HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Henry discusses EY’s response to evolving workplace dynamics, including flexible work models and investments in emerging technologies. How do you ensure that these values are embedded within the organization’s talent management practices, and what strategies do you employ to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace culture?

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. Competitive situations create a distinct individual and team behavior.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. We needed to shift faster to public cloud and new technologies such as IoT, machine learning, SAP Cloud Platform and advanced analytics.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other WebSites on the World Wide Web.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

It is the ability to stay mentally focused on achieving the mission at hand, regardless of circumstances, that will help you take your organization to that next level. A warrior’s heart has served my family well in both business and life in general. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] patriciazell Wow…thanks, Mike!

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. consultants, etc.), Manufacturing, oh yes!

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Organizations which thrive on customer transactions to generate revenues rely on data automation software to preserve their data integrity.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2012

In his business novel, John defines the business characteristics and operating environment owners must establish in order to later remove themselves from the organization without its subsequent collapse. These include: offering products and services employees or technologies can deliver in the owner’s absence.

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Resources Competitive Advantage Reference Operations 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While it is clearly not necessary for an executive to have military experience to be an effective leader, I would submit that today’s business leaders would do well to possess the characteristics of a warrior in their pursuit to become better leaders and to build better organizations.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

When an organization stops learning they begin dying. If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. it is also an illusion to think that the higher you go in an organization the more control you have hence the decisions should be somehow easier.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Organizations can use social media to connect more effectively with customers (both internal and external), improve service and responsiveness, and monitor perceptions of their brand. Adjustments or adjournment.

Blog 379

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

The buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) has grown loud enough to penetrate the C-suites of organizations around the world, and for good reason. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

.” Value investors like Graham and Buffett believe that the sources of sustainable returns on capital are not a company’s human assets but their so-called “economic moats,” structural, durable competitive advantages around revenues or costs. The odds aren’t favorable.

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Clearly the roles of CIO and the IT organization need reinvention — and that''s the conversation we''ve been having over the last few months in webinars and posts. CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. See also here , here , and here.) Victorio M.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Since the classical style is the best known to corporate planners and I've already discussed the adaptive style in depth in a previous HBR article (" Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage " with co-author Mike Deimier) let's take a closer look at the other two: shaping and visionary.

Strategy 8

Strategy Organization Committee Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Nor is it a sign that the official leaders in an organization are doing a bad job. But I'm not seeing many organizations able to recognize them — or cultivate their talents to gain a competitive advantage. They have deep professional expertise in at least one discipline vital to the organization.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver. So if the organization is going to invest in longer-term growth, this could increase the stock’s beta — both in downside risk and upside reward.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. But this year was different.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” You aren’t alone; while most organizations talk the talk of sustainability — doing things like integrating environmental and societal concerns into their business models — very few walk the walk. TOSHINORI TARUI/Getty Images. have any s ystematic sustainability oversight at the board level.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. However letting ideas run rampant within any organization is chaotic at best, and disastrous at worst.

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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Yet every enterprise is essentially a square-peg business waiting for a round-hole world.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8