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What Thought Leaders Are Saying
Business thought leaders and media coverage provide actionable insights on trends that are shaping the future of business – including business network transformation and the future of business practices for a global, networked world.
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Getting Serious About Collaboration: How Companies Are Transforming Their Business Networks
BusinessWeek Research Services conducted an exclusive survey to discover and analyze the views of executives on collaboration with third parties. Find out what researchers discovered about how business network collaboration is impacting these industries.
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Business Network Transformation in Media and Telecommunications
A new source of competitive advantage is emerging in media and
telecommunications. Find out how these companies are transforming their business network of consumers, suppliers, and distributors to better understand and serve end customers.
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Beyond Boundaries: A New Role for Finance in Driving Business Collaboration
CFO Research Services recently conducted research among senior finance executives around the world to examine the role company finance organizations now play in driving business collaboration alliances. Explore why collaboration between finance and other lines of business is becoming more widespread and more important to the overall corporate strategy.
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Survey Shows CEOs Are Making Collaboration a Top Priority
Executives are increasingly turning to collaboration with their business networks as a way to win new markets and address evolving customer needs quickly. Read this BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) study to learn how information technology can play help support increased levels of collaboration with customers, partners, and suppliers.
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Business Network Transformation: IT's Next Great Opportunity to Shine
by Philip Lay and Geoffrey Moore
New research from Philip Lay and Geoffrey Moore offers surprising insights about the ways companies engage in business networks. Learn key findings from their research and details about their new seven-step framework for readying IT infrastructure for the new demands of a networked economy.
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How Business Networks Are Evolving Today
by Philip Lay and Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore is recognized as a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges and has seen how business networks can transform today's businesses. Discover the basic principle of business network transformation, tying together collaborative networks and coordinated networks of global companies.
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Innovating and Creating Value in Your Business Network
by Dr. Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Hear Dr. Henry Chesbrough's research on the connection between business network transformation and the innovation process.
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Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, professor, Harvard Business School
Listen to Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, a widely-known visionary whose Balanced Scorecard concept is used by more than half of Fortune 500 companies, as he discusses how organizations can close the loop between strategy and execution.
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