HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

By the end, you’ll have a robust understanding of how HR can be the catalyst for transformative change, empowering your workforce and positioning your business for long-term success. As the pace of change continues to accelerate, the need for HR’s strategic guidance and tactical expertise will only grow more pronounced.

Management 64

Management Agility Training Policies 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This, in turn, saves considerable resources, both in terms of time and money. The Integration of Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic term but an integral part of several industries, and fleet management is no exception.

Transportation 108

Transportation Management Efficiency Long-term 108

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

Gains perspective and balances the tension between daily tasks and strategic actions that impact the long-term viability of the organization. The leaders surveyed rated themselves in terms of their effectiveness in the 13 critical leadership competencies. Working across boundaries.

Self-aware 83

Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

On the other hand, if you’ve ever experienced being iteration-led in an organization, you know that it feels like you’re tinkering and focusing on the short term but ultimately missing out on the large-scale opportunity. Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration.

Productivity 111

Productivity Products Development Short-term 111

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

One of the most common of these stems from the ongoing debate over whether culture is more important than strategy in terms of the organization’s long-term success and viability. How can we become more agile and responsive if we assume we only need to operate from one vantage point or perspective?

Power 269

Power Strategy Agility Innovation 269

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Regardless of whether or not they have served in the military, today’s business leaders would be well served to possess the characteristics of a warrior in their pursuit to achieve sustainable growth and long-term success. A warrior’s heart has served my family well in both business and life in general.

Brand 353

Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Mary Bilbrey, CHRO at JLL (NYSE:JLL) : Bilbrey leads a team of more than 90,000 professionals that deliver thought partnership, problem-solving, and tactical support to help drive JLL’s business goals and priorities. Prior to joining Verizon, she led HR for both Corning and PepsiCo respectively. million employees worldwide.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Resources Diversity 469

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Oracles, fortune tellers and soothsayers of all kinds have long claimed to be able to see the course of future events, and they’ve often found a receptive audience in humans who want desperately to know what’s just around the corner. The art of predicting the future is nearly as old as civilization itself.

Efficiency 59

Efficiency Disaggregation B2B Uncertainty 59

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

In fact, there’s almost a universal resistance to long-term thinking in many organizations because we’re so focused on today’s problems: Are we making our numbers? Tactical: Moving the pieces to get where you want to go. Did the products get shipped? Did we resolve the customer issue?

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning How To Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Maybe it’s been asked another way — How long will this take? These are all variations on the same question — how much effort is this going to cost in terms of time and/or money? Instead, here’s a four-step, tactical approach to budgeting. How many stories can we get into this next sprint?

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Project Agility Software 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. How long can you survive the repetition of the same mistake? And that alone is all well and good but we’ll miss the opportunity to create these short term wins unless we debrief. Debriefing has many benefits. At its heart, debriefing is a change agent.

Short-term 64

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. I have to balance between strategic intent and tactical, short-term decision-making. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability.

Drucker 11

Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 11

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Instead, it is a long drive across the entire country that requires a look at the roadmap to avoid the roadblocks while understanding the routes and the detours along the way, long before the drive begins. They have to be agile in their approach to use surprise against VUCA to impair its ability to cause unwanted and unnecessary chaos.

CEO 393

CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chain management has immense potential to enhance business operations, improve productivity, and increase a business’s agility to changing market trends and customer demand. Increased communication between these parties is vital for a business to increase market agility and reduce production and dispersal delays. Final Thoughts.

Supply Chain 106

Supply Chain Agility Management Operations 106

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Eagles have a farsighted vision—which they combine with great tactical agility. They can deal with immediate priorities yet never lose sight of long-term goals. Many managers are foxes, more focused on tactical short-term decisions than on achieving strategic long-run goals.

Servant Leader 112

Servant Leader Leadership Styles Short-term Tactics 112

HR Digest

AUGUST 10, 2020

Here are three ways organizations can use this momentum to transform their culture for the long term. By cultivating a growth mindset culture, organizations can not only sidestep the hazards of crisis next time one comes along—they can leverage the current crisis to reinvent themselves and emerge stronger and more agile.

Organization 98

Organization Crisis Diversity Long-term 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. The downplayed downside of this convenience is that there is usually no long-term profit from such ventures.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Although there are different definitions of this term floating around, when I talk with executives, I use it to mean managing the big issues rather than the small ones. That is, they can think about the strategic rather than the tactical, focus on the future rather than the present.

Micromanagement 10

Micromanagement Constraint Middle Management Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. Sprints break an otherwise long, complex process into sizable, achievable chunks that can be accomplished at greater speed.

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Classroom-based training is, after all, typically easier and less expensive to implement; it’s evidence of short-term thinking, rather than long-term investment in the leadership pipeline. Although traditional leadership training can develop good managerial skills, strategists need experience to live up to their potential.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2018

The term “acqui-hire” is a nifty neologism that enjoys the virtue of being well-defined in M&A circles while suffering the vice of being misunderstood. The issue, of course, is that these deals are rooted in tactical urgency rather than strategic awareness. Lance Grandahl/Unsplash. ” Insight Center.

How To 8

How To Agility Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

He listens to the presentation, focused on evaluating which businesses have strong competitive positions and laying out long-term investment plans. The word "strategy" is a war term, defined as a plan developed in the face of competition. The central tactics : Is proprietary information integral to our success?

Strategy 12

Strategy Metrics Tactics Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Many enterprises will continue to operate this way in future, but additional capabilities are increasingly important: the strategic value of organizational capabilities such as agility (around the customer), connectivity (between complementary offerings), and innovativeness (to explore novel opportunities). So far, so straightforward.

Organization 8

Organization Strategy Short-term Agility 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Neil Patel Neil provides constant value to his readers through amazing long-form content with tons of strategy built into every post. You must commit to the long-run and be willing to experiment, measure, and adjust as needed.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind. They do well in jobs where they must close a lot of transactions every day and where long-term trust is not important.

Succession 15

Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Almost without fail, this tactic is a trite and clichéd attempt to somehow insinuate that speed in decisioning is a weakness, and that quick decisions are somehow synonymous with reckless decisions. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419