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What Is HR’s Role in Change Management?

HR Digest

Understanding the importance of change is the first step to understanding HR’s role in change management. Change is undoubtedly the only constant in the modern business landscape. The Harvard Business School blog explains that organizational change can be broadly categorized into two types: adaptive and transformational.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. We see how Peter Drucker’s thought leadership continues to guide leaders and organizations. Some can be good fun.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

These skills will vary by industry and function, but up-to-date financial, technical, managerial, and leadership skills are of universal value. Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.”

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The result is different data definitions, inconsistent business logics, multiple workarounds, unrealized synergies, redundancy, re-invention rather than re-use, and a myriad of different technologies. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

“The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.” ” But although changing a corporate culture is hard, it is not impossible with the right leadership.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Managing Creativity: Lessons from Pixar and Disney Animation

Harvard Business Review

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? By the time we got to Frozen , the marketing organization completely lined up behind it worldwide, built upon the earlier successes. Well, the underlying hardware and software tools are continually changing and their price points are changing.