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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. First, they must know how to effectively scale people—helping key individuals make a massive impact across the entire organization. He began his career at the U.S.

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Still the Sexiest Profession Alive

Harvard Business Review

As the field grows and evolves, the first generation of highly trained, highly passionate young data scientists is being joined by others who hopped on the bandwagon as a simple career move, responding to market demand and hoping for steady employment. As recently as 2011, there were next to no formal training programs.

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The Importance of Spatial Thinking Now

Harvard Business Review

The problem is simple: not enough people know how to make maps or handle spatial data sets. As I look out on the world of data visualization, I see a lot of reinventing of the wheel precisely because so many young, talented visualizers lack geographical training. Design Information & technology Technology'

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. In my next post, I'll look at ways that HR functions are reinventing themselves to play their critical role in process improvement.

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You’ve Got the Information But What Does It Mean? Welcome to “From Data to Action”

Harvard Business Review

In a business-to-business context, Joël Le Bon of the University of Houston takes the question further, pointing out an often-overlooked, small-data source of useful information about your competitors’ plans and schemes: Your sales reps. He explains how to cultivate a strong flow of intelligence that can have a powerful impact on strategy.

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

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Big Data’s Biggest Challenge? Convincing People NOT to Trust Their Judgment

Harvard Business Review

Highly trained pathologists don’t do as good a job as image analysis software at diagnosing breast cancer. At the end of his career, he summarized, “There is no controversy in social science which shows such a large body of qualitatively diverse studies coming out so uniformly in the same direction as this one.