After the fifth call we received this year asking about "best practices" for structuring corporate communications functions, I knew something was up. It appears that chief communications officers across the globe are experiencing somewhat of a "perfect storm" at the moment as they attempt to navigate the following three forces: increasing demand for communications support in the face of the digital revolution, more empowered stakeholders, and heightened public scrutiny of corporate actions; resource constraints as a result of recessionary indicators, ...