HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Some of these tools include Mural - a platform where members can organize, share and develop ideas with their team and Box – a platform where HR professionals can store and access all employee information at one place. We adopted AI throughout the employee lifecycle, from how we attract, engage and develop to how we grow and serve.

Agility 90

Agility Self-aware Innovation Human Resources 90

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2013

StrategyDriven General Business Model – Strategic Organizational Alignment. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement.

System 50

System CEO Chief Executive Officer Metrics 50

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Championing change is hard.”

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done?

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. By developing autonomy, children boost self-esteem.

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Here are a few of my thoughts!

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. The auto industry is a case in point. For example, Cree Inc.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. First, with multiple business models. So how does it work?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

In the wake of digital disruption, new media companies are seeking scale and legitimacy, while old media companies explore new business models. The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. Business models Internet'

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. At normal companies, managers look to their attorneys to advise them on how to keep their business within the law.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

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. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. But a different development is emerging in the area traditionally known as CSR. It’s as if giving back could make up for taking something away in the first place. Consumers aren’t falling for the trick.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. It makes far more sense to be proactive and explain your business to regulators rather than wait for them to approach you with a concern.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Consumers in these verticals are able to see the internet extended beyond desktops and mobile devices.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. It is clear that CIOs must lead their organization in discovering and then providing balance between efficiency and efficacy.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

Company 8

Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Companies are comprised of business units, work groups, communities of practice, and alliances with suppliers, partners and customers. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Adaptable, agile management above all sustains competitive advantage.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits. Globalization decisions are undoubtedly complex.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. For example, fleet managers are willing to pay for a service that lets them know, in real-time, where every truck is, how well it’s working, and when it will next need repairs.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. For example, fleet managers are willing to pay for a service that lets them know, in real-time, where every truck is, how well it’s working, and when it will next need repairs.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital.

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

million in 2013, when realized gains from stock-based pay represented 27% of total pay, to a high of $20.1 ” Kroc, who led the company until his death in 1984, was a pioneer in making a franchise a potentially lucrative business opportunity for a small investor, who would actively manage his or her family enterprise.

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc.,

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. CMOs are also now often judged on how well they can design and run an organization that reaches across the entire business.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. We’ve all had to adapt. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. And secondly, the business model for Cuban biotechnology has been laughably bad.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8