HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. The dot-com bust of 2001 and 2002 isn’t exactly shrouded in secrecy, as many of the companies that failed back then weren’t “real” companies. What’s the score on tech layoffs?

Advertising 52

Advertising Rogers Finance Engineering 52

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's. At the turn of the century, photographic film products made up 60% of Fujifilm's sales and up to 70% of its profit. In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. . Can't Get Enough Leadership.

Film 70

Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Their ability to “deliver happiness” and release unexpected ‘must-have’ technologies respectively, are clearly not mere responses to the challenges they incur from their competition. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

Succession 201

Succession Goal Objective Technology 201

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. I think most celebrities and tycoons will agree.

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 4, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

Newsletter 113

Newsletter Content Human Resources Talent Management 113

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 13, 2009

As I said in my post on December 9th , I never did write the article exposing the "Dark Secret" of the training and development industry - that organizations world-wide were investing billions of dollars annually in instruction that fails to produce lasting changes in behavior and improved workplace performance. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

Training 81

Training Follow-up Human Resources Survey 81

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

These sobering statistics represent a drain on productivity that leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that engaged employees are 20 percent more productive than the average employee. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge. Connecting the U.S.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. It was so close.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Moreover, small web-based AI systems that are close to deployment offer great potential for improving worker productivity.

CIO 14

CIO System Project Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Two of the main drivers of a country’s economic growth are the size of its workforce and the productivity of its workers. The country’s only hope of continued economic success, he said, was strong productivity growth. As in, Isn’t this the exact opposite of what a chart of productivity and wages would show in the U.S.?

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. He was right there in the middle of it.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

But when we dug more deeply into their previous work history, we found titles like "Consumer Engagement Lead," "VP, CRM & Loyalty Program Development," and "VP, Direct Response Marketing" — all customer intelligence positions. Consider trailing field sales agents, or following a product development cycle from inception to market.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

He was able to remove the exterior, revealing a shiny prototype for the new iPhone 4 – a product Apple wasn’t intending to announce for months. Like clockwork, it would wait until just before unveiling a new product design to file a corresponding design patent application. Spy photos and lost prototypes are only the tip of the iceberg.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. They then researched and analyzed the markets, segmented them, and developed products. The technology was great. R&D spending fell from 6% of revenue in 2001 to 2.3%

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. In 2001 PASSUR began offering its own arrival estimates as a service called RightETA. In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data.

Management 8

Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. The conflict between the IMF and Malaysia was a sign of a tipping point in the developed economies, shifting from a world of capital scarcity to one of abundance.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). The thing about these Government contracts is that they are paid as development proceeds. At least not yet.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. If you are not building an organizational culture that rewards “Successful Failure,” employees will not take the initiative to experiment and invent new products and services. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. Their implementation was about 10 times faster than our existing product.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. We needed to develop a strategy for how he could better engage with his manager and highlight the value of his contributions. Marion Barraud for HBR. Manage the feedback flow.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

In a parallel development, the number of companies listed on U.S. The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). westend61/Getty Images.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Developing the Global Leader.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Embrace Productive Failure. TodUdom/iStock.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001. They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. The question was not whether they’d be combined but in what order, at what rate, and at what scale. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8