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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. Marketing designs the promotional campaign. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Your R&D group develops a unique new product.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

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Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works

Harvard Business Review

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.