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Understanding Customers Is Everyone's Job

Harvard Business Review

Creating products and services for market segments of one (" mass customization ") isn''t easy. The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. In a previous post , I described how U.K. How, precisely, did they do this?

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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.