HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Buzzwords such as “agile,” “resilience,” and “flexibility” have become almost banal to describe the grim reality of our daily lives and the decisions we must take, as the full effects of the coronavirus pandemic now unfold. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. However, the same DNA can express itself in different ways based on one’s environment. Third, DNA expresses itself differently based on its environment.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance. In this environment, every functional leader has a role to play in translating digital ambition into commercial success.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The retailers left standing are those that figure out how to treat disruption as business-as-usual in an industry accustomed to slow, strategic planning. It’s either adapt to the new environment or step aside and make room for a competitor who can. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Employees whose jobs are going away need help too if they are going to tell you how to improve those jobs, as I described in a previous post; they need a motive, an upside. CEO Ken Rees wrote to me that, "in an environment that's changing as quickly as ours, there are so many things to be worried about.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

A fundamental challenge of any firm – especially a huge global company such as GE – is how to balance nurturing tomorrow’s future businesses, with the resource demands for running and improving today’s operations. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

That’s how you maintain your competitive edge. It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Fast-evolving business environments.

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Advice : Help the executive understand that the single most critical competency identified for success in new jobs is learning agility. Help them write a development plan that targets the most critical areas to learn and how to best address their learning needs. Help them learn to ask questions and listen.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Give mid-level leaders a chance to take on advisory roles outside of line management in functions such as strategy, HR or finance.

Management 14

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Creating a social knowledge-sharing environment is not the responsibility of one department. A growing number of companies talk about the benefits of adopting web 2.0

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Company 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution. Thanks for sharing… [link] mikemyatt Mike – thanks for sharing.

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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419