In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

Strategists and Strategic Planners may read the same periodicals and have similar destinations in mind, but there is a difference between the two. Strategic Planners, at the outset, are disadvantaged by the definition of their role. They are staffers, not line managers. Internal Strategic Planning managers do the same thing.

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HR Digest

MAY 25, 2023

HR digital transformation involves using data to guide every aspect of human resources, from payroll to benefits to performance management, to learning and development, to rewards and recognition. The use of digital HR streamlines management workflows for human resource professionals.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 23, 2011

by John • October 23, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Innovative. Steve Jobs managed to harness the resources of 49,000 employees to introduce and successfully market a slew of breakthroughs. Human Resources. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

What is human capital management? Human Capital Management (HCM) represents a shift from traditional personnel management to a comprehensive approach focusing on optimizing workforce productivity and effectiveness. Image: Freepik What is Human Capital Management (HCM)?

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. 3) Manage your managers and make them lead by example. 8) Capture and manage ideas and suggestions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

Fortunately for me, I grew up in strategic environments and I learned to balance operational challenges with strategic opportunity. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this. Ultimately, the less pressure you feel from day-to-day issues, the better the opportunity to think and act strategically.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Integrating one digital worker into day-to-day operations can cost mere thousands of dollars, but it can do as much work as multiple human employees. In this way, putting innovation to work (quite literally) offers other benefits as well. It isn’t rocket science; it just takes a concerted effort to make improvements.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Perhaps human resources leaders are spending their money in the wrong places. One of our clients was a $1 billion services company with a plan to grow to $5 billion. They had a detailed strategic plan in place that included increased collaboration and innovation necessary to grow the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Accordingly, Welch’s successor, Jeff Immelt, drove GE to achieve growth through innovation. Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture' In fact, we defined growth as a process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

.” The reform comes as part of a new long-term economic strategy, dubbed Vision 2030 , and its national transformation plan aimed at weaning the Saudi economy off its addiction to oil, helping Saudi Arabia stay competitive in a low-oil-price world. Human resource recruitment and management in the private sector is another variable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Is it the responsibility of your company’s most senior managers, or should it be a more distributed responsibility? What frameworks and information do your leaders require to ask good questions, have better conversations, and make robust strategic and organizational choices?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Integrating one organization with another requires intimate knowledge of both organizations: services, values, capacity, deficiencies, innovative excellence, products, structure, economic strength, culture and nuances too numerous to cover here. We have a strategic plan for every person affected by this organizational integration.

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Outsourcing Strategic Planning System Human Resources 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. Yet it''s disheartening because it''s yet another organizational function that appears to not be able to keep up with the pace of business, staying stuck in a transactional, as opposed to strategic, frame of mind."

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. These are managers, concerned with structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision and the effects of management decisions. ’ Management leads in strategically planned companies.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 8, 2017

Sometimes, senior management doesn’t think core values are a big deal because they think every employee already knows how they are supposed to act to succeed. While the company has been in business since 2007, our management team had some of the same objections that I initially mentioned. Strategic planning process?

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Mistrust of senior management. Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Innovation is something other companies do. The latest strategic plan isn’t one. There’s a rift within top management and everyone knows it. Too many meetings. No one arrives on time. Finger pointing.

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