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The growing importance of the ‘back office’
Organisational Design, Corporate, Back Office, Organisational Change David Schmidtchen 23/10/23 Organisational Design, Corporate, Back Office, Organisational Change David Schmidtchen 23/10/23

The growing importance of the ‘back office’

The fault lines within our administration – the workarounds, the failing systems, the thin capabilities, and the pervasive problems of data integrity and information sharing were all exposed. 

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