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 HR professionals, using data for people analytics can help them drive better business results and improve workforce management. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022.

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Today’s C-level executives understand peripheral management of their critical applications, data systems, and shared services is not an effective, efficient, secure, or financially-feasible effort and require more robust, permanent solutions for assimilation into their BPM. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

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. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

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. Yet managers continue to follow Taylor’s “hard” approach — creating new structures, processes, and systems — when they need to address a management challenge.

Taylorism 12

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 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. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company?

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8