Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

Laurel Rutledge is the vice president of Human Resources for Bayer MaterialScience LLC. She is responsible for providing human resources strategic leadership to meet the challenges and objectives of the business. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

Survey 50

Survey Human Resources Engineering Diversity 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

If these companies had followed a strengths-based leadership approach, they would have likely hired an internal or external candidate who’d built their entire career in the field of Human Resources, where they could easily leverage their domain expertise. Stretch assignments were used 76% of the time by the companies surveyed.

Company 8

Company Learning-by-Doing Human Capital Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction. Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? The answer seems to be a confusing “both.”

Flextime 9

Flextime Human Resources Career Talent Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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. Capability development is also very important to a company’s essential experts, especially gaining knowledge and applying it to meaningful projects.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

A 2014 Gallup survey of U.S. Those in the owner condition were asked to think about and write about an idea, project, or workspace that they felt they personally owned. Most of us spend a lot of time at work. Yet a lot of people feel their jobs are not as fulfilling or engaging as they could be.

How To 8

How To Participative Survey Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

That was when sports radio personalities Boomer Esiason and Mike Francesa harshly criticized NY Mets player Daniel Murphy for missing the first two games of the 2014 season, because he was on paternity leave. Human resources Managing yourself Work life balance'

Sports 9

Sports Human Resources Policies Media 9

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. Since 2014, Genesys has graduated nearly 70 associates from the United States, Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, and South America. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

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? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Start with a survey.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

trillion in 2014. And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. Usually companies look at their historical data and project them into the future. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. In fact, global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 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. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. Impressive, but that’s only the start.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Team-specific human capital is important too: when people move together, they tend to do better than when they do it alone. Boris has also found that starting something new in a new company (what he calls “exploration”) is much harder than taking over an existing project, team or unit (“exploitation”). An HBR Insight Center.

How To 8

How To Banking Human Resources COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

A 2013 study from the University of Sydney found that a lack of sound privacy was far and away the biggest drain on employee morale : Further, a 2014 study by Steelcase and Ipsos found that workers lost as much as 86 minutes per day due to noise distractions. But an open office has downsides. Provide loud spaces, too.

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Bottom-up Environment Brainstorming Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Cross-border data flows have grown by a factor of 45 over the past decade, and they’re projected to post another ninefold increase by 2020. trillion in 2014 alone. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In 2014, Michael Callahan, then head of customer experience at Hulu, had a mystery on his hands. At one 170,000-employee big box retailer, linking the feedback systems would require approvals from three different senior executives, the CMO, the chief human resources officer, and the president of retail. You and Your Team Series.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

To make the project manageable, cross-functional teams — including doctors, assistants, nurses, patients, and administrative staff — opted to first transform half of the operation, comprising the 50-physician primary care clinic. The front line then used PDSA to test new ideas in a series of rapid experiments.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. We have annual sales projections. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal. Can’t change the weather or the world. So, why bother trying to change anything else. Learn to live with it.

Budgeting 79

Budgeting Quality Risk Management Strategic Planning 79

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Bottom line: sophisticated technologies will serve to complement and enhance the creative talents of humans by freeing up their time that has – to a great degree – been occupied by rote tasks such as completing insertion orders for ad buys. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. They are in the same boat as Human Resource, where changing the title from personnel did little to foster strategic roles, or business development functions which often are regarded as “just sales.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

For instance, the commercially insured population suffered 158,895 heart attacks and had 126,710 diabetes-specific admissions in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. The chair of the Health Project , an industry-financed group that evaluates wellness programs and annually bestows the C.

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Insurance Committee Power Cost 9