HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Understanding HR Analytics The Evolution of HR Management Over the past century, HR management has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from an operational discipline to a strategic function. Optimized HR Operations: HR analytics streamlines HR processes by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Consider Lowe's , America's second-largest home improvement retailer worldwide, with revenue of $49 billion and more than 1,700 stores. Coco has a unique background because he's not a career HR professional; he started in operations at GE , where he was trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt process improvement expert.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn't have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. In addition, they possess two key traits: Deep operational experience. Coco and Beaird relish talking operations with line managers.

Human Resources 13

Human Resources Operations Compliance Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Is the balance right in your organization?

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Be open to creating new work policies and benefits.

Management 9

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. Here, real estate developers and managers can orient their tenant selection around companies that provide higher-paying, family-supporting jobs with pathways for upward mobility and careers.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Flextime Globalization Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

She was encouraged to keep a running list of questions about how the mammoth retailer''s operations worked, and she discussed them with her manager during weekly calls. Cover your social media policies, too — are you okay with Facebook and Twitter, or are managers going to sneer if they spot her on Tumblr?

Project 8

Project Learning-by-Doing Retail Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

With policy makers distracted by political polarization and limited fiscal and monetary room to maneuver in, one thing seems certain: Global businesses must advance a new, credible narrative for globalization, technology, and the role of corporations — and support it with purposeful action. The New Science of Human Capital.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 2, 2020

Non-managerial employees in maintenance, construction, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, ironworkers, craftsmen, operating engineers, and longshoremen, all qualify. It will be the small businesses, retailers and manufacturers that would be the most impacted by DOL's new overtime rules.

Safe Harbor 84

Safe Harbor Proposal Long-term Comparison 84

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

I see the leader from the big picture perspective and how he-she paints career panoramas by interconnecting the pieces. They are forced by circumstances to change (career obsolescence, down-sizing, marketplace factors). Base-Level Sellers (door-to-door, telephone, clerks and checkers, retail sales). Career Worker.

Business Development 62

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public. Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Overconsumption.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The parable of the disappearing bankers gives the tiniest glimpse of a better way: a path to a smarter kind of growth, built on a different set of institutions — those that operate at micro-scale, instead of mega-scale, built on human relationships, instead of anonymous transactions, self-organizing, instead of "administered," and that have the (..)

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Banks buy money wholesale and sell it to borrowers at retail rates. ’ What they’re really selling: Retail merchandise. Retailers are motivated by keeping the cash registers ringing. ’ What they’re really selling: Usually retailers, restaurants, service companies. It’s 1% of the total picture.

Brand 56

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

But that hasn't been the case at Danaher, DuPont, and Staples, which have continually improved their operations over many years, to the delight of their customers. But the key to success is a management process for focusing on business imperatives called "policy deployment," from the Japanese term " Hoshin Kanri."

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Another global retail giant, The Coca-Cola Company, has been celebrated for its water stewardship initiative. Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Social policies support boundary-less work beyond traditional full-time employment. Work and worker segmentation enables increasingly differentiated policies, practices, work designs, pay, and benefits, and workers choose organizations based on the opinions of socially connected peers and opinion leaders. Exponential technology change.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8