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5 Ways in Which Outsourcing is Leading Today’s Companies to Massive Growth

Strategy Driven

Today it is possible to hire an accounting service in New York City, for example, when your base of operations is in Portland, Oregon. Whether you are looking for a marketing strategist or a corporate accountant, this company offers services in the cloud that are both cost and time effective. Top Talent within Easy Reach.

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Citigroup: A Symbol of Board Resurgence?

Harvard Business Review

But the tactics surrounding the decision should not obscure the potential importance of the decision itself. A minority, however, has said such CEO separations are invariably messy, bringing to mind Lady MacBeth's advice to her husband about murdering the king: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well, It were done quickly.".

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

Digital processes, applied to the same old tactics, simply exacerbate the same old problems. The digital landscape does make the bankruptcy of the corporate model all the more apparent. But it only makes the ROA problem worse: companies end up burdened with more unspent cash and a bigger block of dead, unproductive assets.