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How to build a successful product development strategy

IBM Services

A finely tuned product development strategy is a holistic, cross-collaborative endeavor with the capacity to help any organization weather unforeseen events or market changes. The relentless pace of technological advances can mean even the most innovative start-up finds a once-successful product suddenly out-performed or obsolete.

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Horizontal vs. Vertical Integration: A Comprehensive Guide

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. This led to a series of successful animated films under the joint banner, such as “Up,” “WALL-E,” and “Inside Out.” How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend.

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Outsourcing: Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices

SIG Speaks

Even research and development activities of automobile companies or even defense sectors have adopted outsourcing for their critical tasks. We will look into the nature of outsourcing projects in terms of relations management, the advantages/ disadvantages of outsourcing, and best practices for collaboration.

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Why Finance Leaders Should Care About Procurement and Finance Alignment

Planergy Software

Even though the finance department is responsible for all company expenditures, in many cases they have been informed about expenses after the fact, often resulting in overspending and out-of-control expenses. Purchase orders also root out inefficiencies, by helping to clarify what has been ordered, and can even specify the delivery date.

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