HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. For workers, AI and ML can help amplify productivity by taking on mundane data entry tasks so that employees can focus on more creative and high-value work. New HR Trends (2022).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the early 20th century, Frederick Taylor promoted the profitable benefits of business efficiency, productivity, and increasing worker output. Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

A consumer decides to buy an established product category or subcategory, such as SUVs. Not only are these brands phenomenally successful – they are examples of product categories where competitors are nearly irrelevant, says branding guru David Aaker. A brand, perhaps Cadillac, is then selected. Whole Foods Market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

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Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

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