ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

The world has its eyes on systemic racism. Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue. But emphasizing statistics ignores the uncomfortable factors that lead to poor diversity.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

No longer is there paying lip service to personal and professional growth –it’s a sound retention and innovation strategy. Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment.

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Altman Team Succession Leadership 136

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

During this time, we raised the quality systems and actual performance to allow exports of Australian-made Nissans to Japan. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations. Sam Walsh: At Rio Tinto, we had an innovation programme called “Mine of the Future”.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

Team 8

Team Compliance Supply Chain Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2018

Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the “black box” — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes it’s because technical teams need to identify and resolve bugs without disrupting the entire system.

Compliance 8

Compliance Document System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress. on a 5-point scale).

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Metrics Analysis Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. diversity' tends to be programs and policies around ethnic identity and gender. In China, or Brazil, diversity is defined differently.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Diversity and inclusion. But hiring a more diverse workforce is only half the equation. Keep an eye out for candidates with an adaptive mindset.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Now consider a host of other conflicts: from interdepartmental turf wars, to poorly designed agreements between hospital systems and insurance providers, to the difficulties encountered in aligning hospital goals and incentives with those of contracted physician groups. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Strategy 8

Strategy Health Care Compliance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Traditionally these events have been innovation-orientated, with sponsors aiming to attract developers, designers, UX specialists and so on together to build creative prototypes of applications that can then be developed further. .” Crash course. The winning team heralded from biopharmaceutical services company Parexel.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Software Participative 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

These problems create both direct costs (through turnover and harassment lawsuits) and indirect costs (through decreased innovation due to low psychological safety). Dropping a diversity initiative onto these types of workplaces is unlikely to create meaningful change. with job consequences) or informally (e.g.,

Organization 8

Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. ” In other words, training divorced from excellence is mere compliance. That scares me. Incorporate New Ideas from the Ground.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Ultimately, new innovations and critical problem solving are realized through relationships. For example when virtual distance is relatively high: Innovative behaviors fall by over 90%. But compliance is not the same as collaboration. Trading ideas and taking risks on behalf of others and the organization is key.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Project Examples Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

I'm uneasy with the idea of affinity groups , the single-dimension networks that are all the rage in the corporate diversity world. Rather than forcing a corporation of clones, affinity groups help maintain some of the outward manifestations of diversity. But woefully insufficient to drive real value from diversity.

Diversity 11

Diversity Education Career Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. Each has its place.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So instead of creating another pill dispenser, it launched a compliance-enhancing system. In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. “There’s no question that the system is safer as a result of this. The size and influence of U.S. Further Reading.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8