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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

A second paper from IESE, which was published last year , provides some guidance on how to overcome these challenges. The researchers interviewed over 120 chief innovation officers to understand how they engage with startups in their organization, together with some of the challenges they face. Successful partnerships.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 My favorite: HR as a cost center.   Mary Lorenz, The Hiring Site : How to Reignite the Flame with Burned Out Employees - If you have not noticed, a growing number of employees have begun to feel burned out and jaded about coming to work each day.  My favorite: HR as a cost center.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Why is this? Mainly because, as Marc Andreessen puts it, " software is eating the world."

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Google's CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great

Harvard Business Review

The standard approach is to apply tough cost control. That generally means that front line, in many cases, are the lowest cost of labor, who are generally working off a well-scripted common recipe of how to provide tech support. The changing demographics of the workforce are one thing that every CIO has to wrestle with.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. IT can transform itself from "we build everything" to "here's how to build it," and thus be viewed as a competency center focused not on technology, but on process creation and refinement.

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A Jobs Manifesto for Young Europe (and the Rest of the World)

Harvard Business Review

Government in its entirety is a cost-center to society, so we desperately need to create not just jobs, but private sector jobs. The challenge really isn't finding an employer to give you a job — rather it's how to monetize your skills. That means that the jobs you can get may not be like the jobs you had.

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Offshore Centers Can Offer More than Low Costs

Harvard Business Review

Making this happen is challenging, and it requires a disciplined set of practices and a new mindset in how to deploy these critical capabilities. But we also found that they're helping to deliver superior customer experience, by providing consumer insights and decision support to product managers, and are orienting operations to grow revenue.