HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Image credit – Freepik According to the World Health Organization , approximately 12 billion working days are compromised every year as a result of depression and anxiety, annually costing up to $1 trillion in productivity. people experience mental health problems in the workplace.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

I think to some extent it also helps my productivity. Consider Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization by Daniel Forrester. This is what Forrester argues (successfully) actually can hurt the business more than help it. Wall Street Journal had a great article that adds to my thoughts. My creativity.

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Power Forrester Leadership Pipeline Blog 189

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. It is still 100% family-owned -- now by the three elderly offspring of Forrest Mars Sr.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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B2B Forrester Media Content 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

We do this ourselves, noting who mentions Groundswell, "Bernoff", or Forrester (my employer). But shifts in Twitter sentiment — a surge in mentions of your competitor's brand, for example, or a rise in posts that associate your product names with words like "love" or "sucks" — are indicators that changes in sentiment are brewing.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. We were all in Newport, Rhode Island, to attend the Navy’s prestigious leadership development course known as Command Leadership School. They’ll be more engaged, more productive, and more trustful of you as a leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

To get these companies going, we recommend starting small and succeeding quickly — with a Facebook page around one product or service, for example. He is senior vice president, idea development, at Forrester Research. I recently worked with a Midwest hospital and a defense contractor in this stage.

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Technology Management Forrester Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Located at the home office, she developed long-term relationship with her clients. John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3 to low-cost countries by 2015. You offer your clients more for less.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Marketing and finance share a fully transparent analytics platform that all parties can access to run what-if scenarios, optimize marketing-dollar allocations across products and markets, and get course-correcting feedback on the performance of those allocations. Financial accountability for marketing performance has become front and center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Redmond's three-years-in-the-making answer to the iPad, the Surface, is a high-risk product that is self-cannibalizing, says Sarah Rotman Epps on her Forrester blog. Will Microsoft eat itself alive? To make Surface a success, Microsoft would need to aggressively expand distribution, which would alienate OEMs in its partner ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Why haven''t we seen more and more companies earning excellent scores in Forrester''s Customer Experience Index ?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

According to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Workforce Recontact Survey 2017 , just 30% of global information workers at healthcare providers indicated they’ve received training on how to protect workplace data, and only 38% are even aware of their company’s security policies. What behaviors are we hoping for?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

More and more, as I talk with companies about their next big product innovation, they can't get far-flung ideas out of their mind. These ideas are better than your more linear, long-term product ideas, and they're easier to bring to market. All that clear glass is clouding your vision. To get this right, you have to think right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. Upon arriving, she flatly refused the CEO’s offer of the CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Over the past five years, we have followed the rise of customer experience efforts from small outposts to central players in executing company strategies, especially as firms have faced growing challenges in maintaining meaningful differentiation based on product innovation alone. Our organizational culture wasn't optimal to say the least.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Of course, digital technology can be used to improve or augment existing ways of operating, but it also opens entirely new ways of doing business based on digital networks like Uber, Airbnb, Yelp, and the Apple Developer Network — which is where a great deal of the digital value resides. You manage what you measure.

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Business Model Human Capital Real Estate Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The company then assembled a weekly 50-person meeting to review product status information contained in spreadsheets, addressing each question individually before sending the responses back to NASA. According to Forrester , for every hour a product teams spends on heads-down work, they spend 48 minutes waiting on decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

James McQuivey, principal analyst and vice president at Forrester, suggested that executives should sit up and pay attention to HoloLens. As an executive, you care about this because in Forrester’s Technographics survey data, there are 7.2 This one comes to mind.). Is there any reason for them to pay attention to HoloLens?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In the movie Forrest Gump , the protagonist becomes a very rich man due to a natural disaster and its unforeseen business consequences. When he first enters the shrimp boating business, Forrest catches no shrimp. His fortunes change when a hurricane strikes and his boat is the only one to survive the disaster.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Forrester Research reports that online spending in India will grow to nearly $75 billion by 2020, from $12.1 The average age of its citizens will be a youthful 29, and many of them will be eager for digital products. Although only one-fifth of its 1.3 billion people have online access today, India has already overtaken the U.S.,

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