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The Secrets to Building a Wildly Profitable Organization

Strategy Driven

It all boiled down to the fact that one CEO knew how to create and leverage a talent-centric organization (TCO). You can have the same success with your company by learning these five secrets to building a wildly profitable organization (hint: they all build a TCO, too).

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Procurement's Best-Priced Deal May Stifle Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In the same way that acquisitive organizations have become more savvy about TCO — Total Cost of Ownership — they should rethink TCP: the Total Cost of Procurement. It's leadership. Every single innovation conversation I've had recently with business unit leaders, product managers and/or marketing executives invariably focuses on the importance of partnership and collaboration with their best suppliers and vendors.