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Understanding Customers Is Everyone's Job

Harvard Business Review

The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. They''re using tailored suggestions to drive customer loyalty. How, precisely, did they do this? Creating products and services for market segments of one (" mass customization ") isn''t easy.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.