The happy outcome: a number of excitingly fresh and yet feasible ideas for the core team to build into their planning cycle.

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Recently Baidu announced that it will hire 30 software engineers in the United States, and this group will probably be the core team for developing search engines in other languages.

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Appirio worked with Barry and his core sales operations team for managing the salesforce.com environment and doing the analytics, with the IT department for device management, with the marketing team for content creation and porting, and with the regional sales directors to drive adoption, use, and collaboration.

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For the Grove app, Phunware tasked a program manager and a core team to focus on its design, meeting with Caruso twice a week to stay on point.

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As a result, companies should focus on the following core areas: Leadership, Processes, Project Management and (in some cases) Cultural Awareness for all team members.

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