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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. Engineered to Win.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing.

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The Big Picture of Business- Evergreen Business Strategies. Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

Strategy Driven

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Other types of data have similar strategic value.

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HR Leaders Need Stronger Data Skills

Harvard Business Review

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. Yet it''s disheartening because it''s yet another organizational function that appears to not be able to keep up with the pace of business, staying stuck in a transactional, as opposed to strategic, frame of mind."

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. The same analogy holds true for accountants, engineers, doctors and architects.

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