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Quita Highsmith on changing the face of HR in the pharmaceutical industry

HR Digest

The HR Digest talked to Quita Highsmith to discuss the essential role of HR in building a culture of agility, innovation, and engagement. The post Quita Highsmith on changing the face of HR in the pharmaceutical industry appeared first on The HR Digest.

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Is Consumer Non-Durables a Good Career Path?

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Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and healthcare products are also considered consumer non-durables. Pharmaceutical Researchers: Researchers in the pharmaceutical sector focus on developing new medicines and improving existing drugs to enhance their efficacy and safety. Complying with these regulations can be challenging and costly.

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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. Agile and Fast.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Extensive assessment data has revealed that learning agility, or the ability to apply past experiences and lessons learned to new situations and first-time challenges, and self-awareness are proven predictors of future success.

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Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Leaders recognize that lean and agile business strategies require new ways of accessing talent to fill critical gaps — without necessarily bringing on more full-time employees. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. One of the main problems is decision making.

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Ready to Grow Your Business? How to Appeal to Niche Audiences

Strategy Driven

They need to be agile and dynamic to respond to the new challenges expansion creates – increased demands on their knowledge, skills and time. Shares in companies that supply products for seniors have a very healthy return – the health sector, pharmaceuticals, and even the leisure industry have been boosted by the change in demographics.

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Corporate Learning Programs Need to Consider Context, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business Review

They aspire to teach abstract concepts to their employees, such as “agility,” “collaboration,” and “coaching.” In one pharmaceutical R&D company, we identified three critical populations that needed to change to enable the execution of the organization’s strategy. Insight center.

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