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Knowledge Transfer Is Key To Sustaining Business Excellence

Six Disciplines

According to a recent study conducted by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), only 29% of responding organizations report that they incorporate retirement forecasts into their knowledge transfer practices, and only a third add "skills gap analysis" into those forecasts. The crux of the problem? must be deployed.

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How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts

Harvard Business Review

A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5 And there’s an active rotation program getting business people into analytical roles (many of which don’t require PhDs in statistics or deep data scientist skills).

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What to Say and Do When Your Employee Has Another Job Offer

Harvard Business Review

One side benefit of your employees getting other job offers is the “competitive intelligence” you get as a result, says Grote. The employee, an account manager, “contributed unique skills to the team. A community of alumni employees “becomes a very attractive selling point when hiring,” he says.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

Advice : Every HR Manager involved in executive development should include feedback skills in their own IDPs. Some ways to prepare are to review business information such as strategy documentation, meeting notes, presentation material, competitive intelligence reports, and country/cultural information.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

team that masterminded the campaign comprised veteran media activists and fundraisers pursuing a common enough goal (a criminal's arrest), but using skills and means unique to the digital age: a viral message, built on a 30-minute video, self-replicating among millions of real-world and online partisans across networks. Emergent, yes.

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American Competitiveness Demands Immigration Reform

Harvard Business Review

Most Americans — and both political parties — have come around to the view that attracting skilled immigrants is good for the U.S. Many immigrants are inventors or entrepreneurs , and the best ones excel at math and science at a time when companies are crying out for those skills.