Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

Since the 1980s, most global companies have developed diversity and inclusion policies led by human resources. The most frequent include: assessment tools (climate surveys, statistics monitoring, minority targets), human resources programs (flexible policies, mentoring or coaching), communication campaigns, and training programs.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Policies Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. And a pool of independent and highly skilled workers who can fill those needs is growing.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But not at IBM.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The result of poor culture fit due to turnover can cost an organization between 50-60% of the person’s annual salary, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). This would be a key signal of culture fit. Pay attention to the candidate’s comfort level and gather feedback from staff.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Environment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

tire manufacturer, which implemented a new order fulfillment process in 2005. My consultant friends Steve Cantrell and Sharol Henry were hired to work with them on changes to managers' roles caused by the new process. But process change can engage the front line and be fast. Consider what happened at a major U.S.

Participative 8

Participative Learning-by-Doing Operations Process 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they? If [technically] tweaking a process or program empowers three people to do the work of five, then tweakonomics is the way to go. Economy Hiring Human resources'

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. IT also upgraded old technology and processes, achieving significant improvements in service and compliance.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

.” There is a virtuous cycle between productivity and people: Higher levels of productivity allow society to reinvest in human capital (most obviously, though not exclusively, via higher wages), and smart investments result in higher labor productivity. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

The standard ball design combines hexagons and pentagons, cut from rectangular sheets of artificial leather called rexine, which is by far the most expensive material in the process. With the minimum-wage guarantee, workers had little reason to fear the new dies and helped in the process of implementing them.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Day one of the 100-day planning process was a particularly somber one. As Rob Clarke, head of Human Resources for London 2012, said, "We hope a legacy of our Games will be to create a more sustainable model for hosting the Games."

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Some large employers are doing this: They have used their purchasing power to engage their major providers and health plans to join them in a collaborative process aimed at eliminating waste. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Insight Center. Purchase quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

I worked with my manager as well as our HR team to ensure they were in the loop and could provide me with support through the process. After more than eight years of varying meds, I know how easily a small med change can descend into a spiral up, a spiral down, or, on special occasions, both. I assumed I was as prepared as I could be.

Presenteeism 8

Presenteeism Report Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. If they are too good at what they do, they grow so fast that they don’t have time to look at their processes even if they repeat the same mistakes again and again.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2012

Employee turnover is not a single event ; it is really a process of disengagement that can take days, weeks, months, or even years. That means that company with three hundred employees, an average employee salary of $35,000, and a voluntary turnover rate of 15 a year is losing $1,575,000 per year in turnover costs alone.

Survey 55

Survey Open-book Welch Books 55

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

As these managers start to concern themselves with broad strategic issues and organizational change processes, lateral relationships with people outside their immediate area become even more critical to the manag­ers’ ability to get things done. 2 (2005): 447–504. 5827 (2007): 1036–1039.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

As we define it, scaling is the process of expanding primary care services to serve more people , with the aim of increasing health impact. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values. We’ve found that you can’t create a culture just through values, new processes, or an organizational restructure.

Technology 8

Technology Company Tools Information 8