Get things done with Smaller Teams

MIT Sloan contends here that an important executive goal in most large companies is to improve efficiency and effectiveness. With top-line revenue growth elusive in most markets, a key way to increase returns to shareholders is to boost the bottom line — and that means stepping up productivity. These gains need to come from improving the processes that run the company as well as those that change it. Followingly, here are ten ways smaller, more agile teams can achieve greater productivity for the organization…

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