HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

Amidst the trending technological advances reshaping what we know as work, government policies and employee increasing expectations biting more deeply recently due to talent drought, the ultimate focus of every organization are how these factors and more can be engineered to effectively achieve a sustainable future.

Brand 66

Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

This means a leader must be well informed about emerging trends and developments in multiple areas that affect the business. Thus, two leaders operating with different sets of distinctions may come to widely varying interpretations of the future based on the same factual evidence. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Chief Executive Officer 51

Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

Selfless service is a mentality that leads to a trend in behavior. That trend in behavior, assuming it is consistent, shows both honor and integrity. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Another example: I had an opportunity for a first-class ticket on a business trip to Vegas where my team was flying coach.

Development 60

Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 60

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

As I described in my 2014 and 2015 reports, for two years running, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed: 35% of organizations officially allowed it and 20% did not officially allow it but acknowledged its existence. It’s also more common among the high performers in that category. BYOA showed a different pattern.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

3% of those polled (57 million individuals at the time of the study) admitted to intentionally ramming another vehicle (AAA 2014). Workplaces are buffered from some societal trends, but they are not immune. Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. Alston, the UN Study). It is hilarious.

How To 106

How To Bond Positioning Stress 106

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The seminar was very well attended by over 20 senior and junior members of the chamber, all of whom were intrigued by the vast network of managers, the support provided to members by the CMI as well as the learning opportunities ( which current members can access now by logging in ).

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions.

Policies 8

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. Overall, business R&D increased by 67% between 2003 and 2014. In 2014, the hundred U.S. Nonetheless, U.S. data show something similar.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This plot suggests that the first quarter is pretty mundane; except for 2014, performance is tightly contained in a 91 to 93 band. There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.” 2014 is the new normal. We started a new trend in 2014 and should expect to see similar gains in 1Q15.”

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

Mass Marketing 13

Mass Marketing Technology Contract Manufacturing Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. at the forefront. This year, for example, the U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Policies Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. The result? Great short-term gains but long-term prospects that are far less compelling.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. With HPs projects running on annually approved operating budgets and constant executive turnover, many corporations simply can’t be trusted to invest in innovation over the long haul it requires.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. But the date on it was from 2014. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. You Can Learn and Get Work Done at the Same Time.

CEO 8

CEO COO Learning-by-Doing Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. The rise of convenience store chains is another big trend in the UK.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. To reverse this trend, we need to simplify the ways we approach innovation in 2014 – by better defining what it is (and isn’t), what it takes to carry it out, and what is needed to enable truly new thinking to thrive.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This plot suggests that the first quarter is pretty mundane; except for 2014, performance is tightly contained in a 91 to 93 band. There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.” “We started a new trend in 2014 and should expect to see similar gains in 1Q15.” They are not.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Trends Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. It was by thinking bigger and acting bolder that we developed and launched our Global Climate Commitment in 2014.

Goal 13

Goal Strategy Company Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. A new trend is established programs pivoting away from the accelerator model and label. Finally, besides the emergence of many new programs, 2014 also saw the demise of many existing programs, some top-rated in the past.

Finance 8

Finance Entrepreneur Survey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators. These trends are not limited to customers.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

” Fast culture is the realm of trendspotters/coolhunters, who monitor social data to find hourly trends and the new lingo of the month. So a move that looked like hopping on a trend bandwagon was actually the result of a slower process of observation and innovation. The nature of slow innovation poses challenges, however.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 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

MARCH 10, 2016

More granularly, the data are tentative but trending: for example, the average proportion of foreign employees within a start-up is 29% for the top 20 innovation ecosystems surveyed. from 2012 to 2014. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. This is happening in a country where online vendors largely operate on a cash-on-delivery (COD) basis. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based The current turmoil in China will most likely accelerate the trend to near-shoring, but the impact will vary by specific industry and company. While 33.6% of respondents stated that they were “considering” bringing manufacturing back to the United States, 15.3%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Although the impact of each company’s decision is small, this cumulative trend contributes to the growing inequality of wealth and the stagnation of middle-class earnings, reinforcing the deeply entrenched poverty of nearly 50 million Americans. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. But companies in this state often face increasing pressure to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs in their legacy businesses, and this pressure attracts opportunistic disruptors.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. and EU sanctions in response to the government’s mounting human rights abuses.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Those trends dictate different choices for a labor intensive retailer (who should choose Mexico or Turkey), a capital-intensive construction company (pick Indonesia or Turkey), and a high-value manufacturer that needs skilled labor (Nigeria may be the best bet). Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8