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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

Running a commercial business is a multifaceted endeavor, fraught with challenges and variables that can influence success. In the commercial world, factors ranging from sudden disasters to evolving market trends play a crucial role in shaping the business landscape. Equally important is training and development.

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You've Been Reorganized. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). There is no such thing as a "perfect" structure. The challenge is to make the structure work — regardless of its flaws.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.