Can Companies Share One Nervous System?

摘要

Companies have long formed alliances and joint ventures.rnRecently, they've come together to swap employees, a practice Google and Procter & Gamble have experimented with to share expertise. The next wave could bern"federations." In such arrangements, companies can exchange much more than their knowledge, profits, or workers. They share access to parts of their info tech systems. Today the practice is common between such business partners as employers and their 401 (k) providers.