HR Digest

AUGUST 25, 2023

By decoding the new EEOC strategic plan, HR leaders can get a better understanding of how the organization aims to address workplace discrimination and promote equal employment opportunities. From its approach to plan implementation to its focus on tackling emerging issues, we will analyze the key highlights of the EEOC’s latest strategy.

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Strategic Planning Planning Press Release Document 97

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. ” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work. It was always: ‘Would you do me a favor?’ ’ Or something similar.”

IT Strategy 14

IT Strategy Strategy Diversity Bond 14

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In fact, research has shown that up to 50% of the resources of a typical organization are not being effectively applied to the mission and vision of the company.

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Constraint Objective Resources Goal 70

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In fact, research has shown up to 50% of the resources of a typical organization are not being effectively applied to the mission and vision of the company. Align Systems (see video).

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Constraint Objective Video Resources 101

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Perhaps an illustration of the problem was the simultaneous finding that 71% of respondents thought they themselves were ready and able to do a great job, so many appear to believe the problem lies elsewhere in their organization. A new way of leading.

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How To Technology Maturity Agility 85

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

What strategies separate winning organizations from the rest? What is required to implement strategy and execute with excellence? In his book Outsizing: Strategies To Grow Your Business, Profits, And Potential , Steve Coughran tackles these questions. Successful strategists dream then plan, measure progress, and adjust.”

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Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. But there are two types that are important for success. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Every organization needs both. Today, however, the most important capabilities and resources often lie outside of an organization. The problem wasn’t that AQI had capabilities that his organization lacked—or that they had a greater will to fight—but that the battlefield had changed.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

LG also restructured its organization by promoting locally which further endeared the brand. Another crucial facet of LG’s strategy was the launch of repair vans to remote areas & favelas with electricity generation capabilities. Glocalization” of products has made LG successful where other South Asian companies have struggled.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Organizations have a lot in common with that sailboat; they are continually buffeted by forces that push them off course and out of alignment. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. I can speak truthfully to anyone in this organization.

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System Critical Success Factor Metrics Consultative 115

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

If you are a change agent – someone who leads change from within an organization without having authority – then this is a question you are faced with every day. Your challenge is to figure out the actual steps you can personally take to make change happen in your organization. How much is it? The regular price is $249.

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Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

How can the organization create guidelines for socially responsible submissions when some negative offshoots of free speech-extremism, sexism, hate mongering and vigilantism—threaten Reddit's integrity? While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction.

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How To Leadership Competitive Advantage Consensus 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2013

So the organization started documenting standard operating procedures to capture employee know-how and wisdom. In the discussion that followed my post on balancing compliance and autonomy, I learned that there is great richness and breadth in the reasoning behind how organizations have defined standard ways of doing things.

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Efficiency Organization Bureaucracy Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy?

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. TriMedx was so successful that Ascension spun it off as an independent for-profit enterprise, which in 2017 had 1,800 clients in 28 states. What is not to like?

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

A great culture is what you get when all three of these are aligned, and line up with the organization’s espoused values. You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). Strategy and goal setting.

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Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

How can an organization both exploit and explore ? Based on my work with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and other organizations, I have found that “unlearning,” although indispensable, is extremely difficult. The entire organization has to forget a lot of what made it successful in the past.

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Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

You sometimes hear managers complain that their organization has no strategy. Every organization has a strategy: its strategy is what it does. But unless it is reflected in the actions of an organization, it is not the organization’s strategy. This isn’t true. Think about it.

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Strategy Bottom-up Organization Report 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But very few have made that purpose a reality for their organizations. Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Skeezer/Getty Images. Consider Nokia.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. General Electric has been particularly forward-thinking regarding the new skills it will need to be successful over the long term.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

There are meaningful distinctions between strategy, implementation, and execution that are helpful to running a company or business in the real world. Ignoring, blurring, or getting them wrong creates sloppy thinking, deciding, and doing at all levels of an organization. Let’s start with strategy. ” I agree.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Many organizations, she argues, struggle with a "paradox of expertise" in which deep knowledge of what exists in a marketplace or a product category makes it harder to consider what-if strategies that challenge long-held assumptions.

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Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. For example, “You seem to be suggesting that we really need to focus on elevating our gross revenue before we invest in a new IT strategy. And it hurts your image as a leader. Is that right?”

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Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. The trouble is that managers then interpret the 100 pages according to their view and aspiration of the company’s strategy. The result: one planning document, many different strategies.

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Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. We researched changes in a firm’s entrepreneurial strategy after CEO successions. They first need to within the organization to chart a new course. The organization also needs some time to adjust. Here is why.

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CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

However, true culture turnaround requires a complete psychological shift across the entire organization. It is relatively easy for new organizations to start with a clean sheet of paper in creating a culture. But for organizations that have been around for a while, the shift involves quite a bit of shedding and rewiring.

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Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Now, I''d like to address the solution to the problem by providing three simple steps CIOs can take to begin repairing the dissonance between business and IT, and guiding their organizations into the 21st century. However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

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Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In this conception, strategy is manifested as a long list of initiatives with timeframes associated and resources assigned. Somewhat intriguingly, at least to me, the initiatives are themselves often called "strategies." That is, each different initiative is a strategy and the plan is an organized list of the strategies.

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Planning Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. ” he asked.

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. And the new waves of technology keep on coming: social, mobile, cloud, and Big Data promise to raise organizations'' competitive capabilities and dependency on IT further. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

However, procurement doesn’t register on the C-suite’s radar in a manner proportionate to its growing importance within the organization, and most procurement departments are neither ready nor empowered to take on their new responsibilities. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy?

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Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. But the companies we studied believe otherwise.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies. After about a year, in the course of leading a successful meeting, she realized she had grown into the role. Add to Cart.

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Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Does your strategy capitalize on that?

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