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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Effective leaders in this space have the ability to optimize supply chain operations, streamline processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Within the organization, new courses charted by the CEO or Board may have broad implications for effective procurement, and leadership needs to be prepared to respond agilely.

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119: Goals Gone Wild: The New Performance Management | with Kris Duggan of BetterWorks

Engaging Leader

Research shows no one is happy with annual performance reviews—not executives, not managers, and not individual contributors. Even HR teams responsible for performance management aren’t convinced annual reviews provide value.

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How Can HR Contribute to Business Growth and Help Envision Future Success?

HR Digest

HR strategies for business growth take into consideration the existing potential of the workforce in comparison to its future potential to assist organizations in scaling up their operations carefully. Gartner’s HR trend of 2024 showcases HR technology as one of the top priorities for the next 12-24 months.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Matrix Organization: Powerful Questions to Reduce Angst and Build Trust

Let's Grow Leaders

The matrixed teams help companies maintain normal operations while focusing cross-functional departmental resources on big or complex projects. When done well, matrixed teams are more agile than traditional organizational structures and make it simpler to collaborate and communicate across departments.

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Managing Performance When It’s Hard to Measure

Harvard Business Review

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. Conventional performance reviews can also undermine a company’s agility and lead to missed opportunities.