HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . This has less to do with rapidly evolving jobs, and more with the discrepancy between the skills people have and those needed for their future employability. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” he said.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

I advocate teaching the 60% what they can do to deliver value even in difficult circumstances (working with non-supportive leaders or in difficult markets, for example). Leadership: ensuring leaders at all levels who think, feel, and act in ways that deliver sustainable market value to employees, customers, investors, and communities.

Charan 13

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”

Technology 8

Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

Banking 17

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 17

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The companies recognized that many of the problems in the agriculture industry — such as low productivity, resource scarcity, and market volatility — posed threats to their businesses and were likely to intensify as demand for food increased along with the global population. Empower widespread innovation and action.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 9

Brand Globalization Company Development 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts. I am no longer limited by geography.”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Managers and administrators tend to be better educated than the workforce at large and typically possess technical or functional skills.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. As the definition of and market for the latest thinking evolves, SU is in a unique position to fluidly respond. And that would be interesting enough. Is that scary? For many, yes.

Participative 16

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 16

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7 It will provide capacity in markets that struggle with labor capacity either through the difficulty of the work itself or the cost pressures they face. The need for investment in technology.

TCO 74

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Successful strategy execution calls for skillful orchestration of sometimes opposing forces and competing needs. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts. In particular, there are four core tensions that leaders need to balance.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 15