HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The HR Digest talked to Quita Highsmith to discuss the essential role of HR in building a culture of agility, innovation, and engagement. After hiring an employee , we invest in them to ensure that their skills are being developed so they can have a long, successful career here at Genentech. In 2020 alone, Genentech gave $6.3M

Pharmaceuticals 52

Pharmaceuticals Industry Diversity Career 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

First, as a leader of a team, department or business unit with people, budgets and resources under your control, you must follow through on organizational commitments. This involves two elements. Unfortunately, people don't always do what they promise. Transparent decision making is critical to empowering your people.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. Design leadership career paths around a few diversified, not targeted, experience requirements.

Leadership 392

Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

So marketers must develop the same mind-set and skills that allow agile tech and product-development teams to manage complex projects with many unknowns and moving parts. Many marketers have built their careers on following a series of highly detailed plans based on copious data. Agility doesn’t come naturally.

Agility 8

Agility Marketing Advertising How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Just as organizational leaders have recognized their increased dependence on temporary external talent in tech and many other areas, a rapidly advancing number of professionals—in a broadening range of fields—have chosen to pursue a career as agile talent. Agile is different. How to Cool Down a Heated Negotiation.

Agility 8

Agility Tips Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Over 200 publicly listed American companies have R&D budgets that exceed $100 million annually. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? Companies successful in global engineering ensure enough executive mindshare and budget for these activities.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. They want a better understanding of the motivations of employees, many of whom are in new and evolving roles, or are from a generation with significantly different career motivations and expectations.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

How do we reduce the performance drag of top-heavy management structures, replace "manager-management" with a more agile self- or peer-management, and create a vibrant social system in the process? It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They can get “lost” in the system and have to deal with more politics and tight budgets.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. Known for walking out of long meetings to make sales calls, he shortened IBM's two-month annual budget process to six days. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

” But the good news is that we are not helpless, says Susan David, a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching and author of Emotional Agility. “You don’t get to have to have a meaningful career, raise a family, lead, or make changes in an organization without some level of stress.”

Stress 12

Stress How To Project Construction 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

We set out to change how the department thought about and treated talent through the full career cycle of our uniformed and civilian personnel, from their recruitment through their training, advancement, retention, and retirement. And employers around the country now sing the praises of their veteran employees.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Extend the insights beyond talent acquisition decisions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The two men went way back.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Digital CMOs are agile marketers who embrace the mantra “test and fail to learn and scale.” Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade. of marketing spend.

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8