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.

Environment 250

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

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Just as Southwest Airlines, for instance, has a low cost, point-to-point operating model that disrupted its hub-and-spoke competitors, Amazon has a radically different and better operating model that will crush any competitors who are making one change in nine weeks, while it is making changes every eleven seconds.

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Organic growth depends on discovering breakthrough ideas, leveraging technology, and getting closer to customers. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. For example, when Hess Corporation launched its 2020 Change Initiative, CEO John Hess challenged his entire leadership team to come up with solutions that would make the company more agile, cost conscience, and faster at decision making.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8