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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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