HR Digest

JANUARY 15, 2022

That’s because working from home allows them to cut down on transportation expenses. . Collaboration among diverse teams is key. For example, if you run a marketing agency, you may work alongside clients on projects. Remote work is here to stay for a long time. It also reduces absenteeism and increases employee engagement.

Absenteeism 130

Absenteeism Video Transportation Tools 130

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2019

When you find a venue for example, you need to think; is this the perfect place for a conference on *subject A*, rather than is the venue fancy and stylish. There are some great and diverse conference venues. You need to pick somewhere easily accessible via public transport. What is the message you are trying to convey?

Conference 50

Conference Succession Tips Budgeting 50

Women in the LEAD

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As I've been watching recent reactions to change in many directions, I've thought many times of Mrs. Rosa Parks' example, as the well-known Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. I've always loved the leadership example Rosa Parks set for all of us as women. She set the example of the power of feminine dignity.

Leadership 69

Leadership Open-book Transportation Learning-by-Doing 69

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For example, at the end of World War II, the people of Japan faced historically unprecedented difficulties. For example, Ohno said that time workers spent waiting – for parts, for others to complete work, or for anything else – was waste. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Respect for the experience, diversity and talents of team members and departments Develop an action plan to transfer ideas and skills gained from program into existing Culture. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together. Each team member will hold one string.

Team Building 76

Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Be sure to welcome diversity of thought. If you want to eventually build a new website, for example, put a date on the calendar for when it MUST be completed. Related posts: When you can’t encourage your team… Megabus: Innovation in Bus Transportation. Ask questions such as, “What are we doing well?”

Innovation 30

Innovation Team Brainstorming Transportation 30

Women in the LEAD

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As I've been watching recent reactions to change in many directions, I've thought many times of Mrs. Rosa Parks' example, as the well-known Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. I've always loved the leadership example Rosa Parks set for all of us as women. She set the example of the power of feminine dignity.

Leadership 40

Leadership Open-book Transportation Learning-by-Doing 40

Women in the LEAD

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

As I've been watching recent reactions to change in many directions, I've thought many times of Mrs. Rosa Parks' example, as the well-known Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in the US. I've always loved the leadership example Rosa Parks set for all of us as women. Also,  Also, men could learn from it too.

Leadership 45

Leadership Letter Open-book Learning-by-Doing 45

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Globally, many leading organizations have introduced workplace policies to enable flexible work, recognizing its benefits for staff retention, morale, commitment, diversity, recruitment, and being an employer of choice. But despite employee demand and some high-profile examples, it has proved harder to get broader adoption of those policies.

Transportation 8

Transportation Policies Rogers Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. To mobilize public support for new investment, leaders must change the conversation to align diverse interests and emphasize cross-sector partnerships, region by region. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? For example, Japan just celebrated the 50 th anniversary of its famed bullet train network, the Shinkansen. The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

— that I hope adds diverse and contrarian thinking to discussions of a driverless future. electricity grid, for example, is one of the largest and oldest and is famously insecure. As for any transportation system, trust is essential. The threat : Autonomous driving will rely on a digital information backbone to operate.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. She backed up these general statements with a specific example of “resolving unexpected issues in a timely manner.” Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Within 24 hours, orchestrated School’s relocation and reopening.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

While they can start to tap into the global reserves of shale oil, which exist literally everywhere, developing the reserves in most places from China to Argentina will require a significant investment to develop the shale ecosystem and supply chains needed, in addition to the infrastructure to gather, treat, transport, and store the crude oil.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The right kind of shared minibuses, with Wi-Fi, folding work desks, and privacy screens or headrests, could work for business commuters, for example, while families with children and elderly or disabled riders would be more likely to take flexible vehicles with easy entry, generous storage space, and seats that can be reconfigured.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. ” It may turn out that the Model 3 was a great example of over-automating an assembly line.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Be an example, not just king of the mountain in a kid’s game. Being artful in leadership means seeing the beauty in people, in the diversity of their feelings and desires, and finding unique solutions for every demand. A thoughtful leader always appreciates diversity. A thoughtful leader always appreciates diversity.”

