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Say Yes to HR Generalists—They Keep Companies Afloat

HR Digest

Safety compliances : Ensures safe working conditions for all employees and safety measures to adhere to regulations. Legal Compliances As an HR generalist, it will often fall to them to be aware of the legal requirements of both country and state to ensure their practices fall within the guidelines.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Having founded a data management company and worked with hundreds of organizations over the past 20 years to execute their information management and analytics initiatives, I’ve found the groups that are able to successfully utilize their company’s analytics technologies often take the following approaches: Build a team.

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How To Choose The Right Records Management System For The Organization

Strategy Driven

A complimentary information management strategy will assist organisations in managing their unstructured information. An electronic RMS simplifies the management of records throughout their lifecycle. Manages content across repositories. Can manage physical, digital and hybrid records. Conclusion.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

They fulfill this role by delegating responsibility and establishing control systems such as budgets, directives, audits, and oversight to drive fiscal compliance. I believe the driving factor for these failures is that many projects are conceived and scoped only to address a symptom, rather than the disease of too much information.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

How did the finance function at Group Health, ThedaCare and others make the transition from business policeman -- focused on oversight, surveillance and compliance -- to coach and adviser on improvement activities? In four main ways: Provide information managers and the front line can use.

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Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. Welcome to the new world of IT.