Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

To use a sports analogy, you’re not going to ever be a really great tennis player unless you stop relying on your forehand (your strength) so that you can develop your backhand, which is inherently weaker. We all need to develop skills that don’t come naturally. Call it baptism by fire. Greater diversity of perspectives.

Company 8

Company Learning-by-Doing Human Capital Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2014

They surveyed 1,000 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) members — HR Managers, Directors, and VPs — with an average of 14 years’ experience. And yet that’s how many companies operate. Since then, hundreds of iterations of these tools have been developed, all essentially based on the same premise and theory.

Human Resources 14

Human Resources Tools Analysis Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g., But consolidation does not ensure integration.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. So venture out.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Executives have a choice in how they run their operations. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages. They can run them in a way that uses people as interchangeable parts. Both ways can be profitable.

Retail 8

Retail Operations Depreciation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For example, before performing every operation the surgical team should conduct a “time-out” 100% of the time to ensure that everyone agrees that they are operating on the correct patient and are performing the correct procedure on the right site and that any questions or concerns that any team member might have are addressed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Overall marijuana sales in states where cannabis is legal could double in 2014 to hit $3 billion, according to our estimates, as Colorado and Washington begin selling cannabis to adults 21 and over. Banking and payment processing are significant issues, and many businesses that handle marijuana directly have to operate as all-cash businesses.

Industry 11

Industry Retail Banking Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Offer professional-development opportunities. She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy. HMSHost will be launching workshops on engagement across the entire company. There is also a business case for raising wages.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. Soon after receiving their assessments, each cohort attended a two-day retreat, with the first one in August 2014 near our Michigan headquarters. After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Our human resources department takes care of that. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. We just cannot afford to make the investments.

Budgeting 78

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 78

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5 billion and record earnings.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. It takes time to learn how to operate efficiently in a new clinical delivery system, and higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay for locum tenens’ patients could reflect this learning curve. Our study was recently published in JAMA.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8