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Cross-functional Team: Composition, Benefits, and Good Practices

Existek

Have you thought about the concept of a cross-functional team? What differentiates it from setting up traditional teams? How can it improve the software development process? In this article, we’ll discuss the characteristics of a cross-functional team, the benefits of having one, and how to build and manage such a team.

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6 Defining Values of a Leadership Culture

N2Growth Blog

Surveys were built for mass production, not carefully and strategically customized for unique cultures. Why should the 8-year old, first generation, 88-person software development company in San Diego expect to have the same desired culture as the 48-year old, 3rd generation, 268-person manufacturing company in Rochester, NY?

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PEAK Leadership

CO2 Business Leadership

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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PEAK Leadership

CO2 Business Leadership

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

You can read the details on them in the linked articles, but in short, data warehouses are mostly used to store structured data and enable business intelligence , while data lakes support all types of data and fuel big data analytics and machine learning. So here are some of the reasons control towers are actually being developed.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. Teaching-Training.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Failing to emphasize training. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning.

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