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Playing the Long Game: The Employee Retention Process in HR

HR Digest

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. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Autism's Competitive Advantage, and Challenge, in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

SAP, the German software giant, announced that it hopes to hire hundreds of autistics as talented programmers and product testers. We share a common belief that innovation comes from the edges," said Luisa Delgado , an SAP HR director, who noted the company valued the ability of many autistic people to "think differently and spark innovation."

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Should Your Voice Determine Whether You Get Hired?

Harvard Business Review

The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization. Desirable voices are invited to the next round, where they are judged by humans, while undesirable voices are eliminated from the contest.

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Why – and How – to Hire Young People Without Diplomas

Harvard Business Review

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. Spur innovation. They: Create a robust pipeline of their company’s next generation of talent.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The ED-CELL team developed software to provide the stream of RFID data to frontline staff in a usable manner. An important lesson of this initiative is that you cannot rely on technology alone to bring about innovation and change in a fast-paced environment. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. In-N-Out Burger.

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