Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Many large and successful manufacturing companies are feeling the threat from software and online competitors, both big companies like Google or Amazon as well as startups allying with longstanding manufacturing competitors. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry.

Morale 11

Morale Metrics Motivation Venture Funding 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. As he concludes his career, he leaves his successor, Virginia Rometty, with an iconic giant poised to dominate its industry for decades to come.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

When freelancing is your primary source of income, you have to be meticulous and organized about keeping your books, according to Jon Younger, the founder of the Agile Talent Collaborative , a non-profit research organization and the coauthor of Agile Talent. “It is a critical aspect of your reputation.”

Long-term 8

Long-term Follow-up Project Due Diligence 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

These principles represent a combination of organizational systems and individual capabilities — the hardware and software of transformation. Among the companies that use this practice are Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson, and Whole Foods Market, which have all enjoyed sustained growth after adopting explicit practices of transparency.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

If that’s the case she recommends providing your team with reading materials about the quiet power of introverts , pointing to high-profile, successful introverts, such as Beth Comstock , chief marketing officer at General Electric, or “identifying a leader in your organization who is an introvert and willing to talk about it publicly.”

Management 8

Management How To Brainstorming COO 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. Many marketers are left behind, simply tuned in to the wrong frequencies. But data, alone, isn’t enough; search and social marketing, for example, are content hungry disciplines.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Organizations are more boundary-less, agile, global, and transparent — and will be even more so in the future. All-inclusive global talent market. Boundary-less work partnerships and networks augment capabilities and redefine careers, learning and workplace fairness and attractiveness. From The New York Public Library.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8