Part II

The Right Conversations

We have explored how to wire the right connections with smart design decisions about structure, roles, and networks. The purpose of these connections is to foster the right conversations that are critical to strategy execution. We have chosen to characterize the second column in our activation framework as a set of conversations to emphasize the importance of interaction within the connection points between global businesses, functions, and regional operating units. All organizational structures create boundaries. This allows for clarity and focus. However, in the global operating model the most pressing challenges and opportunities span boundaries, and it is the push and pull of ideas at the boundaries that often ...

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