Leadership 88

Leadership Diversity Learning-by-Doing Licensing 88

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Not only do you need to bring together folks with diversity of thought and experience, but those leaders also need to challenge long-held orthodoxies that can limit progress. For example, there is no agreed-upon way to measure urban revitalization. Reimagine roles. This is not an easy task.

Metrics 9

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Transportation (e.g. What’s more, the on-demand economy is beginning to attract a diverse group of consumers. It’s also reaching a diverse geographic spread in the U.S., The on-demand economy is attracting more than 22.4 million consumers annually and $57.6 billion in spending. Ebay, Etsy), with 16.3 Instacart) at 5.5

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling. Work toward inclusion, not just diversity. The good news is that multiple employers are already innovating in these areas. is an innovator in this area.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In terms of mobility, give priority to public transport and use all modes available in the best and most efficient way possible. I also believe that "private" vehicles without private ownership, for example, the Velib in Paris, will increasingly play a larger role in urban commutes. To make this happen you need creativity.

Transportation 14

Transportation Short-term Creativity Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

This is only one of countless examples of the problem with most corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts these days. Great brands seek to create shared value by establishing brand relevance in a diverse and increasingly resonant set of areas – from industry to community to target customer, brand positioning, and ultimately values.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For example, senior scientists explained to one of the new non-scientists that a primary obstacle in enrolling elderly patients for dementia trials has historically been getting patients to and from clinical-trial sites. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

As a result, we have used data visualization in places as diverse as our annual reports or our annual report app , which is obviously geared toward investors. We''re involved in everything from transportation to health, curing people to energy to building things. We wanted a diversity of points of view on a diversity of subjects.

Storytelling 9

Storytelling Airlines White Paper Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Another major industrial company moving to address water risk is ITT , the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat, and control fluids.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Take, for example, the challenge of bringing about any major innovation in healthcare. The same is true in the energy and transportation sectors, and in the realm of “smart cities.” Mechanisms would have to be designed to enable these diverse people and ideas to be combined. Big companies have all these processes in place.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This became a problem for the company last week, when the taxi-hailing company found its app blocked by a German court due to a violation of the country’s Passenger Transportation Act. Never mind that operating a taxi system, to Uber’s likely dismay, is still only a very early example of the sharing economy.

Operations 8

Operations Globalization Hotels Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

The hiring of oDesk contractors for this project, for example, was itself an oDesk assignment.). iCEO is sophisticated enough to use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk micro-work platform, for example, which corporations from a wide range of sectors already use.

Software 8

Software Management Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. We identify five major groups (see chart: "Manufacturing is Diverse"), in which the inputs that define success vary. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.) Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In February, for example, I met a 31-year-old woman in Bangladesh who told me she came to Dhaka with her husband (whom she married at 15) to create a better future for their family. Safe spaces and systems that enable discussion about threats and alleviate concerns like unsafe transportation, gender-based violence, and depression.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Unfortunately, in sub-Saharan Africa, many labs use outdated diagnostic equipment, and the public health systems lack the infrastructure needed to ensure that patient specimens are properly transported and analyzed. Redefine ROI. Learn in order to teach.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. These rooms are entirely manufactured off-site at an assembly line and transported to the hotel site. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

We want education, healthcare, and transportation that works — but we're reluctant to pay the costs of these public goods. We want thriving, diverse cities — but we self-select into neighborhoods of like-for-like. Consider one tiny example. Witness, of course, the rise of the gated community.

Abell 16

Abell Hammer Construction Morale 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Advanced manufacturing technologies, for example, are starting to reshape the supply chain road map that’s been in place for the past few decades by reducing the importance of scale in production, increasing flexibility, and enabling production to move closer to end markets. As an example, look at the digital skills gap.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8