HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. When you cultivate trust with employees, they’re likelier to be happy and more productive at work.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2014

Should they pursue a big-name firm that offers prestige, or will a small company offering practical, hands-on experience that is directly related to their career goals be a better choice? Human resource departments offer these as a means to recruit the best students from the top schools. Regardless, this is all valuable insight.

How To 58

How To Competitive Advantage Open-book Career 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals.

Tactics 52

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

What is human capital management? Human Capital Management (HCM) represents a shift from traditional personnel management to a comprehensive approach focusing on optimizing workforce productivity and effectiveness. Workforce Management : Managing employee schedules, attendance, and compliance to maximize productivity.

Human Capital 52

Human Capital Management Technology Efficiency 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Setting goals that are too low. They arbitrarily disable accounts. Nonconformance is costly.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have the one of the largest freight transportation datasets in the world, and we’ve leveraged that asset and our expertise to create products that help our customers measure their Scope 3 emissions. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. It is a key competitive advantage.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

His goal was to employ people on the autism spectrum – individuals who have traditionally been unemployable. Friedman considered creating a traditional startup, but he realized that his goal was different. Friedman wasn’t changing how the product was made (e.g. What products or services can these workers best make or provide?

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Consider that Amazon also offers free same-day delivery by 9 PM on more than 1 million items in select areas and free two-hour delivery on some products in select metro areas through its Prime Now option. The goal is to make potential customers believe that “if you are not a Prime member, you are being irresponsible.”

IT Strategy 10

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through superior strategic alignment does not happen by accident – it happens by design, or not at all, and it requires a special breed of leadership, which I call enterprise leadership. If that’s the case, you urgently need to address this gap in leadership focus and capability.

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

To thwart the impact of low-cost foreign competition and to meet the accelerating demands of customers and shareholders, they embark on doing more, and adding more. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Product-service movement at retail levels. Product-service movement in the aftermarket (resales, repeat business, referrals, followup engagements). Productivity gained.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But depending on the goals of the behavioral projects being undertaken, this skill set might not always be needed. The arrangement works well because many of the projects are closely related to promoting efficiency and increasing productivity, as well as supporting Transdev competitive position.

Company 8

Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. Our human resources department takes care of that. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Learn to live with it.

Budgeting 78

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And this brings us back to the question of whether the people required to do this internally have the time and resources to pull it off.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2013

This is a stark contradiction to Sweeney’s inaugural goals including “encourage shared public services among local governments as a way to reduce spending… and make the state business friendly.” And, the competitive bidding process is in place to assure the best look at products, quality of services, at the best price.

Project 50

Project Human Resources Cost Conflict of Interest 50