HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

A New Company Data Strategy : This means that a Big Data company strategy requires a good deal of equanimity on the part of these various competing and overlapping roles to create policies that allow for departmental independence, but don’t expose the company to data breaches and misuse of customer data.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

Erratic capital markets, systemic risk, tax policy, and regulatory uncertainty have all been offered as culprits, and all play their parts. companies from innovating their way to competitive advantage. CEOs and 70% of global CEOs in our survey say they are investing in training to ensure a future pipeline of qualified employees.

Retail 16

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. And in the U.S.,

Globalization 13

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

However, the utilization rates for these policies were low, and they were often seen as incompatible with professional norms of success. Armed with this data, SSoM is now moving forward with a comprehensive program to integrate flexibility policies as a core element of the faculty advancement process.

Planning 8

Planning Policies Attrition Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Bigger government gets in the way of entrepreneurship, the thinking goes, thereby holding back innovation and job creation. But a new paper from a researcher at The World Bank adds some much-needed nuance to the conversation, making the point that not all government spending is equal. Entrepreneurship Government'

Health Care 8

Health Care Education Banking Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Make public policy proactive, not reactive. Our data include about 950 businesses. In the U.S.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

A recent survey by Gallup found that Americans, on average, expect to retire at 67, and only 38% think their retirement will be comfortable. Predictive analytics anticipate mortality and longevity rates and help Vantis Life underwrite the policies without the medical examination and tests usually associated with life policies.

Insurance 8

Insurance Policies Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. ” None of this is easy.

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But business owners – thanks to their enthusiasm for innovation – ignore the fact that cash-flow can make or break a business. Don’t try to bring innovation when the project lacks interest among your target audience. But, if there’s no alternative available, firing your folks can be a cruel but inevitable policy.

Finance 65

Finance SWOT Tools Software 65

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

A new study by my firm, Weber Shandwick, in partnership with KRC Research, found that only 19% of the nearly 2,000 global employees we surveyed feel strongly that the work experience their employer promotes publicly is matched by reality.

Reputation 12

Reputation Brand Attrition How To 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Our new book, Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors , based on recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation, indicates that there is a rising tide of female wealth worldwide. It is growing: 58% of women surveyed across the four Asian countries expect their assets to increase. In the U.S.,

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. In some cases, companies keep social media separate from the core in order to prevent the technology from getting bogged down in corporate policies and procedures. But that's a good thing.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

s decision, Bank of America had drastically cut back on their popular My Work program that used flexible scheduling and telecommuting centers to help employees find a work environment and schedule that made them most efficient. Prior to Yahoo!''s Flexible working arrangements are no longer the exception. Despite all the attention that Yahoo!,

Presenteeism 9

Presenteeism Career Sample Retail 9

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The researchers collected data from the American Community Survey, which has information on the wages and employment status of over 4 million people who live in states with transparency laws. The researchers analyzed a few thousand employees at a large Southeast Asian bank. Pay transparency.

Policies 90

Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 90

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Rather, it’s specific to the organization and its needs.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In banking, Wells Fargo and Fifth Third Bancorp also announced pay increases for minimum wage employees. We have found from our global surveys of businesses that almost half of companies that are increasing their investment budgets are doing so because of an increase in demand. Second, the effect of weak investment.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Innovation Internet' All without you explicitly asking it to do so. Data privacy: Ongoing breaches have continued to dismantle the public trust.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. In fact, encouraging startups may be bad policy. For banks, a larger and more profitable loan portfolio may be the benefit. Yes, it is true that banks don’t, and shouldn’t lend to startups.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

This segregation isn’t only about hard skills like coding, argues Bloom, pointing to a paper by Christina Håkanson of the Swedish National Bank and her colleagues. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. Today, much like our neighborhoods, companies seem to be more segregated by education and skill.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

He points out that the recently launched high-profile data journalism outlets are using common data sets from established sources, such as government statistics and surveys from polling companies, rather than making an effort to find or generate their own data. Why does this matter? How could things be different?

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Inequality has been a pressing issue for policy makers around the world for some time, and with it appearing to grow in the last few years, the urgency has intensified. The researchers combined economic inequality data from the World Bank with a survey completed by several thousand students from 30 universities around the world.

Politics 78

Politics Survey Participative Banking 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. While after a period of policy adjustments and re-negotiation, much of the relationship with the EU may well remain intact, the endgame is uncertain — and there is a wide gap separating the worst and the best-case scenarios.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Many invested heavily in renewable energy (see number five on this list), and some big companies dove into policy debates this year. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

President Obama gave a stirring speech last night, saying "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world." He used the word "innovate" more times in his State of the Union than any other U.S. But the obstacles to boosting innovation in the US are far higher than the President acknowledged.

Policies 15

Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15