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Inviting New Voices to the Table: HR as a Strategic Partner

HR Digest

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories. They need to explore how they can help HR become a strategic partner by providing them with the resources they need.

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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.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

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. Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Human capital.

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3 Changes Retailers Need to Make to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. The new business model has yet to solidify, and the leaders have yet to emerge. Think of the colleges that are increasingly able to identify students at risk of dropping out and intervene before they do. They’re also sharing risk.