HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An early champion of the Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) gender inclusion program, Chevron recognizes the true power it can have to build self-awareness, foster individual inclusion skills, and sustain a culture of inclusion across the organization. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. He had just scoured the development reports of some 700 individuals in the IT department and found that "not one of them had an ounce of inspiration. But don't take his word for it.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. million.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. We looked to see what we could do to create a work-related development opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. A number of organizations — including the YMCA, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance — provide in-person DPPs at various locations. In addition there are 84.1

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Second, DNA does not change over the life of an organism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. Our findings carry some important implications for individuals and organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. Strengthen the board and develop a kitchen cabinet. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In the past year, there has been a flurry of announcements by international organizations and governments declaring their commitment to making PROs a centerpiece of quality assessment. Since 2002, Dr. Spertus and colleagues have been correlating quality-of-life PRO data with treatment outcomes for heart failure and stroke.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Craft unions and other skilled labor organizations also seem destined to bring badging to their memberships. Individual empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

While it can be taken for granted within families, that’s not true of most organizations. “If In November 2002, the Chinese government found that a large number of people had been afflicted with atypical pneumonia in Guangdong Province. Ever wondered what makes collaboration seem so natural at home but unnatural at work?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

While you need no credentialing to be a coach, you will find no shortage of organizations willing to sell you their certifications. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. The rest is splitting hairs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. Most industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

“You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology — it’s not only a great tool for democratization, but it’s a great tool for eliminating prejudice.” pm images/Getty Images. of employment in those occupations in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. by Hank Moore. Running the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The man was in the mood for a monologue, which I have organized by topic. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. They are not.

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