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. The difference was not just in sales. It was true as well of brand recognition and financials.

Film 70

Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Many years later I learned the technique for using black light technology. Using this as their premier presentation forum, these executives mapped out in stories and pictures staged changes that would be made over the course of a few years to keep the company solvent, productive, and thriving, not just surviving.

Attrition 317

Attrition Compliance Delegation Audience 317

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 240

Succession Goal Objective Technology 240

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 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. In November 2001, U.S.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. Technology to the rescue?

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Instead, we evolved our company into a human resource development product business. Our flagship product since 1994 has been a breakthrough highly customizable multi-purpose web-based feedback survey system called 20/20 Insight GOLD. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

Training 81

Training Follow-up Human Resources Survey 81

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.

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

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.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Good to Great was published in 2001 way before social media dominated the scene. Things like rundown hotels, lousy food in a restaurant, rude clerk in a retail store, long lines to be served, long waits on hold, not keeping up with technology, and poor management seem to be pervasive in our society. I’ll take the latter.

Collins 54

Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 54

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. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 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

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

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. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. Many of these suppliers are small- and medium-sized companies that tend to be less productive than the larger firms, but are nonetheless critical for employment.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. While Steve Jobs ran Apple, he drove the vision but put strong operating execs in each domain – hardware, software, product design, supply chain, manufacturing – who translated his vision and impatience into plans, process, and procedures.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 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 12

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Worse, most don’t have a quantified view of profitability by customer, product line and transaction. billion vs. $1.2

Team 11

Team Price B2B Tools 11

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. So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2000, labor-intensive products constituted 37% of all Chinese exports; by 2010, this fell to 14%. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

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 11

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company, the Inditex group went public in 2001. While Pfizer's advantage from its technology innovation and Apple's advantage from product innovation were imitated by the competition in 5 years, why does Zara continue to profit from its business model innovation?

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

Innovation could come to the rescue by boosting the productivity of the remaining labor force. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall. Similarly, with fewer but more productive workers in the population, per-capita GDP may stay constant.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 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

APRIL 12, 2011

What is interesting is Google's philosophy of launching early and quickly, and their perhaps too-quick closure of some products. The product was announced with formidable press and very high expectations amidst the belief that it would revolutionize e-mail and other forms of communication. Google Wave (May 2009 to August 2010).

Succession 15

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

As organizations transition from product-centric to customer-centric, CI leaders are ideally positioned to build a data-driven business case to justify the organization's marketing technology and business intelligence needs. 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

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

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 3, 2014

With the advent of Nielsen’s Bookscan in 2001, publishers could begin to receive point of sale data from physical bookstores. In my book I talk about “disadvantaged” industries with big data, and one category is industries—like automobile manufacturers and consumer products companies—that have an intermediary between them and their customer.

Books 8

Books Information Technology Content Analysis 8

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

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