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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing

Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. Typically an in-house cost center, service is usually viewed as a necessary evil and constantly targeted for "efficiency." And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers.

Participative

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center

Leadership Digital

Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

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