HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We led focus groups, created advisory and steering teams, and engaged our executives in workshops and feedback sessions. As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard.

Human Resources 132

Human Resources Focus Group Crisis Definition 132

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 9, 2013

Analysis of organizational structure of how the work actually gets done vs. how the organizational chart claims it gets done. Focus groups to determine what is working well. Identification of needed accountability and authority of the organizations managers and employees. Interviews of existing managers. What do you think?

Leadership Development 154

Leadership Development Skills Development Leadership 154

Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Consider using a focus group. On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. Consider a stakeholder analysis. I cast the vision for the change, get their feedback and answer questions.

Stakeholder Analysis 58

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Edmondson 58

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Use a focus group. On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. Do a stakeholder analysis. One of my goals is getting as many answers to questions as possible on the table before the change is implemented.

Stakeholder Analysis 43

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Influence 43

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 5, 2013

Focus group – On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. Stakeholder analysis – I wrote about this concept HERE. I cast the vision for the change, get their feedback and answer questions. (And,

Stakeholder Analysis 83

Stakeholder Analysis Edmondson Learning-by-Doing Focus Group 83

Ron Edmondson

MARCH 30, 2016

Use a focus group. On major changes, I like to bring in a group of people who are generally supportive of my leadership, but represent all the major groups within the church. Do a stakeholder analysis. One of my goals is getting as many answers to questions as possible on the table before the change is implemented.

Stakeholder Analysis 30

Stakeholder Analysis Learning-by-Doing Planning Edmondson 30

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its goal is to ensure that marketers don’t blindly focus on any one area without due consideration for the implications and tradeoffs to the organization’s broader goals. The goal is to help marketers find balance. They are: Observation is where customer behavior reveals new insights.

Marketing 9

Marketing Reis Brand Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2012

The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. The company interviewed teens in focus groups before launching the product to find out which features to include in their new internet-enabled TV.

Power 14

Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 14

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Pay Equity Analysis: How to Create Fair Salary Structures With the number of tools and data collection resources available to us, it’s impossible for companies to claim ignorance of the pay disparity and the struggles personally encountered by their employees. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

But before the hiring team starts measuring candidates’ culture fit, they need to be able to define and articulate the organization’s culture – its values, goals, and practices — and then weave this understanding into the hiring process. This would be a key signal of culture fit.

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Environment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. My analysis of the women’s responses, including their career decisions and the support they received from their managers and organization, led me to identify four main ways they develop and advance toward their goals: They want power and influence.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

The goal is simple: put the right people with the right skills in the right work. Step 2: Apply a conceptual model to guide the analysis. To answer these questions, the analytics team created focus groups of senior Sprint executives and managers, who reviewed the feedback and made informed decisions based on the data.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Now in its second year , the initiative’s goal is to create a world where no woman dies from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Businesses gain their strategic focus from understanding the “customer” ? Problems as complex and heartbreaking as maternal mortality will require continued analysis and constructive solutions.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

As much as we’d like to think that all the devices in our cars (and the cars around us) are talking to one another just to keep us safe, they’re also talking about us — and transmitting our data for analysis. Of course, when devices track our behavior on the job, we’re keenly aware of being watched and evaluated.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

As she explains in her “ Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis ,” there are five zones of elasticity. “A marketer’s goal is to move his or her products from relatively elastic to relatively inelastic,” she continues. This is not what companies tend to do in practice.

Price 8

Price Debt to Equity Ratio Marketing Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The most common approach is to conduct regular surveys or focus groups to determine which aspects of health and wellness are important to employees, and which initiatives are not a good use of time. There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8