HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ Our employees embraced our values and so too did our executive leadership. As a technology company, we are used to moving at lightning speed to keep pace with change and innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Nowhere has this been more so than in healthcare, where digital technologies were used in a wide range of ways, from treating Covid and non-Covid patients alike under social distancing measures, to utilizing m-health for contact tracing and diagnosis of the virus. . Limited transformation. By far the most common answer was time.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. At Walmart, people are at the core of our business. PHOTO: Walmart .

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 17, 2019

Recently Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Jo Swinson urged parliament to ensure that any development of AI is done with ethics front and center. For instance, the report argues that shared human purposes and values must be prioritized when developing new technologies so that a shared vision for a better future can materialize.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

I wrote that Washington suffered from a “complacency cancer,” that after 250 years as the nerve center of the most prosperous, innovative, militarily and economically advanced nation in modern history, success had gone to our political leaders’ heads. Do important meetings end with no decisions about what needs to happen immediately?

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one. While it may have mitigated the clients'' losses some of the time, the innovation was inevitably reactive, unscientific, and not robust nor holistic. Fast forward to today.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A big insurance company I know of wants to design a radical new future, so they have committed significant resources to large-scale innovation. But the board and executive committee are asking the innovation team all the wrong questions — questions that will kill any innovation project. What are you learning?"

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. Every year, FVA conducts an industry-wide technology search to identify new and emerging solutions, and it shares the results as a service to its member companies.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. This sweeping goal of total educational transformation may seem overly ambitious for someone whose work centers in learning technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Only six percent of the directors overseeing the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience. Technology is transforming the rules of businesses and reshaping industries in just about every sector. So, what role should a board play in deciding on technology investments and shaping businesses in the digital age?

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Do any of us really believe that changing the composition of a few board committees, or recruiting a few more independent directors, would have allowed HP to maintain its status as one of the most prosperous organizations ever to rise from Silicon Valley? Which leads to my second big thought about the current HP news.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership. Through our experience working alongside many of them, we’ve identified five leadership imperatives: 1. Innovative organizations are still paving the way for value transformation, and the keys to success are not all known. Find the believers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. It’s not for every company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The result has been a clear success. It is both local and national.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Never confuse charisma with leadership. Directness.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Cesare Mainardi is managing director of Booz & Company’s North American business and a member of the firm’s executive committee.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’d like to discuss three BIDMC big-data applications that required both technical expertise and leadership — and that have helped our patients, including my family and me. The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Technology can, of course, help to cement social ties, but only following an original personal experience. I resigned from my roles as partner and Executive Committee member at Egon Zehnder to instead become a part-time senior advisor. We have the technology, but we need the guidance and inspiration.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

The early American revolutionaries took full advantage of this cacophony, forming the famous "Committees of Correspondence" to gather like-minded people into communities to exchange ideas and publish them. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences.

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