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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. Selection Methodology. Find a strong and well positioned employer brand.

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. Take the example of Germany: Between 2003 and 2015, R&D expenditure in the business sector increased by 59%, reaching a record high of 157.4 billion euro.

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Tele-Mentoring Is Creating Global Communities of Practice in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In 2003 this collaborative learning model grew out of Dr. Arora’s frustration that he could serve only a fraction of patients in New Mexico with hepatitis C. Innovating for Value in Health Care. I like to think of Project ECHO as an operating system, akin to Apple’s. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it? Firms deploying a visionary approach also follow a distinct thought flow.

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Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

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A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year).