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Collaborative working

One area I often discuss when teaching the CIM Chartered Postgraduate Diploma, especially the Emerging Themes unit, is collaboration between competing organisations to develop products. The reason for doing this is to save costs on areas where differentiation is not important and no advantage will be gained by any party involved but cost saving can […]

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Signs of recovery? Or not?

There are two interesting, but possibly contrasting, stories are in the news today from the motor industry in terms of the economic situation and how it is affecting two companies. Firstly, the good news comes from GM who have decided not to sell their European business due to “an improving business environment for GM over […]

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