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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Thus, the term “customer” can mean a potential buyer to the marketing department, the person who signed the purchase order to sales, and the legal entity that it bills to accounting. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We But why not?