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Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Using Digital Exhaust to Improve Sales

Harvard Business Review

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. It also allowed organizations to communicate and coordinate more effectively across large sales account teams. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Four Steps to Fixing Your Bad Data

Harvard Business Review

As one might expect, officials are using the error and S&P's earlier failure to properly rate bundled mortgage products to argue that the downgrade is incorrect. But they don't manage them that way. You have to do a lot of things reasonably well (focus, measure, manage processes, eliminate root causes, etc.)