HR Digest

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This transformation on importance of training in the workplace, addresses the need for greater agility in skill acquisition in a market evolving at an increasingly rapid pace. Looking ahead, executives’ main business priorities include increasing productivity and investments in technology.

Training 52

Training Supply Chain Human Capital Benchmarking 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2020

There’s no turning back the clock when it comes to technology — it is in all our futures and that includes the future of our work as much as anything else. The better you understand, and are able to use, technology, the more likely you are to remain employed now and in the future. Focus on Transferable Skills. Build a Global Network.

Career 66

Career Bond Agility Skills 66

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. What’s going on?

Self-aware 332

Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 15 Key Lessons On Managing Change Change, they say, is the only constant. With rapid globalization and advent of technology, the rate of change in society and in organizations has just multiplied. You should know what "not do to" when implementing change. Hope that clarifies.

Management 130

Management Blog Directory Open-book 130

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Probably not. How are they doing it?

Process 14

Process Innovation Agility Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The CEO sitting across from me is explaining how he and the other executives of a telecommunications firm were caught off guard by a new technology that disrupted the firm’s business. ” To sustain success, you must develop learning agility. What is Learning Agility? How Do You Develop Learning Agility?

Agility 8

Agility Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

They allow managers to suspend normal rules in an acceptable way and they provide an effective audiovisual medium for absorbing ideas. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

It’s also a popular construct in agile project management. These aren’t all-out, late-night, stack-of-pizza-boxes-on-the-conference-table types of affairs that only work for fledgling internet companies though. We’ve seen firsthand, again and again, how they help teams get more done and move faster.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Hackathons have grown in popularity almost in parallel with the growth in the agile software devevelopment methodology that they’ve sprung out of. Five teams descended on London for 12 hours of intense activity as they endeavoured to pull together useful applications from the cloud-based clinical data management system Medidata Rave.

Productivity 57

Productivity Products Software Participative 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") In this volatile climate, the new watchword for business is "agility." If the access of other executives is managed through the CHRO, a dysfunctional leadership team is not far behind.

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Larry, the head of technology, was his partner in this endeavor, but recently it hadn’t felt much like a partnership. Carlos tried to focus on what Irina, one of Larry’s developers, was telling him about the current agile sprint. She nodded, and they walked to a small conference room. “Do you have a minute?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Project Conference Team 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Not long ago, I asked 100 CEOs attending a conference how many of them were currently involved in a significant business transformation. Business transformations are typically built around new structural elements, including policies, processes, facilities, and technology. hbr staff/jake hinds/unsplash.

Policies 15

Policies Resistance Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. How talent management is changing. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

With not a little pride, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and Filippo Passerini, his CIO, told Fortune Brainstorm conference attendees that digital investment had successfully transformed their company's transparency and agility. We have fewer top managers now," he said. Did he simply tell people not to micromanage?

Micromanagement 14

Micromanagement Management CIO Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Leadership Institutes , conferences, and management gurus reference the mighty banyan in their teachings. Ultimately, this type of growth masks a lack of diversity and fresh thinking in the core of the management ranks causing many leaders, their teams and organizations to lose their way.

Span of Control 10

Span of Control Bond Agility Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

I began my journey in a Moroccan souk, an ancient marketplace where people must look each other in the eye over a pile of goods and decide whether to buy or sell, without the cover of email or conference calls. Sullivan has read numerous sales books and attended conferences, but says most provide no more than a brief sugar high.

Succession 16

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 16

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. His columns are read by millions, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at some of the major tech conferences. As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval.

Disintermediation 131

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 131