N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Why should the 8-year old, first generation, 88-person software development company in San Diego expect to have the same desired culture as the 48-year old, 3rd generation, 268-person manufacturing company in Rochester, NY? For successful culture change to occur, leadership needs to be aligned. In 2006 I launched the Culture Compass™.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 28, 2014

Some during the course of the 18 months made the same book recommendations a couple times. In early November 2011, group member Len White graciously culled through the comments using his company’s Symphony Content Analysis Software that assists with the organization, analysis, and reporting of themes contained in text data.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Reducing the number of abandoned applications (or your applicant drop-off rate ) will improve your hiring success. They seemed qualified, but six months on the job and they still seem lost in the software. From people skills to software proficiency, assessment tools can uncover a candidate’s real traits. Use assessment tools.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Of course, existing processes can always be improved upon. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. As business needs change, so too can the underlying software. Of course, not all call centers can implement this technology overnight.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. While the HR team is mainly responsible for employee retention, it takes an entire organizational effort to make it a success.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2015

If you want your business to be successful, we suggest you invest in the right services. This might be to do with human resources, bullying or even an accidental injury. Of course, legal solutions are just one of the ways you need to protect your company. It’s nearly 2016 and that could mean a new start for your company.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Seth Godin's Blog : Senior Management - Many aspire for a position of senior leadership with the hopes of having the influence to chart a successful course for their organization's future.  Enjoy!  Enjoy!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Of course, you are going to have to make sure that you and your new employee have an official agreement about what you should get from them, and what they can expect from you in return. As long as you get all this right, you should find that you are going to be able to hire people much more successful indeed. Draw Up A Contract.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

A review of the literature does not turn up any evidence that the length of a recommendation is correlated with subsequent job success or any other desirable work outcomes. These are areas that can most often get in the way of an employee’s success — and they’re also very difficult to screen and train for.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Finding ways to improve HR’s digital acumen and data skills can challenge even the most well-resourced companies. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Reducing the number of abandoned applications (or your applicant drop-off rate ) will improve your hiring success. They seemed qualified, but six months on the job and they still seem lost in the software. From people skills to software proficiency, assessment tools can uncover a candidate’s real traits. Use assessment tools.

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Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. For example, they've had great success in increasing patient flow through their emergency department, resulting in 0.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

And if we go back to the labor discussion, a company could certainly fill its offices with some bodies “for less,” as Furchtgott-Roth suggests, but is that the right metric for success in human resources? Of course, not all the reactions to Gravity’s announcement were negative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

These criteria assume a limited supply of financial capital and that prudent allocation of financial capital determines a firm’s success. Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Of course, Facebook’s organization kept growing, so we kept watching it for lessons that might apply to other situations. Here’s the main lesson we took away from its success: Effective scaling isn’t just about establishing the biggest footprint you can, and as fast as possible. Now bend it.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Running a successful and efficient company is all about time management and reducing errors. A business that spends as much of the day being as productive as possible will always be set for success. Sadly, there is one thing that can cost your business and hold you back; human error. Photo courtesy of Pexels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

” And for good reason, says Heidi Grant, author of No One Understands You and What to Do About It and 9 Things Successful People Do Differently. “I [have] a clear conscience when I know that the decision makers considered what opportunity would make the employee most successful,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Consider: Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) , a network of hospitals with more than 900 care locations in North and South Carolina, recently lowered readmission rates by a third by using software from Predixion, a California-based software company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The obsession with predicting who may be a future star or the next top leader has influenced academic research and human resources practices alike. But how good are we at evaluating human potential? For example, Jane is a midlevel manager in the marketing department of a large software firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. And I’ve been fortunate.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The leader entrusted with course correction can ask a single question, and then shut up for about half an hour while listening to the answer: What did you learn from this failure? No one knows more than an employee who has failed what went wrong and how to course correct. It’s not about a performance review.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The expectations business leaders place upon their human resource departments are increasing. Of course, human resource professionals came into their roles with a higher calling: cultivating the company’s human capital, its employees. The times have caught up with the nobler side of human resources.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The inclusion of remote workers into your team is as advantageous as it is challenging; perhaps what we can find particularly interesting is that this trend is not just restricted to successful conglomerates with international interests but early stage companies who are still trying to find their feet.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Today, of course, that's unbelievably outdated. In 2008 TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services organization, started using Better Workplace's software tools to manage and scale a flexible work initiative that resulted in the reduction of 75 thousand square feet of office space in midtown Manhattan and cost savings of $15 million a year.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Only then can you create a business plan taking into consideration all these aspects and setting your business up for it’s best chance at success. They want to make sure they are setting themselves up for the best chance at success. By doing this, you can identify where his best opportunity for success may be.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Rather than wasting efforts attacking hardened firewalls, they instead snoop out the often-overlooked back doors to a company’s network, such as unsupported or unapproved software, abandoned user IDs, poor password protection, or the unmanaged server under an IT analyst’s desk. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Of course, there are lots of other tests that are not as well known but sometimes used by HR in the workplace, such as “integrity” tests that try to determine who will steal at work, something very much like the Minority Report movie. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' A Predictive Analytics Primer.

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Ask Atma

MAY 3, 2011

This of course is an extreme simplification, but the idea is missing from many project management cycles. If you use the limitations of your resources as a design criterion you can often engender a whole new dimension of innovation. You can even apply this discipline to aspects of personal life, like goal setting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Every single one of the big Human Capital Management (HCM) software companies, from Oracle to CornerstoneOnDemand to SuccessFactors , uses ratings as the lynch pin of its platform. They guide succession planning. And what does it mean for the software providers whose systems compel us to do so?

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