Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

You have probably hundreds of examples of experiences, and from them you can cull a sense of your tendencies and behaviors in the face of an unexpected turn of events or sudden difficulties. As you collect your own examples, compare what you did in one incident with your response in another. Watch for the patterns. About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

For example, early in my career my boss arranged for me to rehearse a presentation with her boss. There, I learned what made mergers successful and passed that information along to him. A year later, I had an interesting new job as the human resources representative on the mergers and acquisitions team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Even if it does predict who will steal, what if, for example, being raised by a single parent meant that you did not get a job, all other things being equal? Human resources Information & technology Talent management' Some of that fairness issue applies to the workplace as well. Second is the effect on motivation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' Those tools predict who will leave and when, where talent will be plentiful and scarce, and how talent will move between roles. Increasingly, you cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. Human resources Stress Work life balance' These were highly skilled, middle-aged workers with professional and technical degrees. They worked long hours, with over 25 percent logging more than 50 hours per week.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

For example, predictive analytics can reduce employee turnover costs. Human resources Information & technology Managing people' Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. If you give a dollar to human resources, or new computers, or staff training, etc., Because no one likes to fund fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

As remote work is exceedingly conventional now, companies have started to hire human resources from all around the globe. For example, newly hired or outsourced employees may want to go against or quit the company. Commonly, these third parties look after customer care, information technology, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Consider, for example, the process of checking references. Hiring Human resources Information & technology' Think of every time you’ve been hired for a job and all the steps you went through involved after you submitted your application. Every one of those can now be done by computers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. Can you give me an example?" And there are good reasons why they are so common.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Human resources. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum. Information & technology Operations Organizational culture Product development'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

He further contends that, even in areas where machines do match or exceed human capabilities, there will still be an insistence that certain tasks and decisions remain in the hands of humans. In courts of law, for example, we humans will not stand to be judged by non humans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

IBM, for example, requires all employees to complete digital training each year, which covers matters from secure handling of client data to appropriate sharing on social media sites. Education IT management Information & technology' The best defense is to provide comprehensive education programs for employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. Consider, for example, graphic designers. 39% of employers did.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. These actions certainly save money, but typically less than 5% of their total expense base.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. AT&T, for example, saved tens of millions yearly in a single department and company-wide, giving it a great advantage. Uber is another example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. Let me give you an example of that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Where will new technologies take us? What will they do to and for us?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. For example, HR managers tend to defend the status quo. And to succeed at that game, HR professionals must make fundamental changes in the way they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Companies don't necessarily realize, for example, that they can use cross-selling algorithms to increase customer depth, or lead-prioritization algorithms to increase sales conversion rates. The CDO would be responsible for: Identifying how data can be used to support the company's most important priorities. Some data use cases are obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Asking those questions is the first step. The next: to collect the right data and determine the best plan of attack.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The other necessary resource, massive quantities of data, can also be found on every virtual corner these days. If your customers have internet access, for example, you've got big data. Neither can be said of data scientists. Simply put, you can't do much with big data without data scientists.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Consider an example from the oil business. But great data scientists know they must do more.

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