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Corporate Budgeting Is Broken--Let's Fix It (Spanish version)
Jensen, Michael C.Article HBS-R0110FLeadership and People ManagementCorporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages line managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and inflating results. And it turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. The sad thing is, budget shenanigans have become so embedded in corporate life that they're accepted as business as usu...Starting at €8.20
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A Different Kind of Partnership: the UK's Ministry of Defence and EDS develop the Joint Personnel Administration Program (JPA)
Kelman, SteveCase HBS-HKS452-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen, in 1997, the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) decided to consolidate the Human Resources systems used by its three military services (Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) into a small number of tri-service ones, it saw the challenge as an IT problem that could be solved through an IT solution. The goal was to increase efficiency and cut costs, and both would be achieved - the MOD thought - by streamlining the more than two hundred customi...Starting at €8.20