HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. These relationships affect a lot of different factors, from employee satisfaction to their productivity within the workplace.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 4, 2012

Don’t manage from behind a desk, but instead get out there and mingle with people when possible. Susan Wells is a freelance blogger who enjoys writing about automotive and health news, technology, lifestyle and personal finance. The Product Management Perspective: Not new to Lead on Purpose is the adage that people are assets.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Since 2012, with the proliferation of Python in general software development, Machine Learning has become the biggest trend in the technology world. With applications ranging from the mobile world to the automotive industry, let’s break down Machine Learning in its complexity. The Mobile Sector.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

The GP client community has expressed a need for the specific competencies successful leaders use to manage people with an eye to performance. In that regard, Situational Leadership ® is a language of performance and change management,” continued Shriver. About GP Strategies. Additional information can be found at gpstrategies.com.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

As soon as staff realize this, morale may drop, and that can affect output and productivity, too. The changes in the automotive industry are massive. Automated cars may be experiencing a few snags right now, but there’s no doubt the technology will be on the market in the future. There’s also employee turnover to consider.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

That may have been the way Google started out, and search is undoubtedly still at the core of Google’s business model, but judging from the company’s diverse and rapidly widening portfolio of products, services, and interests, Page would appear to view Google much more broadly. This is the essential point. Jeff Bezos gets this, too.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill — who is a leader, no doubt about it — decided to declare war on “they.”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. You list 10 simple steps to solving complexity. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. ” And for those in manufacturing or production companies, the future may arrive even sooner. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of us hold principles that keep us from pursuing a more productive lifestyle. For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly. Where my chin should be going uphill, downhill.”

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. Self-driving capabilities can boost safety and driver productivity. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. Automotive OEMs. Of the large markets, the U.S.,

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. This is a story about leaving “our lover”, the industry we know and seeking success in the unknown. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Some organizations are already deploying elements of process change automation, while others are developing technologies that lay the foundation for it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. One person wasn't smiling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

There is a major trend in the design of physical products. Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. Infosys Technology has launched a co-creation practice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

How should smart management teams maximize the economic value of smarter systems? Something’s wrong when optimizing process technologies take precedence over how work actually gets done. Focusing on clearer, cleaner use cases means better and more productive relationships between AI and its humans.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise. We need only to be patient.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Consumers in the United States are used to buying products that are made in China. During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S. Does production really work this way? income inequality. Clark set out to disprove this indictment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The automotive industry is a useful analogy, for both safety and enjoyment. To satisfy the gun control (Safety Seeker) group and the first group of gun owners (Protection Seeker), requiring innovations in product safety is the first opportunity. Going deeper and segmenting the gun proponent consumer yields key insights.

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