HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These were only some of the topics The HR Digest discussed with Shannon Bagley, Executive Vice President – Human Resources at Centene Corporation. Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative HR strategies that allow Centene to compete for talent in America and abroad?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever, and the one who introduced the term “Knowledge Worker.” Human Resource Champions (1996).

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Matthew Effect is a phenomenon commonly seen in the online world, as tools that ostensibly should lower inequality by giving all people access to fantastic resources, end up benefiting the better off because they have the willingness and ability to better capitalize on these tools. Instead, focus on the applicant’s ability.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

This short-term view is not what is best for your business going forward and could be highly damaging. It is a long-term investment that will pay you great dividends in the future. Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Just as obvious: We need a robust middle class with adequate disposable income and a sense that our economic system is working in a reasonably fair way. Down the road, the middle class may not be robust enough to create demand, and the workforce may not be trained well enough to drive innovation. These firms rely on U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

One reason is many bundled-payment contracts use artificially short time horizons, not a complete cycle of care, which cause the contract to be similar to a traditional fee-for-service model. The second issue was Harvard Pilgrim’s existing IT system, which had been designed to support the fee-for-service model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Wellness programs are becoming an integral priority for most human resource managers. Greenery isn’t just an air-freshener that’s pleasant to look at, it can actually significantly boost employee well-being, reduce stress, enhance innovative potential, and boost a sense of connection.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Solutions may be available directly through digital therapeutics companies, payers, or care-delivery systems. Training programs, pilots, or short-term trials may be available. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. I got deeper into his teachings and his way of thinking and realized the 14 principles were a perfect fit into my theory, and so the full system of profound knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Systems and Processes. These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. That’s how this book came into being…there was no executive encyclopedia for those to make it long-term. Role and Job. Philosophy.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

The strongest business benefit of diversity unquestionably comes through the combination of different ideas and perspectives to create new insights — to innovate. But woefully insufficient to drive real value from diversity. Reaping the benefits of diversity requires bringing the perspectives together, not keeping them apart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Organizations and workers balance long-term bets and flexibility under uncertainty by engaging automation to adapt to frequent changes and rapid skills obsolescence. Human-automation collaboration. Today, turbo-charged.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. Biologists use the term "runaway" to describe what happens when a single criterion dominates the mating choices of a species to the exclusion of other valuable traits. So it's time to address our measurement system seriously at the firm level.

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