That way finance can easily participate in the day-to-day business dialogue: everything from communicating with the sales team about how to structure a deal to intra-team communication about how to handle special transactions.

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The second phase is developing the strategy, creating the organizational structure to support that strategy, getting the right people in the right roles, then putting the intra- and inter-organizational processes in place to be able to implement the strategy.

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