HR Digest

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I Diane Gherson is a trailblazer in introducing agile technologies in human resource processes. The recruitment process has become agile.

Mayo 98

Mayo Human Resources Airlines Agility 98

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

For the dinosaurs, size alone was an advantage in a stable environment, but agility helped the smaller mammals prosper when the asteroid hit. They know they need leaders who are avid and rapid continuous learners because the shelf-life of any particular piece of expertise gets shorter as the pace of technological change accelerates.

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Environment Self-aware Leadership Emotional Intelligence 250

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

But have you thought about the implications of this trend for management practices? new product releases every day, not every year), has caused an increasing pressure on product development in other areas, and on management in general, to change more continuously as well. The rapid pace of change in software (e.g.,

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Let us look at several of them.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. Senior leaders must be ready to open up the flood gates so managers and employees closest to the client interface can surface these tensions and discuss them openly. Digitization vs. Humanization. Entire value chains are being digitized.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8