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Entries from June 2009

Article on Global marketing

June 15th, 2009 · Comments Off

We are seeing a number of clients concentrating on building more integrated central functions, Here is an interesting article on different orgnaizations’ experiences in creating a more global marketing organization.
“Paul Polman is the only senior executive to have worked at each of the three biggest consumer-product marketers on Earth in the past five years — [...]

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Creating a more integrated IT function – podcast

June 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

In this podcast Kevan Hall, CEO of Global Integration, discusses Creating a more integrated IT function.
Many organizations are creating increasingly integrated central functions such as IT – driven by globalization, cost savings and the need to share scarce resources more widely across the organization.
But a more complex, more integrated IT function, more complex customers and [...]

icon for podpress  Creating a more integrated IT function - Life in a Matrix Episode 9 [8:37m]: Download

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SHRM Conference & Exposition 2009 New Orleans

June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

We will be exhibiting at the 2009 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans from 28th June to 1st July.
If you would like to meet Kevan Hall, author of Speed Lead and the Life in a Matrix blog or other members of the Global Integration US team Tim Mitchell, [...]

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