The life of an organization is a series of complex transaction costs, and sometimes you just have to squelch enthusiastic innovation, promise a CEO an obscene golden parachute and banish the thought of ever putting shrimp salad on the menu because, if you happen to be McDonalds, you could endanger an entire species.

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Additionally, this restructuring helps us reduce costs and streamline the organization as a continuation of the activities we began earlier this year.

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However the finance organization typically finds it difficult to justify maintenance costs of the millions of lines of legacy code (read past).

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Costs slip through the cracks, and an organization never gets a holistic view of its expenses.

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They had been writing for an organization called openDemocracy.net throughout the war about the humanitarian costs of the war in Iraq.

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This reminds us of what every service organization and retailer should keep in mind: a smile costs nothing.

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To appreciate the costs of inadequate coordination, consider the case of Airbus, where, for historical reasons, different parts of the organization long did things their own way.

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