First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

Human Capital 85

Human Capital Books Review Operations 85

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

Industry 271

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 271

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Penn State University''s wellness program has become every human resources director''s worst nightmare: national news. if only Penn State''s administration had had access to a search engine and a calculator. How to Avoid Penn State''s Mistakes. It''s time that HR departments operated the same way.

Human Resources 12

Human Resources Engineering Morale Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement. Yet HR leaders and operating managers were not aware of the reality revealed by the data.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Among the findings: On average, HR leaders lag far behind other professionals in their ability to operate in a highly digital environment and use data to guide business decisions. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

Skills 13

Skills Survey Technology Strategic Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. It came from a leader within the practice. Adopting AI.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "If These are "people skills.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. If you got that skill – and there’s a lot of organizations willing to pay really big bucks for people who know how to do that. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee. We’ll teach you how to sell shoes.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

And also The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle, How to Become a Servant Leader. If you got that skill – and there’s a lot of organizations willing to pay really big bucks for people who know how to do that. We’ll teach you how to fly airplanes. We’ll teach you how to do coffee. We’ll teach you how to sell shoes.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve had the opportunity to interview Charlie Ackerman who provided some illuminating insights on how Bosch is equipped to drive change in its workforce, and what lessons have been reinforced over the past year to help the innovation engine become future ready. . Vice President Human Resources, Bosch North America.

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Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? We tell ourselves that we would never do those things.

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so. Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather, executives make decisions about how to organize work, how to reward individuals for their labor, and where the boundaries of their firm should be. In aggregate, these decisions play an important role in determining how much each of us gets paid.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Consumer understanding of how to use the product. External-Marketplace.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

Reality-Based Leadership

JULY 14, 2016

For the first time, I would be leading a team, which got me a free ticket to the Human Resources boot camp for managers. In fact, they drove their BMWs (b g, moaning and whining) through the Open Door and parked with their engines idling, wasting fuel and polluting the atmosphere. They stopped the BMW driving.

Leadership 60

Leadership Policies Self-aware Morale 60

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

How we evolve reflects the teachings, experiences and instincts which are not part of formal education. Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. How to make the process productive in the longrun. About the Author.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. How did PMI approach this unique challenge?

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Sociologist Paula England has called this phenomenon an “uneven and stalled” gender revolution , and there have been dozens of studies showing how the progress in gender equality experienced during and immediately after the feminist movement of the 1970s has not been sustained through the 1990s and 2000s. And if so, how?

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8