HR Digest

MAY 4, 2024

The gig economy, marked by independent contractors and freelance gigs, is reshaping employment landscapes, driven by technological advancements, flexible work preferences, and economic factors. The transient nature of gig work can lead to a lack of camaraderie and alignment with company values, complicating collaboration and communication.

Strategy 52

Strategy Compliance Management Policies 52

Experience to Lead

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has existed for over 60 years, recent exponential developments have transformed this technology into a central part of daily life. AI presents exciting opportunities for businesses to become more client-focused and data-driven, but this technology still relies on humans to make morally sound decisions.

Ethics 52

Ethics Diversity How To Document 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2023

Enhance your EVP by offering unique benefits, such as flexible work arrangements, unlimited paid time off, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, or performance-based incentives. Leverage Technology and Social Media With technology on the rise, social media plays a vital role in reaching potential candidates.

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Commitment Career Incentives Media 100

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2020

Expanding your business globally will allow you to access a far more diverse market and significantly increase your earning potential. Fortunately, these challenges can be overcome with market research and careful planning. Many different business tasks can now be automated using technology.

Strategy 103

Strategy Globalization Operations Incentives 103

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

They make sure that marketing efforts are producing enough leads and that sales managers are converting a reasonable percentage of these leads into sales. They know if the accounting department is lowering the company’s effective tax rate by using tax credits and incentives. Good leaders serve. Service runs both ways.

Quality 150

Quality Wireless Human Resources Incentives 150

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 24, 2012

Thanks to a combination of technological advances, emerging global markets and demographic shifts, both the kind of work we’ll do – and how we’ll do it – is undergoing a radical transformation to better mirror the needs and demands of today’s global economy.

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Diversity Globalization Productivity Products 230

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Neal explains: “ Bringing about change by using ideas requires leaders to hire people who are willing to use their creative thinking skills to make innovative technology happen. Michael shares: “ Is “emotional compensation” the key to attracting and retaining talent in today’s tight labor market?

Leadership Development 334

Leadership Development Development Leadership IAS 334

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. R&D Tax Incentives , with their data suggesting that reducing the cost of R&D by 10% results in an increase in innovation by 10%.

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Resources Innovation GDP Education 87

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. The logical performance period for long-term incentives is one that matches those cycles.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

But drip irrigation is not a new technology, it has been around for over 120 years, and many companies have developed and marketed it. Netafim now controls over one-third of the market for this seemingly commoditized micro-irrigation equipment market. The reason is a problem common to almost all new technology adoptions.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Mission Statement Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a shame Obama — and the Western press — didn't pay attention to the far bigger story happening in many of the countries on his visit: real, game-changing innovations from emerging markets that could point the way for currently stagnant Western firms. And relatively simple online technology magnifies these incentive effects.

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Innovation Marketing Incentives Education 15

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. I'm troubled by the generic approach of "treating everyone the same." We end up ruled by the elite.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

An attractive loyalty program may also help you attract new customers as it gives people an incentive to spend money with your business. Advancements in technology mean that all businesses now have the opportunity to expand globally. Take your business global. Hire a social media manager.

Strategy 10

Strategy Customer Loyalty Loyalty Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. The diversity of this sales ops role cuts across two dimensions. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

That’s because those industries spur the collision of digital technologies and cutting-edge business development, also brought about by tech-savvy workers and R&D investments, and generate jobs and good wages in a period of sluggish economic growth. Access to domestic and global markets through modern infrastructure.

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Diversity Industry Globalization Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. had a diversity metric. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. This decrease is driven by a corresponding increase in shopper marketing expenditures.

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Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Entrepreneur 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Marketing 101 principles still apply. That means you need compelling incentives to have people join your community. We are on the cusp of a new business era.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

So can designing new kinds of incentives, recognizing and rewarding the behaviors you want to encourage, and bringing in new, more diverse viewpoints and types of talent to the company. Too many companies wait for the annual strategic off-site to roll around before they address the changing dynamics of their market.

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Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

In a world with severe healthcare resource constraints, mobile digital technology can be a major " force multiplier." In this respect, health care is no different from other economic sectors that have gained enormous efficiencies and improved outcomes through the use of modern information and communications technologies (ICT).

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Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

If salespeople aren’t clear about which markets and products are priorities, they’ll create their own rules about how to spend time. The manufacturer’s product training for the resellers’ salespeople emphasized technology specifications. Do salespeople know what’s important?

Incentives 8

Incentives Metrics Construction Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Diversity and inclusion. But hiring a more diverse workforce is only half the equation. Integrate Cross-Border Experience into Your Business.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. Digital growth is appropriately a priority for a diverse swath of organizations, and boards need to get with the program,” he writes. are picking up steam.”

Media 9

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. Some see them as a natural evolution, and a smart choice for many non-professional investors.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

For example, if a researcher wants to understand how employees respond to particular incentives, the results of a study measuring how undergraduate students in the U.S. respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures. But we should be.

Metrics 10

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Giving up any form of revenue or market share at a large health system these days would be a courageous decision, but these health systems can make up the revenue (and more) by focusing on performing highly complex, specialized procedures—which often have the biggest of all profit margins—and building a national market for those procedures.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. So why would emerging markets still adopt this practice? Basing a system on fee-for-service payment.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Nathan earns about $130 an hour as a psychotherapist, and he initially made $34 an hour driving for Lyft, with incentive pay, though this has dropped over the four months he’s been driving to $15-$20 an hour. Yet he told me, “If I didn’t like going out to do it, I’d probably stop.”

Motivation 8

Motivation Survey Incentives Attrition 8