HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

This analysis will help you identify the specific training needs and ensure that your program targets the areas that will have the most significant impact on your business. Embracing Technology: From Simulations to Virtual Reality In today’s digital age, technology offers endless possibilities for training.

Training 98

Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The prevailing thought is that more data is better, especially given advancements in tools and technologies such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. In my conversations with business leaders about how they use data analytics, a primary focus is on technical, large-scale systems.

Team 12

Team Analysis Focus Group Influence 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Enormously more, actually, than the best survey research, focus group, or doctor's interview — the highly subjective and incomplete tools we rely on today to understand behavior. Consequently, analysis of Big Data is increasingly about finding connections between people's behavior and outcomes.

System 15

System Analysis Retail Focus Group 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The Global Empathy Index uses a combination of publicly available information and proprietary data drawn from its surveys and from social and financial feeds — including textual analysis of over half a million social media interactions. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Alibaba Group.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

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. A large consumer electronics manufacturer we recently worked with had launched a new hybrid TV and internet technology focused on teens. They'd certainly done their homework.

Power 14

Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Take Mountain Dew, for example.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

Technologies are beginning to pinpoint how impressions cause expressions - specifically, by interpreting social media comments and automatically linking them with their televised source, be they TV shows or ads. A yawning feedback gap opened that researchers have tried for decades to fill with focus groups, dial tests and surveys.

Media 13

Media Audience Brand Advertising 13

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

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Producers can have a mechanism in place to effectively predict profitability to secure investment capital.

Film 16

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Producers can have a mechanism in place to effectively predict profitability to secure investment capital.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks, and are as important to the big-data equation as the numbers themselves. Big data's signal problems won't disappear as the use of smartphones and other digital technologies increases.

Technology 8

Technology Wilde Long-term Objective 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

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

. “But it seems like, in hindsight, this was the result of short-term disequilibrium between the capacity of the masses to use this technology and the limited capacity of these elites to use it. A lot of these elites may have not been keeping up with modern communication technology and got caught unawares.

Short-term 86

Short-term Media Tactics Focus Group 86

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Businesses gain their strategic focus from understanding the “customer” ? To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work. in this case, that’s the mother-to-be herself. Corporate social responsibility Health'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn?

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

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. Sprint's call volume rose to twice as high as their competitors.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

Not least in the online search abilities, speech and translation features, and image recognition technology of my employer, Alphabet. Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology.

Company 12

Company Training Technology Wireless 12