HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Presence in the Present" As a branded company whose success depends on change management, Kellogg Company puts a premium on its internal culture. She is a member of Kellogg Company’s executive committee. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company? People are at the core of this strategy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. Most senior executives respond to this question by describing what the company is or what it does.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.”

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products. Unfortunately, my gesture was rebuffed and the union decided to strike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In our world of excess everything, savvy innovators realize that less is actually best. The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Groups of executives are often prevented by their mental frames of reality from perceiving what’s really happening. Before explaining why, though, a bit of history.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Esparza emphasizes the importance of championing participation, personalized coaching, and celebrating diverse perspectives to foster innovation and mutual respect within the workplace. What unique or innovative employee initiatives set AutoNation apart from its competitors in attracting and retaining talent?

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Diversity Automotive Human Resources Career 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market? Threat analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

The structure of Musk’s contract is actually not too different from other executives’ Effectively, Musk is being given the standard package of performance-vesting equity. But the value of an executive’s shares already automatically depend on performance. The same is true for executive pay.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Because he and I have taught executive education classes together, I thought I should read his book. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? Will it work? We believe it will but if you don’t, ask me again in 13 months and 13 days.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Most senior managers agree that taking risks is important for innovation, but in far too many cases, they don’t act like they believe this. In other words, the reality in many organizations today is that despite the public emphasis on innovation, the underlying culture may be strongly risk-averse. Keep it nimble and small.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. But this is rare.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I also find it interesting because the common hindsight narrative about Honda's success glosses over the many bumps along the way and imparts a sense of genius foresight to Honda's managers that they themselves would have rejected. Instead Honda stayed open and entrepreneurial. Don't let assumptions blind you to disruptive opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. The Open Automotive Alliance that Google launched this week is a reminder that twenty-first-century deals don’t always look like the M&A of old. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. In the middle office, risk and compliance management will largely watch bots that are not prone to human error or fraud, supported by sophisticated models to predict quality and compliance issues.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Many executives, eager to avoid over-investing in the wrong ideas, are intrigued by this approach, but they’re leery of putting unpolished products and services out in the market. This approach is easier for software companies, but manufacturing innovations like 3D printing have provided ways to launch physical products at limited scale.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2015

But beyond the question of how closely the story mirrored reality or not, it made me wonder why companies like Amazon, as far as I know, appear to choose work and management practices intuitively and stick with them without proper testing. Automotive firms develop concept cars. Food companies experiment with new foods and flavors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A growing number of executives of U.S.-based In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. This program focused on developing manufacturing company leaders who possess both a management perspective and deep technical knowledge. Local talent and skills are essential to productivity and innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In fact, when my colleagues at Bain & Company surveyed more than 400 senior executives from large, global companies last year, they found that fewer than one in four felt that culture was very effective in supporting business performance at their company. But culture doesn’t always produce great results. Oriented toward winning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Understanding and deciphering ecosystem-level disruption will be the key for executives in the coming decade. A misunderstood story. Diversify.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Finally, they tend to have an eye for networks of networks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today. Senior executives must also pay attention to both the technical and social architecture of these platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In contrast, the automotive industry has barely half the rate of digital reinventors. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research indicates that these leaders approach the digital opportunity with a different strategic mindset and execute on the opportunity with a different operating model. In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. Essential background. Here’s What to Do About It.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2018

Live from Dell Technologies World conference in May 2018, Matthew Saleski, global enterprise account executive at LinkedIn, sits down with Dell Technologies’ Stella Low, SVP of global communications, and Ari Lightman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College to discuss an overview of realizing 2030.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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