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Reinvent Your Sales Process While Still Hitting Your Numbers

Harvard Business Review

Adapt to the new: Keep innovating. The executives reporting to the CEO have doubled in the past three decades, mostly an increase in functional specialists like CIOs and CMOs, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration [ PDF ]. Those practices were developed at other companies pursuing different strategies.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. It will surely meet resistance.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Innovate more effectively? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities?

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Old concrete parking lots gave way to new green landscapes and a wooded preserve populated with 9,000 indigenous California trees, including ornamental and fruit trees, selected to resist drought and the threat of future climate change. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.