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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. Articulate the connections between talent and strategic success, as well as the principles and conditions that predict individual and organizational behaviors. Vincent Tsui for HBR. And yet progress in HR analytics has been glacially slow.

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To Succeed in Tech, Women Need More Visibility

Harvard Business Review

A study by Jennifer Glass and coauthors in 2013 found that women leave STEM fields at dramatically higher rates than women in other occupations. We asked them to identify the most-critical factors for success at their level. Some of the women in our focus groups described being turned away when they requested big, new opportunities.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) ” I believe celebrating success is critical, but it’s important to make it personal and authentic.

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Your Company Should Be Helping Customers on Social

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, the percentage of people who have used Twitter for customer service leapt nearly 70%, from 22 to 37% from 2013-14. The most successful social media interactions are personal, genuine, and relevant. in the past two years. To scale that connectivity requires integrating social media data into your CRM system.

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Why Women Aren’t Making It to the Top of Financial Services Firms

Harvard Business Review

To find out, Oliver Wyman surveyed 850 financial services professionals from around the world (both men and women), interviewed over 100 senior female executives globally (C-suite and board members), and held focus groups with Millennial women working across a number of financial institutions in the U.S.

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What You Need to Know About Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. For one, he notes, “focus groups are dead.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights. Its recognition and success evolved into the national ad campaign: “We Do Chicken Right.” Its CEO (John Y. That’s how I will love you.