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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Production performance.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. The productivity gain from ICT in Africa is unprecedented, and unlike other transformative technologies, like the steam engine and aircrafts, ICT remains a low-hanging application that the locals could participate in on the creative side.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Think of compensation and benefits policies, product design standards, quality assurance methods, fraud reporting procedures, financial reporting systems, and the like.