Chart Your Course

MARCH 29, 2016

Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2014 that the median number of years workers had been with their current employer was 4.6 Providing staff with a device like the Apple iPhone 5c also allows them to download productivity apps that help them stay organized and get work done more efficiently.

Survey 100

Survey Mentor Policies Loyalty 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

That tenure came to an end in 2014 when Heinz decided to mothball the factory and put 740 people out of work. Heinz Company who erected a factory in Leamington in 1908. And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA.

Retail 100

Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Working directly with our human resources department, we launched a remote work pilot for our team of 35 employees. In its 2014 survey on workplace flexibility, the Society for Human Resource Management found that one-third of companies participating in the survey saw a decrease in absenteeism after they implemented flex-time policies.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Stress Human Resources 12

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. You must appeal to all of these audiences. Describe the scope of your therapeutic expertise and research, AND your corporate results.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2014

Human resource departments offer these as a means to recruit the best students from the top schools. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. They allow you to see what it’s actually like to work in the field you think you want to work in – or you may realize that you hate it and that it’s not for you.

How To 58

How To Competitive Advantage Open-book Career 58

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. A seminal work in this area is Frank Schmidt’s meta-analysis of a century’s worth of workplace productivity data, first published in 1998 and recently updated. The results?

Human Resources 14

Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Clearly define roles and responsibilities among marketing, customer service, public relations, sales, corporate communication, human resources, etc.

Media 8

Media Marketing Software Human Resources 8

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 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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

DECEMBER 7, 2015

A 2014 Gallup survey of U.S. Though human resource management has typically used compensation schemes or employee stock ownership and option plans to promote feelings of ownership, other techniques, such as increasing one’s connection to objects at work, may be equally likely to elicit a sense of ownership.

How To 8

How To Participative Survey Human Resources 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This is available to citizens under the Oregon Family Leave Act and has been in effect since 2014. While there is no single standard for bereavement leave, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) study indicated that employers offered the most number of days for the death of a spouse or child, averaging around four days.

Policies 52

Policies Organization Follow-up Report 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Studies of people with and without views of nature – as opposed to either no views, or views of built environments – have found that a view of nature makes workers less frustrated, more patient, more productive, and physically healthier. Workspaces Productivity' But an open office has downsides. Provide loud spaces, too.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Environment Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Silver Star, the second-largest soccer ball production firm in town, with over 2,000 employees, learned about the die almost immediately, and by March 2014 was using it for all of its pentagon cutting. If practices like Silver Star’s really are good for productivity and innovation, won’t companies adopt them on their own?

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2018

during the summer of 2014. Likewise, frequently changing work schedules may disrupt precarious travel arrangements for otherwise productive workers. These companies clearly believe that the benefits of these services for employee productivity and retention outweigh the significant cost of running a bus system.

Transportation 12

Transportation Management Benchmarking Comparison 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. Functions such as human resources can use self-service digital platforms and intranets to provide consistency on overarching issues while regional managers control decisions such as hiring. Sharpen product strategies for a more digitally connected world. Understand the new competitive landscape.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

In 2014, their median hourly wages were $10.30 In 2014, the median age of a retail salesperson was 35. If retailers want to thrive by offering better jobs, they will need to change their operations strategy from one that uses people as interchangeable parts to one that is human-centered. According to the U.S.

Retail 8

Retail Operations Price Merchandising 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. Since 2014, Genesys has graduated nearly 70 associates from the United States, Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, and South America. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

New research by my colleagues and I (forthcoming in Human Resource Management ) demonstrates a clear relationship between physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposive – to use Caspersen and colleagues’ seminal definition of exercise – and one’s ability to manage the intersection between work and home.

Stress 15

Stress Constraint Short-term Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. The value of a board’s active engagement in innovation can well be seen at Diebold, a $3 billion-company whose 16,000 employees make ATMs and a host of related products. More blog posts by Michael Useem , Dennis Carey and Ram Charan. An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Overall marijuana sales in states where cannabis is legal could double in 2014 to hit $3 billion, according to our estimates, as Colorado and Washington begin selling cannabis to adults 21 and over. Hundreds of millions of additional dollars are being spent on professional services, ancillary products and other offerings.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Since my book on this topic came out in 2014, one of the questions I’ve been asked the most is: “How can investors or customers identify which companies in a particular industry are following a good jobs strategy? The score is a combination of three components: customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and productivity.

Retail 8

Retail Operations Depreciation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Talent is much less portable than what we think because performance isn’t just one P; it stems from five — processes, platforms, products, people, and politics – and most of those you can’t take with you. Hiring Human resources Managing people' Talent and the New World of Hiring. An HBR Insight Center.

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

trillion in 2014. “The MROI of social media activity often looks very high if you only count financial resources, but if you look at the human resources required to develop content and respond to consumers’ posts 24/7, the number goes down,” she says. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR.

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. In-N-Out Burger.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Fact 6: The lowest number of women in leadership roles are in the consumer products, transportation services, computer software, technology, chemicals, energy and utilities, construction, industrial manufacturing and automotive and transport industries (15 to 30 percent of leaders are women). 2014) Womenomics 4.0: Goldman Sachs.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

PAMF created a similar central improvement office staffed by experts knowledgeable in the principles and tools of the Toyota Production system method. The expansion, which took three years and affected several hundred beds, required a full-time manager with assistance from the education department and human resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. Traditional leaderboards are, in fact, counter-productive," Sanders says. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc. Deloitte is well on its way to staying ahead of the trend.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Video Training Audience 9

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. Our human resources department takes care of that. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Learn to live with it.

Budgeting 75

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. Labor productivity increased by 5%, in an industry where productivity grew by only 2.5% per year between 1987 and 2014. So more stable scheduling is feasible, and holds the potential for improved sales and productivity. The results were striking.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Both Wall Street and Madison Avenue have run out of patience for niche ad technologies that are product features masquerading as point solution companies. We’ll see industry consolidation continue in 2014 and witness the rise of open platforms that will make media planning and buying a whole lot simpler for all involved.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9