Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

They surveyed 1,000 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) members — HR Managers, Directors, and VPs — with an average of 14 years’ experience. And yet that’s how many companies operate. Hiring Human resources' The results? The area of greatest disconnect was in staffing— one of the lynchpins of HR.

Human Resources 11

Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g., But consolidation does not ensure integration.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 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 up-and-comers expected to fill the organization’s top management positions. park troopers/unsplash. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Both companies named leaders from completely different parts of the business as their current heads of People — Apple’s Deidre O’Brien came from Worldwide Sales and Operations and Microsoft’s Kathleen Hogan came from Worldwide Services at Microsoft. Call it baptism by fire. Greater diversity of perspectives.

Company 8

Company Learning-by-Doing Human Capital Report 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Marion Barraud for HBR.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. trillion in 2014 alone. Multinationals once expanded by building a replica of their entire firm in each country where they operated.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Benchmarking seems to assure leaders that as long as their organization’s performance is 50% of the national average or better, things are okay. Radical redesign of care-delivery processes is the only way to change an organization’s expectations. Make it the “model cell” for the entire organization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

He operates in a similar environment, analyzes the same companies in the same sector, and has the same clients. Am I, a 28-year veteran search consultant, confessing my sins and telling you that executives can’t successfully move from one organization to another and so you shouldn’t ever hire from the outside? Of course not.

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How would it be organized and how would it relate to GE’s existing businesses? How would it integrate into the culture of the larger organization? Who would lead it? Where would it be located?

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. You and Your Team Series.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

At such moments, smooth operations and efficient processes are no substitute for an engaged, motivated employee with the instinct to do the right thing. Few organizations master it. Fair pay is the basis for creating an organization where employees feel secure, but of course, it’s not enough. Forgiveness.

Motivation 8

Motivation Brand Hotels Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. In satisfying our demanding customers, were we pushing the organization to the breaking point? We’ve been in HR for a combined total of more than four decades, with multiple organizations, and we’ve been involved in a couple such rollouts.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face. Our human resources department takes care of that. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Technology represents less than 1% of an organization’s pie chart. Do research.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. It takes time to learn how to operate efficiently in a new clinical delivery system, and higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay for locum tenens’ patients could reflect this learning curve. Our study was recently published in JAMA.

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Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8