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How Telecom Expense Management Benefits Large Scale Enterprises

Strategy Driven

Any organization on a fast growth track often outpaces its strategic technology roll-out plans. This is where telecom expense management companies play a crucial role for your P&L. Technology Asset Management. Telecom and technology billing can read like a foreign language to even the most qualified accounting clerk.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. Inside Intel.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. These are just symptoms, however.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. It also will force the functional service providers to be more market-driven.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls. These 'data hogs' likely have different levels of profit based on their spending patterns beyond data plans (e.g.,

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