N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Throwing out standard process and procedures in favor of a handful of powerful but easily remembered principles for managing strategy will soon begin to show improvements in your business results. Engineered to Win. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1. Priority on People. That is the good news.

Process 150

Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

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 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. So it''s not just us!

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control.

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Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8