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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In the end, Manchester City collected the points easily enough but they certainly did not have things all their own way.

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When Alan Mulally became boss of an ailing Ford Motor Company in 2006 one of the first things he did was demand that his executives own up to their failures.

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