Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Today I have a great collection of HR and talent management webcasts from Hewitt Associates that I would like to point you to.    Enjoy!

Human Resources 150

Human Resources Library White Paper Outsourcing 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But how to keep educating ourselves is a complicated question. Should you take a more targeted approach, with a short-term executive education program? As an adjunct professor for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business , I’ve taught multiple classes for degree programs, as well as executive education offerings.

P&L 8

P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

” Its signatories include United Health Care’s Optum subsidiary, Aetna, virtually all the major wellness companies, and Mercer, the largest benefits consulting firm. PMPM, although that excludes incentives, consulting fees, internal staff costs, extra medical expenses, and several other items.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America. Fear is dead as a management tool. What’s the ROI on a handshake? The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The best idea should win.

Blog 302

Blog Brand Media Influence 302

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Strategic plans necessarily involve hypotheses that certain outcomes (increased revenue, improved margins, higher ROI) will result from a given set of initiatives. But too often those assumptions are supported by secondary research, educated guesses, or assumptions rather than field tests. Banish fuzzy language.

Strategic Planning 9

Strategic Planning Planning Tips Disintermediation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. All of this can make clients, who are paying high fees for innovation consulting, nervous. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

Without an understanding of basic financial concepts, executives are not well-equipped to make decisions related to financial management. managers are uninformed about the basics of financial literacy to face the challenges of the future. Why is financial literacy at all levels of management a basic need?

Finance 63

Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You hire an outside consultant to conduct a two-day training session. So how can organizations provide soft-skills training that produces results and gets a high ROI? It’s also ideal for managers, who in the past have often seen talent development as an overwhelming task. See if this rings true. People engage in it.

Training 51

Training Meyer Process Talent Management 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen described in his mega-bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? (with Karen Dillon and James Allworth), the ROI of work is immediately apparent. Every single relationship, business and educational outcome improves when the brain is positive first.” But that’s actually backward.

Christensen 14

Christensen Gilbert Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The potential is vast, but how managers cut through the AI hyperbole to use its power to deliver growth? In our consulting work, we often encounter managers who struggle to convert AI experiments into strategic programs which can then be implemented. And how will they pick project ideas that produce real ROI?

Technology 8

Technology Constraint Tools Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Take inventory management, for example. Inventory management software offers data-driven automation and takes the guesswork out of ordering stock while freeing inventory and production managers to focus on more critical activities. #3 4 They Focus More on Developing Leadership Than Managing Staff. Final Thoughts.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50