Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Human Resources HR will play a leading role in driving this shift. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Firms varied in the extent to which frontline operators were responsible for programming these machines, versus engineers maintaining control. What if we changed some of those incentives? These changes may provide a powerful incentive for corporate organizations to forge longer-term commitments with their workers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

One engineering company’s top team conducted an offsite at which its executives shared such life experiences (good and bad). Incentive systems should discourage self-interested behavior. Fears and dysfunctional behaviors will always influence human beings, from the playground to the boardroom.

CEO 8

CEO Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

And the skills required to fill many of the jobs returning first in the recovery — namely in engineering, IT, and healthcare — do not match the skills of Americans most needing work. We have conducted research to discover the extent of the skills deficit problem. Take initiative to retrain.

Skills 15

Skills Incentives Training Positioning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. And it was that lull in departures which allowed the organization to redesign some of its incentives, practices and culture.

Consultative 8

Consultative Competitive Advantage Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

And I'd also want team members who knew how to get people to adopt new skills and attitudes — experts in incentives, training and development, culture, communication, stakeholder management, and redeployment. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We These are "people skills.".

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Last year, 35% of 38,000 employers reported difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent; in the U.S., 39% of employers did. Nor is the skills gap primarily a problem of schooling.

Skills 8

Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

Sales organizations want flexibility to meet changing customer demands while engineering and operations need stability to drive scale and efficiency. I had a client once where the disagreements between design, engineering, and marketing were so strong that the teams couldn’t work together without arguing.

Company 10

Company Cooper Participative Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Similarly, production engineers treated their factories royally and their labor as expendable, until unions and labor laws intervened.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12