HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. The Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) will give protection and resources to workers who join in the U.S. According to company filings, the median pay at Alphabet was $258,708 in 2019.

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Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

In various industries, eForms play a significant role in helping a company achieve compliance. If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. What Is An Electronic Form? How can eForms Benefit Your Business?

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Software Compliance Learning Curve Cost 66

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

With the government selling the last bit of its stake in the company just a couple of months ago, the company is keeping its head down and moving forward. Mary Barra has gotten a very powerful and supportive response from the public, starting with a special shout out from President Obama during the State of the Union Address.

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Strategy Automotive Human Resources Engineering 98

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

In an interview with The HR Digest, Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Amazon, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace.

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Quality Engineering Technology Resources 59

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

“Companies in which leaders at every level nurture a culture where employees can develop a sense of ownership in what they do are the companies that excel.” “Effective leaders have a vision of what they want their company to become, and have a strategic sense of how to get there.” ” -Stan Silverman.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When that happens, you don’t need a lot of rules because people make judgments that are in sync with what the business needs and how the business operates to get there. Now go optimize your talent — it’s the engine that drives strategy execution. You just finished reading The Three Keys to Employee and Company Fulfillment !

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz Company who erected a factory in Leamington in 1908. Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. Leamington, a little town in the province of Ontario is the tomato capital of Canada. That’s right, one day.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 25, 2012

The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company’s Human Capital Investments Jac Fitz-enz AMACOM (2010) A brilliant explanation of “the first holistic, predictive management model and operating system for the HR function” Those who have read one or more of Jac Fitz-enz’s previously published books know that (..)

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Human Capital Books Review Operations 85

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. Cross-cultural differences.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Penn State University''s wellness program has become every human resources director''s worst nightmare: national news. if only Penn State''s administration had had access to a search engine and a calculator. This wellness mania now affecting most companies suggests that HR departments need more C-suite supervision.

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Human Resources Engineering Morale Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With those gaps, companies must now focus less on the fixed supply of in-house people and more on the capabilities they need to get work done.

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Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. It came from a leader within the practice. Adopting AI.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. But the insights won''t be useful unless companies change core business processes and employee behavior. Clicking on these pages shows a company that is educating customers, not hawking products.

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Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own. Being timid leads nowhere.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Among the findings: On average, HR leaders lag far behind other professionals in their ability to operate in a highly digital environment and use data to guide business decisions. Finding ways to improve HR’s digital acumen and data skills can challenge even the most well-resourced companies. Insight Center.

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Skills Survey Technology Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

She was on her way home from two days in Arkansas visiting her company’s largest facility. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. Everyone knows that the company hit hard times. ” “Is there any way the company can regain your faith?”

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

ManpowerGroup found that 80% of companies lack a reliable picture of their total workforce. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The partner replied, “Human resource management.”. That sounded way better than “Sales Rep for Acme Company.” Off to San Francisco I went to be a human resource management associate at a Big Six consulting firm. How she sold her product was key to her success as one of the top five sales reps in the company.

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Advertising Human Resources Consultative Career 11

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As a company whose success depends on change management, Cognizant puts a premium on its internal culture. From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Becky Schmitt talked with The HR Digest about the various programs which have put Cognizant on the global map as one of the top companies for star performers.

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Schmitt Diversity Career Human Resources 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When Cedric Coco , senior vice president of learning and organizational effectiveness, joined the company in 2008, he quickly moved its learning and development group closer to the firm's internal performance improvement consulting team. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We But it's also unusual.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. Companies are right to be worried. Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 11

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These are the points at which every company must assess its own status and chart the process forward: The Big Picture. The company has grown too rapidly.

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Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve had the opportunity to interview Charlie Ackerman who provided some illuminating insights on how Bosch is equipped to drive change in its workforce, and what lessons have been reinforced over the past year to help the innovation engine become future ready. . Bosch takes great pride in its Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

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Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? Well, not necessarily.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Versions of this are ongoing at companies such as Netflix and Alibaba. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My company, CareerBuilder (which operates the U.S.'s And the skills required to fill many of the jobs returning first in the recovery — namely in engineering, IT, and healthcare — do not match the skills of Americans most needing work. We have conducted research to discover the extent of the skills deficit problem.

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Skills Incentives Training Positioning 15