HR Digest

APRIL 25, 2023

“Why Good Employees Get Fired”— Every employer dreams of having a team of high-performing employees who can help the organization achieve its goals and objectives. Downsizing or Restructuring This can lead to the departure of top talent, even if they are good performers.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies are now restructuring with measures such as layoffs and hiring freezes as they enter the last phase of the boom-bust cycle. The tool is credited for mitigating bias in hiring and complimenting the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals. This trend isn’t new. Amazon isn’t unique in this approach.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Agile HR can be defined by its principles of responsiveness that encourage restructuring of work to facilitate immediate feedback, planning, and action. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team. What is Agile HR?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

They found “on average, 69% of employees don’t believe in the cultural goals set by their leaders, 87% don’t understand them, and 90% don’t behave in ways that align with them.” We designed and use the Commitment Continuum to assess behaviors showing how real that commitment truly is.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

According to the survey results, the 3 biggest drivers of cultural transformation are: Internal redefinition of the company’s business model, goals, or performance levels. Technology trends. That’s because bold, audacious goals are often perceived as daunting and unachievable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And what happens as advances in technology constantly change how customers and employees expect to interact with your company? Perhaps not too surprisingly, technology plays a central role (after all, we’re a technology company). How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

An education technology startup hired a sales leader who came from a large, well-respected firm. Achieving goals was everything. Leaders who are intimidating can use their muscle to implement difficult changes that past leaders avoided — for example, an organizational restructure that disrupts an existing power hierarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Forced technology transfers and theft. Now let’s turn to the forced transfers or theft of digital technologies. Although the U.S., ” These subsidies are a major problem. In May, the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

An early example comes from an organization restructure we have been working on. For one EY client, we are using data science to make organizational design decisions that accelerate strategy goals. We can say precisely what behavior change is needed to make a new process work, and then monitor improvement in real time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. This model made sense for a few reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. First, what strategic goal would virtual care help achieve today? Without better data, we will know little about the true effectiveness of virtual health care technologies. There are solutions to this problem, but they require material restructuring and can be costly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Propose three-month goals to your manager, getting rid of as many useless tasks as you can. When more responsibility is added to what you already do , you have an opportunity to restructure your work and present your plan. Take a look at everything on your plate. And here’s how to do it: Vote it off the island.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In the face of relentless technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, global competition, and so on, planning seems like pointless wishful thinking. It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Now, strategic planning has fallen out of favor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

In their minds, shaking things up is a decisive way to achieve goals. There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

I would recommend a few corporate household remedies: Refocus on the goal. Strategy only works if the primary goal is clear to everyone. Think about where your mistake has taken you, refocus on the true goal, and then re-chart a path towards achieving it. Get yourself out of the way. Regroup, but with flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation. This increases the speed with which innovations spread across various countries and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Appreciating the essence of technology and the technology of essence is key.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

If the Chinese government sticks to its decision to stop funding unprofitable solar-panel manufacturers and support a revamping of the industry, more bankruptcies and restructurings are sure to follow. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. If a business needs help in recruiting, customer service, marketing, training, or other areas, the company restructures its local organization to provide support. Being a CEO is harder than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers. The question forced the team to deconstruct the business and reconstruct it based on technological developments and competitive moves. Most companies believe they have better feedback systems than they actually do.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal is balance: A coherent company strikes a balance where the right product and service portfolio naturally thrives within a capabilities system consciously chosen and implemented to support a deliberate strategy or way to play. Finally, many industries are responding to the pressures of the last few years by differentiating themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up. Working against NASA as well was a heritage of exploration: unique space missions that pushed technologies and space travel to the edge. They remember that increasing profits isn''t the only goal. They think about the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. This is about more than technology. In research spanning 20 years, we closely examined 36 companies in eight industries to find out why companies are struggling.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. The goal here is not UX for the sake of UX, but UX as a medium and platform for value creation and capture. ” He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Once upon a time, “organization design” meant bringing in a slew of consultants to oversee a large-scale organizational restructuring, most often intended to take out big chunks of cost during an economic downturn. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. ” We have known they do since they were introduced among British miners whose industry had been disrupted by new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Your goal is get out of your own head with a fun and “active hiatus.” ” Lees suggests saying something like: “My former company went through an extensive restructuring. The day after John Denning* lost his job at a mobile technology company outside Boston, he took a long weekend in Maine. Go camping.

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