HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

At USAA, we have a standard for how we work which includes being innovative and building for the future. This last year has only reinforced the importance of agile leaders and a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Finance was my “comfort zone” and my team and I had created strong relationships with each other.

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Finance Diversity Leadership Development Maturity 59

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&#

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

It is the mental agility, a fierce determination, a never say die attitude, and placing other’s interests above our own that has carried us through the best of times and the worst of times. A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go. And they use online social collaboration and communications tools.

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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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HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. Innovation in talent management and workforce panning strategies is required to help companies make profits again. In a rapidly changing world, companies can only succeed if they’re agile and adapt quickly. Quality Hires.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings?

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. Decisions that once took weeks can now be made in moments as the team works together. Then he meets with employees.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. When HR becomes solely a talent race, boards and CEOs can miss the less obvious but equally vital value of managing both new hires and leaders who are facing increasing demands.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Give mid-level leaders a chance to take on advisory roles outside of line management in functions such as strategy, HR or finance. Implement rotational assignments.

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Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Unisys CEO Ed Coleman addressed this through leading by example. Metrics: Identify hard business metrics like increasing speed to innovation or speed for winning new business.

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Media Productivity Products Company 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. Good is the enemy of great. Get Your Leadership BIG On! I Think Not.

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