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

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

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

MAY 17, 2016

In every industry, digital technologies are transforming the status quo. Accenture surveyed nearly 5,000 men and women in 31 countries, exploring their use of technology, including access to devices like smartphones and wireless wearable devices, and the frequency with which they use them.

Technology 9

Technology Globalization Education Wireless 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. One survey revealed that “39% of jobs in the legal sector could be automated in the next 10 years.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

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. As one bank CEO interviewed for our survey put it, "Our future competitors will not be traditional banks, but large technology companies.". Why aren't U.S.

Retail 16

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

I explored the BYO movement, looking at official policies and real-life practices for BYOD (bring your own device), BYOPC (bring your own computer) and BYOA (bring your own application, including using the public cloud). But at the customer-facing edge of the organization, my surveys show that conditions are different.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Managers' survival, he continued, in a conclusion that could have been written this morning, depends "on their foresight and their grasp not only of immediate trends and problems in particular organizations but of external technological, social, and political forces of revolutionary proportions.". What Makes a Leader? What Leaders Really Do.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Management Attrition Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 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. Changing customer behaviors driven by digital technology have altered the way consumers want to buy. Fears of an early death have now been replaced by fears of outliving ones’ resources.

Insurance 8

Insurance Policies Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Examples of enterprise social-technology use are cropping up all the time: TD bank relies on a social network for employee communication, and at Unisys, social communities provide specialized expertise to resolve technical problems.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the first phase, we surveyed 300 women on parental leave, all based in Ireland and the UK, as they neared their return to work. This phase involved a round of interviews with people at 28 organizations across a variety of sectors, including aviation, banking, pharmaceutical, professional services, and technology.

Career 13

Career Company Pharmaceuticals Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

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. Not surprisingly, it wound up with a bank that looks like an Apple store. Other companies pray that technology can save them.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer.

Career 247

Career Company Software Handbook 247

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We surveyed women in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India with personal income of at least $100,000 or investable assets of $500,000 or more. It is growing: 58% of women surveyed across the four Asian countries expect their assets to increase. And their wealth is not just substantial. In the U.S.,

Survey 8

Survey Diversity Telecommunications Focus Group 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. And Zappos , Amazon''s online retailer, also recently scaled back their flexible work arrangements.

Presenteeism 9

Presenteeism Career Sample Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. We actually define ourselves as a technology company," VP Carolyn Everson once said, a bit sniffily. BONUS BITS: What''s in the Piggy Bank. There''s the Rub. Wall Street Journal.

Committee 8

Committee Content Price Organizational Behavior 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

“Asia pivot” policy: Americans think of international relations like a movie, imagining that we can hit the pause button when we need to and then push play when we want to return. led World Bank ($2223.2 billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8 This new bank raises many questions.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

As the scale and complexity of the cyber threat landscape is revealed, so too is the general lack of cybersecurity readiness in organizations, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology. Spending millions on security technology can certainly make an executive feel safe. Sponsored by Accenture.

Training 10

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

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. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ’ What they’re really selling: Skin cream. ’ What they’re really selling: Banking. Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. ‘Products for Healthy Living.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. 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.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

As the CEO of a British bank confided at last year’s World Economic Forum, “We all know it’s important to be empathic, but how do I galvanize 48,000 people in my UK operations — most of whom think that empathy is for wimps? The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Media Sample Banking 8

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. The competition story revolves around digital technology. 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 12, 2014

In fact, encouraging startups may be bad policy. For banks, a larger and more profitable loan portfolio may be the benefit. Banks are irrelevant for the entrepreneurship ecosystem because they don’t lend to startups. Yes, it is true that banks don’t, and shouldn’t lend to startups.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure.

Long-term 11

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 The prognosis is not good.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Once upon a time, CEOs did not comment on governmental regulations or policies other than those that directly affected their industries or companies. When governmental policy undercuts such values, companies feel obligated to speak up. The technology sector takes the lead. Charlottesville , DACA ), and Bank of America (e.g.,

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Employees were better paid than the marketplace, thus forcing many to stay or not question policies. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to a 2007 survey conducted by Robert Half International , nearly three-quarters (73%) of Gen Y professionals are worried about balancing a career with personal obligations. The random sample represented the distribution of job backgrounds among a typical MBA class: finance (40%), consulting (40%), and technology (20%).

Sample 8

Sample Survey Career Consultative 8

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

Here are some harsh truths that President Obama did not face in his State of the Union speech: there is very little actual innovation taking place within Big Business; Washington innovation policy is placing big bets in the wrong places; China's innovation policy is superior to America's. Let me explain. global competitiveness.

Policies 15

Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Healthcare (e.g.,

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8