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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

You may find it helpful to also perform an onboarding SWOT analysis and employee engagement SWOT analysis to gain further insight into your recruiting process. It will help you identify the employers competing for the same talent and consider the recruitment process from the candidate’s perspective.

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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

In the late 1990’s, Home Depot’s rapid growth had outpaced its corporate infrastructure and was hiding serious cost management challenges. Their board hired Robert Nardelli from GE to quickly install the organizational foundation necessary to continue the company’s growth and better manage costs. Boards Leadership Strategy'

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

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Corporate Writing Doesn’t Have to Sound Like It’s Written by Committee

Harvard Business Review

Here’s the problem: documents like this go through review processes. And at most companies, those review processes turn your carefully written, well-designed document into an incoherent mess. In my recent survey of over 500 business writers , only 32% thought that their process for collecting and combining feedback worked well.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights. The translation involves people and processes. The latter helped to establish staged funding, adaptive planning, tranching , and other private equity processes for collaborations with the core enterprise.

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For Growth, New Ideas Aren't Enough

Harvard Business Review

Others are a poor strategic fit. The real trouble is that, after all those ideas are generated, the innovation process runs smack into the organization. Rather than rely on more-or-less random idea generation, they have made innovation into a systematic process, with dedicated, trained professionals to do it.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.