HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

If leaders can start with these best practices, we’ll set ourselves up for success as we navigate challenges in our new hybrid world. It’s literally a Harvard Business School case study in business model transformation, but when I think back on it, the impact on the entire organization has been amazing.

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Strategy that works has got to be based on something that proves successful in unpredictable, fast moving, and changing times. Implementing improvements and advantages that drive better results throughout the strategy planning and execution process is the key to success. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future.

Process 150

Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

LDRLB

JANUARY 11, 2013

The reason for HR’s existence is business through people. It’s not about using or manipulating or exploiting people for business. That, business forms a context to innovate for people, who, then create success for the business. Don’t get me wrong. This brings us to the posture that I propose for HR innovation.

Innovation 158

Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing Proposal 158

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

So one way to view this is as a battle between two powerful networking companies with similar digital business models that are both able to keep getting bigger and bigger by linking people to more people in relentless geometric progression. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” You might think that you have to turn yourself into a Silicon Valley startup and reinvent your business model.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) How do you best focus the time and resources you have? What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry?

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” It used to be that business growth led to job growth. They take a social problem, like health, poverty, or the environment, then work on finding a business model that can remedy the problem.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. What might business models of the future look like? They quickly learn that group success and cooperation will enable individual success.

Development 9

Development Participative Conference Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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.

Retail 8

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hess Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Discussion questions are provided for each case.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Sustainability pressures force changes in how we build our supply chains, how we design and manufacture products, how we deliver services, how we create and execute our business models and strategies, how we develop financial metrics to measure success, how we attract and retain 21st-century, holistic thinkers, and on and on.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Business Model Trends Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. These criteria assume a limited supply of financial capital and that prudent allocation of financial capital determines a firm’s success.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Apart from their success as entrepreneurs, they all share one distinct characteristic: extensive cross-cultural experience. By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

At the highest level, there are three propositions essential to the success of strategy: the value proposition, the profit proposition, and the people proposition. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization.

Blue Ocean Strategy 8

Blue Ocean Strategy Strategy Execution Supply Chain 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

More importantly, change should not consume every aspect of a business at the same rate or to the same degree. Leaders ought to be wary about bringing change to vibrant cultures, the positioning of brands, and effective business models. Would You Change the Culture of Google or Zappos? I consider Google a tier-one innovator.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEOs who invest their time advancing their company’s business model or seeking a new one are adding value to their organizations. Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Differentiation holds the key to competitive success. The result was far more.

CEO 207

CEO Chief Executive Officer Business Model Competitive Advantage 207

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

While there are many aspects to informed management some of the basics that must be present are: In depth financial planning and controls : this usually requires someone with a graduate degree in business, such as an MBA or equivalent and is proficient in: Business modeling. Human Resource Management. motivation.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. Yet our business models have not changed to keep pace with these shifts. In particular some 80% of their business resources are fluid. Or "Humanized." That is for sure.

Christensen 15

Christensen Business Model Decentralization Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. It was a remarkable success. But no company today can rest on its laurels. Here’s how: 1.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

To successfully implement a customer-centric strategy and operating model, a company must have a culture that aligns with them — and leaders who deliberately cultivate the necessary mindset and values in their employees. At Hootsuite, the social media management platform, marketing and human resources executives collaborate to do this.

Short-term 9

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 9

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. In the new economy, culture is the poster child of corporate success. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12