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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. In 2015, the company consolidated several unit-level procurement functions into one global strategic sourcing organization.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

GE has been steadily reducing its ratio of SG&A expense from 18% in 2011 to a targeted 12% in 2016, and in fall 2015 CEO Jeff Immelt told CNBC he planned to take out $1 billion in costs in the next two years on slightly declining revenues. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.”

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

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