HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Analyze hiring practices by competitors and see what benefits they offer Keep an eye on research reports that are put out by organizations like Deloitte, McKinsey, SHRM, etc.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Training Industry research found that over half of learning and development (L&D) professionals have retooled or repurposed learning programs in response to the Pandemic.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Power skills are long-lasting, transferable across a number of work environments and roles, and can developed. Business development. Software and app developers. Business development is the only job description based on power skills. Behaviors like emotional intelligence, communication, and adaptability are examples.

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. While that may seem like a nebulous requirement for an employer, it’s clear your company needs to develop a culture that humanizes your employees in order to attract new graduates.

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. While that may seem like a nebulous requirement for an employer, it’s clear your company needs to develop a culture that humanizes your employees in order to attract new graduates.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. If you read the business press, you could easily assume that proficiency in social media or online data analytics now determine business success. Sales forces have NOT been replaced by social media or other internet tools.

Media 11

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that this change alone can improve employee productivity by up to 25%. into the core.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually.

Media 16

Media Productivity Products Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start?

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Within the last year, I’ve attended dozens of meetings with communicators in which a single, consistent order is dispatched: “We’ve got to incorporate social media in ALL our strategies.”. Then there are those thoughtful thinkers who pause for a moment to go deeper in understanding what it means to be strategic with social media.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper. But something happened during this same seven-year span that is about to dramatically shift this lopsided picture – the rise of social media. That’s right.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

McKinsey has been studying what kind of work is most adaptable to automation. Such new thinking will generate a whole new human resource development agenda, one quite probably emphasizing those innate human capacities that can provide a renewed strategy for success that is both technological and human.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

People under 35 spend almost four hours per day on social media , and more of that time is being spent engaging with brands. McKinsey’s analysis shows that 30% of social media users prefer social care to phoning customer service. So how can companies increase their ROI of social media customer service?

CRM 8

CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Advocates share their experiences via various social media, openly praise company employees both internally and externally, and provide unsolicited feedback on service and quality. Develop an environment where customers will not want to talk badly about a brand. Actively promotes the brand. Silence detractors.

Brand 15

Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. While that may seem like a nebulous requirement for an employer, it’s clear your company needs to develop a culture that humanizes your employees in order to attract new graduates.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

When thinking about how to develop in our careers, most of us tend to focus on promotions, projects, courses, certifications. We typically spend at least two decades in our formal education and, in developed countries, hundreds of thousands of dollars. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI /Getty Images. Don’t be afraid to chase.

Career 15

Career Drucker Guidelines Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Thomas Kochan offers unions four suggestions for restoring their relevance: 1) Develop a national on-line survey that workers can use to rate workplaces, and publish the results widely on a smart phone app. 3) Expose employers who exploit low-wage workers using social media. But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change.

Content 9

Content Survey Talent Management McKinsey 9

Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Specifically, your edge if your ability to communicate in imaginative ways, in a way that develops empathy with your listeners. By concentrating on convincing people faster with fewer words, you are building a unique skill.” – The McKinsey Edge. The thing to keep in mind is that machines are machines and we are human. Carmine Gallo. “If

Open-book 216

Open-book Storytelling McKinsey Maturity 216

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Others are driven by the desire to control or censor online media. First, policy makers need to adopt a risk-based approach.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. When your company stumbles, don’t expect its past CSR initiatives to earn it warm and fuzzy treatment from the media. Super-Green Companies Make Tempting Targets (HBS Working Knowledge).

Wireless 11

Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The industry experts had a varied take, but a remarkably consistent theme emerged: the rigid campaign-based model of advertising, perfected over decades of one-way mass media, is headed for extinction. For messages to be heard in 2020, brands will need to create an enormous amount of useful, appealing, and timely content. Getting There.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Content Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Delivering Large-Scale IT Projects on Time, on Budget, and on Value (McKinsey Quarterly). So even while GDP growth ticks anemically up in developed countries, workers don't feel better off. Social Media Tips from Tupperware (INSEAD Blog). Note: HBR wrote about this "Rapture for nerds" earlier this year. ALSO: UNICORNS.

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Budgeting Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city. Wider dynamics may be at play.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The ability to mine the digital data consumers leave behind on the internet, social media, driving apps and even health-monitoring wearables could help carriers to better target customers, price and underwrite policies more accurately, and manage claims more effectively.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%.

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Or what the vacation policy is like at McKinsey? Here are some threads: “Trying to get a job in Web development, would love your merciless critique on this résumé! Thanks to the advance of social media, these methods — what I’ve come to call mindsharing — can now be used in any arena of life.

Strategy 8

Strategy Advice McKinsey Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries. A recent McKinsey & Co. Will employers invest in developing the knowledge, human capital and capabilities of their contingent workforces and independent contractors?

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. million (or 67% of its population) gaining access to mass media.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. Business as usual?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Readership had been dipping for four successive generations, as most youth turned to social networks and other online media for news. For example, a prescient report by McKinsey in 2005 showed that classified advertisement (the true driver of profitability for many newspaper companies) had decoupled from newspapers’ economic growth.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

They recognize that former employees are out there on social media, says Sullivan, and they don’t want to “risk being disparaged on Glassdoor, Yelp, Facebook, or Twitter.” He got a great reference from his former boss at McKinsey who talked about his openness and loyalty to the firm.

Short-term 8

Short-term McKinsey Long-term Open-book 8