Furthermore, innovative business models have shifted to include corporate volunteer programs to help support core business functions.

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That strategy must be market-focused, not just product-focused, and it must be integrated with other core business functions.

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True social businesses take the same level of openness and transparency used externally and apply them internally to improve their core daily business functions.

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And this new department would consolidate the core business and trade functions of six agencies.

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More than one out four of the 1, 364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact, already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions.

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In most cases the core business value chain will need to be opened up by mobile-enabling legacy enterprise applications, transactions, and databases to make core functions available on which to build a set of new mobile-friendly business functions.

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It is a very stable and growing business, as the trend toward outsourcing non-core functions continues.

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