HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. It’s as much about mindset as it is about skillset – with a focus on honing curiosity, flexibility and agility.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

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.

Leadership 284

Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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.

CEO 11

CEO Agility Technology Industry 11

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. The pace of change and disruption in today's marketplaces will only increase.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

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.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

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. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

Compliance 10

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs. Insight center.

Retail 9

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' So, kudos to Charan for starting the conversation.

CFO 10

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. Elisa Steele at Jive Software, Jay Farner at QuickenLoans, and Susan Lintonsmith at Quiznos have even gone from CMO to CEO.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

Ries 9

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 9

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. General Electric Operations' GE is an icon of management best practices. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. CEO Ken Rees wrote to me that, "in an environment that's changing as quickly as ours, there are so many things to be worried about.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

What if you upgraded your IT network to a new operating system that promised faster, better and leaner results — only to find that the vast majority of your leaders did not have the necessary competencies to use that new system? Our research shows that escalating issues to the CEO often backfires and can doom matrix projects.

Management 14

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

CEOs must convince the board, markets, employees, and customers that what they are doing is valuable. MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind.

Succession 15

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

As the supply of courageous board candidates dwindles, global companies are in need of battle-tested directors more than ever — board members who fully understand and can actively engage in virtually all aspects of an enterprise's operations. Foundational — survival — boards focus on compliance; they play it safe.

Compliance 9

Compliance Maslow Short-term Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. That makes it possible for the producers of the software to improve it much more frequently, with no effort required by customers. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. ” Rogier handed the microphone over to Henning Haas, the CEO of Contect’s Germany group, and came backstage where Derek was waiting.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility?

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. This is where a startup''s lack of profitable operations would have worked to their advantage. or you might not.

Company 8

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Social Chain Social chain is agile and able to evolve according to what’s happening on one of the best marketing platforms today, social media. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105