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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Partnering to venture jointly Here the borders blur further, as independent organizations partner to design, develop, and/or market particular products and services.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Corporations developed large corporate units dedicated to it. Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.”

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