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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

HR professionals can facilitate this alignment by involving customers in talent development initiatives. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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The Chicken-Egg Problem with Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

The CEO of a fast-growing technology services firm realized that the company was becoming increasingly siloed and unable to develop broad-based solutions for customers — a problem that would eventually constrain their growth. Delayering or expanding management roles?

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork. Cut layers.