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Say Yes to HR Generalists—They Keep Companies Afloat

HR Digest

According to Zippia , the technology industry is the highest-paying employer for HR generalists , but their services are an essential component of every company and field. Safety compliances : Ensures safe working conditions for all employees and safety measures to adhere to regulations.

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

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail. How did we get here?

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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. IT management Information & technology'