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5 Ways to Better Manage Your Field Workforce in the Cloud

Chart Your Course

Managing a workforce via the cloud has quickly become the norm, as businesses now have more tools than ever before from which to choose. But adopting workforce management software and conjuring up new ways to streamline inventory updates can help improve employee morale and positively impact your bottom line.

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

HR Digest

By looking into HR technology for HR metrics and insights for better workforce management , companies can plan ahead based on their workforce capabilities instead of over or underestimating what is possible. There is an evident lag in data-driven decision-making that can be addressed with HR as a strategic partner in company decision-making.

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Manage Yourself Smart: Ten Guidelines for Making Smart Choices in.

Strategy Driven

I call this ‘managing yourself smart,’ and here are some guidelines to help navigate social media. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. To learn more about Barry, click here.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. When the brakes are applied, mechanical energy flows back to the traction motors, which then act as electrical generators.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Managing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. with case studies of actually collaborations.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

” Of course, your first step as a manager should be to avoid hiring toxic people in the first place , but once they’re on your team, it can be hard to get rid of them. “A manager can use this information to coach the person, or suggest resources to help address the root of the problem.”