Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. These inward-looking groups were able to impose discipline on their practice: enforcing standards, mentoring and training new entrants, and refining and building on old expertise to create new more valuable knowledge.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s. Strategy That Works.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. They use machine learning software to better train machine learning software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. Ongoing training and communication, as well as installation of leaders with high integrity, further reinforce a risk culture. Of course the right people have to be setting the rules. That meant Enron was able to report $3.3

Management 13

Management Banking Committee Risk Management 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, in the standalone human capital report from Deutsche Bank (2013), the bank showed trends in its investment in training — and in 2013 investment went down. That could be a bad thing, a step away from investing in talent.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Too often, leaders view such investments as costly training on things that seem to be “common sense” or issues they can afford to get around to later. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

Training 8

Training Efficiency Class Price 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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