HR Digest

MARCH 23, 2023

Temporary layoff due to business slowdown. Layoff due to lack of projects. Example: Dear Harry, I would like to take this opportunity to update you on our recent merger with [company name] and the resulting changes in our business objectives. We’ve put together a few layoff letter samples for the following scenarios: 1.

Letter 98

Letter Politics Restructuring Sample 98

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

“This report is a breakthrough because it examines specific talent practices that drive financial performance to help organizations prepare their leaders to manage in this new business environment,” stated Rebecca Ray, Ph.D. , Four times more likely to have built a strong pipeline of ready-now leaders to fill available critical roles.

Human Capital 103

Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. Turn it on and let it be your mantra. Insight Center.

Objective 10

Objective Software Business Objectives Learning-by-Doing 10

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It’s so much easier and quicker – in terms of having something to say that others want or need to hear – to be derivative, to take someone else’s thoughts and market them; to be a re-packager rather than an innovator. The second reason why it’s challenging to become a thought leader goes back to what I said originally.

Leadership 58

Leadership Long-term Innovation Audience 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

A recent CMO Survey indicates that marketers plan to double their spending on social media in the next five years. This disparity highlights an important, and potentially costly, problem: Marketers continue to increase social media spending, yet many are still uncertain about management, strategies, and integration.

Media 8

Media Strategy Audience Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We find that the most forward-thinking companies are identifying and growing leaders in the midst of pursuing critical business objectives, as opposed to sending them off to far-flung educational programs and hoping they return with “big” insights about themselves and the world. What works instead?

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

If that''s the case, why would any company allow a business change initiative to fall short of its promised business benefits? Business change initiatives (those that involve IT projects) engage enormous resources — not just IT and financial resources, but human time and emotion. These are finite resources.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

. “ Employer branding ” is no longer simply a concern for recruitment marketing; it is also a key component of effective organizational leadership. If companies can’t attract, engage, and retain the right talent, they’re unlikely to achieve their business objectives. Delivering on your promises.

Globalization 8

Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. It is no longer sufficient for IT just to be ''aligned'' with your business objectives; a fusion is needed.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio. area health care market has indeed shifted. The investment portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. Companies that want the insights from linked systems can navigate the organizational complexities with these six steps: Align feedback systems around high-level business objectives. They can also share additional feedback or volunteer for projects. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While almost all business units, such as HR and sales, have started working more closely with IT, we have become especially interested in the marketing-IT relationship because we’ve seen firsthand just how much of marketing is increasingly powered by technology. Align your vision.

Marketing 8

Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Learn when deadline crunch time is best to accomplish the optimum business objectives. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As marketing continues to shift and improve, we’ve come to rely on IT to provide expertise on current technology and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a road map that shows where technology will lead, where integration is critical, and how to make the best use of increasingly sophisticated tools.

Marketing 8

Marketing Banking Technology System 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). 7 Stages in Making a Case for Business Funding: Link to a strategic business objective. Running a bureaucracy.

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

For one, legal departments can’t often approve a project without an objective. But in addition, the team proposing the project needs to be clear and transparent about what they’re trying to accomplish. Projects without a purpose confuse people and incite skepticism, setting a bad precedent for future analytics efforts.

Information Technology 9

Information Technology Participative Proposal Information 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

For one, legal departments can’t often approve a project without an objective. But in addition, the team proposing the project needs to be clear and transparent about what they’re trying to accomplish. In a few cases, business objectives can’t be met with anonymous data.

Participative 8

Participative Proposal Benchmarking Analysis 8