HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Work-Life Balance Meaning According to Nancy Lockwood ’s 2003 Research Quarterly for SHRM , a work-life balance can be defined as “A state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” The use of the term can be traced back as far as 1986, but its frequency has multiplied in recent years.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. He adds this: Most companies end up building a system to protect themselves from people who lack judgment. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public. Then the game was on.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? This aims to support employers to embed EDI into decision-making on occupational standards, apprenticeships and technical qualifications and build a skills system that allows everyone, regardless of their background, to access high-quality training.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ I’ll lead well … when “they” get their act together… when “they” fix the problem … when “they” give us a better system. Everything changes. Permanently.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). And one of the principle goals of A.I.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. Systems relying on vital signs rarely meet the third criterion, “new”, which is providing information that is not already known to the physicians and nurses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

All three of those essential components of precision medicine are now being addressed in the Army, using a system called the Behavioral Health Data Portal (BHDP). Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 million to 3.3

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Ducati really personifies this strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. With a quick look at a smartphone, a traveler can easily find a great local store or restaurant option nearby.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

” The robot was a central European system of serfdom — according to the Oxford English Dictionary — abolished in the Austrian Empire in 1848. By 2003, there were 800,000. This includes pre-programmed Twitterbots on the low end and IPSoft’s Amelia artificial intelligence system on the high-end.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

For mission critical systems deployed in nuclear, aerospace, and medical device industries, how we communicate and understand risk could make a lot of difference on planning. In 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan explained that the chance of a radiation related fatality in a Japanese nuclear plant is one per one million years.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” Our reasoning is that the present system fails miserably at distinguishing between large and small risks. The problem with our present warning system is that it shouts “Danger!” Such a system is of little value; people quickly learn to ignore warnings since they encounter vastly more puppies than wolves.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The system must connect the dots horizontally. A system cannot respond effectively when information has to flow up and down hierarchical lines: it is slow, and superiors often suppress the information because they do not see its importance or relevance or don't have time to respond. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Here’s a review of the five core components of resilient systems, which I pulled together for my new book, The Big Pivot , based in part on two other important works: Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back , by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy. billion hit to earnings).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on Toyota's approach to front line improvement). After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. That’s why so many countries are moving ahead with ambitious plans in this sector.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The idea that new technology transforms the way we communicate is not a new one — telephones, e-mails, text messages and tweets have all brought changes to how we express ourselves, how we gather information about others, even to how we think. We already talk through technology; inevitably, we'll be talking to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. Each person who joins becomes a “human node” in the system, and a potential point of vulnerability. You cannot afford defenses that will fully protect you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. But this is rare. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. It implies that TFP driven by innovation and technological progress (independent of foreign investment) accounts for about 5 to 14% of GDP growth.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. Prior to starting his own business in 2003, Gordy was a Vice President and General Manager for Personnel Decisions International and an Associate Professor at the USAF Academy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.". Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

And in addition to tangible assets, one has to think about investments in people, systems, brands, and intangibles. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003. So even in the world of platforms there are speed limits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Instead, why not build a far more distributed energy system? Former CIA director Jim Woolsey likes to point out that a tree branch in Ohio brought the entire Northeast grid down in the summer of 2003. The other major argument for a big distributed energy push is security. Traditional energy is getting harder and more dangerous to find.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

If you can create a data system to give employees quick access to information about products and customers, you can equip them to advise as experts. How could the shopping experience be designed to emphasize your expertise – and get it paid for? The challenge begins with improving staff hiring and training.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. The Rumanians awarded the contract to Firestone. It is a measure of the state of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. The Careful-What-You-Wish-For Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. This was a precarious time. The post-9/11 environment demanded it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. We insisted that the local team follow Yahoo reporting, systems, and governance requirements. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In an essay that was never formally published but became something of a cult favorite among finance professors and some finance practitioners, Asness looked at Cisco Systems and concluded that even if the most optimistic projections about its future growth came true, it was still priced to disappoint current investors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Between 1984 and 2003, this once-popular software application went from 40 features to more than 1500, with 35 tool bars! Amazon’s famous “1-click buying” system materially reduced the buying funnel dropout rates. It’s more important to spend time deciding which features to omit than which to add. Rule 4: Data is your guide.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. By reversing the normal process, we can build standardized systems on a factory-floor with rapid on-site erection. The Use of Available Technology. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf. Data analytics. Turning itself inside out.

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