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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business Review

This service, widely offered but rarely used, amounted to iterative looks at companies’ commodity shops (small functional teams that focus on human resource management, equipment maintenance, supplies, and so on). With time saved in managing weapons and equipment, these managers gained time to innovate in other areas.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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