HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

Digital adoption and transformation is a key development for most organizations in their strategic goals. According to Deloitte’s 2017 Human Capital Trends report: ‘ It’s about HR teams taking up the dual challenge of transforming HR operations on the one hand, and transforming the workforce and the way work is done on the other. ’

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

To survive and prosper in 2017, companies must adopt a way of managing that is based on their capacity to learn and change—consciously, continuously, and quickly. Place a premium on exemplary performance in all dimensions: quality, productivity, service, and value. Guest post from Michael G.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

Guest post from Bob Kulhan : Most of us aspire to be great leaders—passionate, inspiring, thoughtful and productive. Then reapply the critical thinking skills in a separate convergent thinking phase, as you drive toward a productive outcome. IMPROV CORRECTIVE: Set the ego aside. Improv is by nature about failure and evolution.

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Leading with Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In 2017, The Ken Blanchard Companies, in partnership with Training Magazine , surveyed 1,300 people about teams and team leadership. Without a shared or common purpose and clear goals, the team will not get very far. Clarity on why and how the team is working together sets the foundation for progressing on their goals.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Organizations are shaped as much by the personalities of their leaders as by product innovations, marketing prowess, or technical ingenuity, yet identifying personality attributes that promote or inhibit organizational effectiveness has been an elusive goal, despite the existence of assessment centers and executive coaching.

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Leadership Teamwork Executive Coaching Delegation 70

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 8, 2020

The article highlighted the tremendous benefit society can derive if male and female entrepreneurship rates were equalized, and indeed the World Bank attempted to assist that when it launched a $1 billion fund back in 2017 to increase the number of businesses created and run by women.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Collaborator : Embraces teamwork, synchronizes efforts, shares tasks and goals. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In reading through this month’s submissions, I see many interesting concepts and multiple strategies for being more productive and satisfied at work. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 16 Ways to Improve Your Work Performance in 2017.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2018

Innovate Mundane Tasks. Upgrade your technology, innovate repetitive tasks and always be thinking about how to make your environment more engaging for your staff. Set a goal to bring everyone together once a month or quarter and notice how much better everyone starts working together. Assign Coaches or Mentors.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

According to Forbes’ analysis on Cone Communications’ 2017 CSR Study , letting employees lead around social and environmental sustainability issues from within helps a company evolve into a true leader. If a company seeks to achieve some sort of social, environmental or economic development goal, philanthropy won’t cut it alone.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

It’s a sure sign that the products or services that you are offering are quality and that you are providing customer satisfaction. When your operational and back office processes are aligned you work efficiently and productively. Here are 5 signs that you are ready to expand: 1. You have a loyal customer base. You identify gaps.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2017

Often, these difficult periods are caused by bad business conditions such as low sales, a lack of morale, low funds, and the loss of innovation and dedication. To make determining what the problem is easier, here are some areas to focus on: strategy, customers, team members, products/services, and finance. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

I have previously made the case that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the potential to provide, for the first time, a framework for mobilizing companies to invest in sustainable development in an ongoing and scalable way, while also pursuing their own business interests. Some goals may be too broad or too distant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Innovation at GE was on a roll. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Jeff was the head of sales for a company whose product was, more or less, impossible to sell. In January 2017 alone , investors withdrew $13.6 Jeff was facing ridiculous odds even if his only goal was to keep cash from flowing out of Golden Global’s investments. But that wasn’t his goal. By $2 billion.

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How To Globalization Learning-by-Doing Goal 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

This is because many fundamentally mismanage the growth gap, which is the difference between their growth goals and what their base businesses can deliver. Filling the gap requires either innovative new offerings or acquisitions. They show enough promise that they will become mainstay core products in the next 12 months or so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2017, three minutes after the day opened at midnight, $1.5 It’s amazing when you think that VISA’s stated capacity as of August 2017 was 65,000 payments per second globally. Data intelligence is what I call this business capability of effectively iterating products and services according to consumer activity and response.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

No longer is it good enough to simply offer good value or a great product alone. In fact, the Conference Bard CEO Challenge 2017 survey shows that CEOs clearly understand the need to be more customer-centric: “Today, companies compete as much on customer experience as they do on product and price.”

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Content Learning-by-Doing Short-term Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Product: mechanical vs. interactive. Services: offline vs. online.

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Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2017, the number of breaches is anticipated to rise by 36%. Despite increased spending and innovation in the cybersecurity market, there is every indication that the situation will only worsen. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Cybersecurity can cause organizational migraines. This new threat landscape is changing the security game.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods.

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Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Introducing a new product is essentially an exercise in persuading people to change their behavior. A new form of social data that harnesses the power of peer pressure is emerging as a potentially powerful way to change behavior and spur the growth of new categories of products. Innovation Marketing' Persuading with Data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This set into motion a cycle of innovation and transformation that has touched nearly every business in the world in some way or another. To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. Steven Moore for HBR. Insight Center. Think about Airbnb.

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Strategy Metrics Forrester Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Companies and global governing bodies set visionary global goals. Goals matter. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. And we’ve seen a lot of them this year.

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Critics questioned Hyundai’s decision to spend $5 million to advertise the $15 million donated to its Hope on Wheels program in 2017 (although in fairness, it has donated $130 million over its 20-year history). The ultimate goal should be for all employees to find meaning in their daily work. Stephen Smith for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By June, all SBMs except Hawaii’s had reached that goal. We also must reduce spending on our exchange by almost 80% between state fiscal years 2015 and 2017. Fostering innovation.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Organizations can leverage other core goals to motivate reform.

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Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. Here are some of our initial findings, drawn from the study, “Digital Planet 2017: How Competitiveness and Trust in Digital Economies Vary Across the World.”

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Since 2017, this program has reached 2,500 mid-senior grade employees, with 93% participants stating it enabled them to improve their leadership skills and have a positive impact on their teams. All of this enabled through our technology and the passion and expertise of our employees.

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