HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. During this time of disruption, governments, societies, and organizations around the world are navigating with great caution, care, and agility. Before COVID-19, many organizations could effortlessly retain and reward their people.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. By 2020, they aspire to have a global workforce where 40% of management and higher-level roles are held by women and a U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. Upskilling, in the end, should be a team sport, one even where employees support one another in their mutual goals to advance their skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal. TOSHINORI TARUI/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. In a study conducted with Google Europe , Roland Berger assessed the digital maturity of French companies, looking into three distinct dimensions: equipment, practices and uses, and organization and skills. What are the organization’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The concept is fairly straightforward: The parties define the result up front, agree on a baseline, work out how confident the organization is in delivering the result, and then specify the expectation and payment in the contract. There are management tools and incentives in place to encourage a focus on results and the end goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

ZB by 2020. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. In fact, it is doubling every 14 months and it will reach 10.5

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2020. Why do so many organizations, teams, couples, families, and groups who should be working together end up wasting energy on unproductive conflict? Humanocracy : Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. By 2020, half of all travelers will be Millennials. The goal was to move fast to get the most important features into the hands of guests or hotel staff early enough to get feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

As a leader, you have an opportunity to model behavior in a meaningful way and facilitate appropriate boundary setting for your team members and your organizations’ employees. A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

tools inside the organization, but the list is short for companies that are using them for increased business results. One of the biggest barriers to social collaboration is a disconnect between aspirations to become collaborative and the reality of being a closed organization. And, once it is built, they have a stake in its success."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Her goal with Calidad de Vida had been to create an alternative to the traditional nursing home, a place where seniors of varying disabilities could come for the day and be rehabilitated through individually tailored activities. We all know the demographics — an estimated 9 million people over 65 in Spain by 2020. Diana asked. "I

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

also committed to 100 percent renewables by 2020 (Disclosure: I’m on advisory boards for both RE100 and for Unilever U.S.). the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. Unilever U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

trillion by 2020, and $3.5 To answer these questions, we began with a simple premise: Neither “smartness” nor the technology to be deployed is the end goal. Given the large number of indicators analyzed, we organized them so that each indicator could be classified under one of 12 broad benchmark components.

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