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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business Review

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine. The finance group scrutinizes capital requests.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.