{"id":1675,"date":"2013-02-08T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2013-05-19T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:32:33","slug":"functional-leader-as-new-strategic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-business-transformation-consultants\/functional-leader-as-new-strategic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional leader as new strategic partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38\" alt=\"Change Management\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Functional leader as new strategic partner: delivering not what individual function demands but what enterprise needs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Extract from HBR Blog Network &#8211; Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<p><em>Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&amp;D are forever. Nonetheless, many CEOs and top executives struggle with their functional organizations, and some question whether the established functional model is still relevant. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with \u2014 or not fully supportive of \u2014 the strategic needs of the business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.<br \/>\n<strong>More &#8230;<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/strength_focus_and_corporate_c.html\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/strength_focus_and_corporate_c.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/02\/strength_focus_and_corporate_c.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional leader as new strategic partner: delivering not what individual function demands but what enterprise needs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[40,43,41,42,94,95,70,73,71,72,96,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}