QAspire

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I almost hate when human beings are referred to as resources. Seven Key Thoughts About Managing Human Resources was the post I wrote for business owners, team leaders and human resources teams. Thanks also for sharing your energy with me and my readers Tanmay! You made it super easy to share you.

Travel 84

Travel Blog Human Resources Directory 84

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 10

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The cost of child care in the United States is high. The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. The Benefits Employees Want Don't Always Cost a Lot. The service is confidential and available at no cost to employees.

Stress 12

Stress Company Banking Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training. We are already seeing ROI in terms of less waste of time, energy, and resources, which directly connects to effective care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care System ROI Analysis 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Meister, a founding partner of Future Workplace, a human resources consultancy and the coauthor of The 2020 Workplace. Generation-based employee affinity groups are a waste of time and energy, he adds. Then “use that information to look critically at your human resources and business strategies. Don’t.

Management 9

Management Mentor Human Resources Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Free food is the cost of admission to the Silicon Valley tech scene. Reason #2: Free breakfast syncs the energy levels of our workers. Pretend that you and I worked together on a project once, but now we’re on different teams at Pivotal. Tomorrow, I’m definitely going to grab a yogurt and some fruit.

Company 13

Company Bottom-up Long-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

High-potential programs that take leaders away from their jobs week after week for classroom experiences, or that create projects unrelated to critical strategic business challenges, cost much more than the training fee. Not long ago we met with the learning and development staff of a global energy company.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

High-potential programs that take leaders away from their jobs week after week for classroom experiences, or that create projects unrelated to critical strategic business challenges, cost much more than the training fee. Not long ago we met with the learning and development staff of a global energy company.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Participative Training 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. They can also share additional feedback or volunteer for projects.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy. Just took a vacation. Got to send the kid to college (or some other personal reason).

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. We found that distrust was significantly higher in the organizations where cc’ing was the norm.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Inventory costs. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Team the project. Cost containment.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Roy was well aware of the cost and disruption of a termination. Using the worksheet to quantify the factors in a termination decision can help you evaluate the costs and benefits of individuals’ performance, their impact on team dynamics, and bottom-line results. For close to a year, Jeff tried to help Karen get back on track.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Resources Reputation Cost 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Cost containment. Human resources development. Goals release energy. Businesses should review their Strategic Plan annually. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Study the organization’s core business.

Goal 50

Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2014

As part of a project with the Department of Defense, we recently researched over 20 award-winning and recognized workplace wellness systems, at companies such as Johnson & Johnson, L.L. The more proactive stance toward health they have established feeds off of itself and enhances employee lives, even while reducing future costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Human Resources Crisis Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. In fact, few of us do.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Havens, accustomed to selling benefits services to Fortune 1000 human resources departments, found its key contact person assigned to IBM procurement instead.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Brand councils are comprised of senior executives from a range of company functions: key business unit leaders, influential staff leaders from human resources, marketing, legal, and finance, and sometimes even the CEO. Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8