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ABB is a Swiss-based manufacturer of industrial equipment with annual sales of $30 billion. At one time, its salesforce was organized by product: generators, boilers, transformers, and so forth. Each salesperson was an expert on the product line he or she sold. Then it adopted a customer organizational structure. Why might ABB have made this change?
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