Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. In addition, they possess two key traits: Deep operational experience. But I've found that it does. Selflessness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. Sometimes strategic shifts are driven by external events, such as the post 9/11 environment or the onset of the Great Recession in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We But it's also unusual.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

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.

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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.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The key is to develop determination and commitment for the process. Adjust the established principles as insights from the review process indicated.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? Most boards underestimate the concept of change management and the science behind human behavioral change. That process, and the results created by going through that process, can be difficult to quantify for board members.

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Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Far too often, leaders who are closing or shrinking an operation take the old tough guy approach. One of them, Accellent, a supplier of precision components for medical devices, had to close a plant in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2008. In some cases, that might mean keeping an operation open longer than you initially wanted.

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

What better moment to re-read "Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work," which was originally published in 1994 and reprinted as a "classic" in 2008. Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, and Operations—at least—need to be involved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The end to America being a manufacturing powerhouse began during the recession of 2008. Don’t make this a human resource exercise. Don’t let this become a “check the box to keep human resources happy” exercise. Do a “values check” as part of the interview process. But there was. And they never came back.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2011

By applying the right people, processes and technology to those three focus areas, HPM can empower companies to execute a powerful business strategy that can reduce healthcare costs while also improving employees’ health outcomes. Self-insurance recently has become the option of choice for a majority of the workforce.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

The HR Digest: By creating a purpose-driven culture with a tall order goal such as achieving a “smoke- free future,” Philip Morris International (PMI) has found itself in a constant process of cognitive transformation. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. And it’s a key focus for us.

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