N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

Consider these facts: According to Human Resource Executive magazine, roughly one-third of U.S. Given how damaging fear can be—and given the financial consequences—how can you assess if your organization is operating under fear’s grip? Look for these five telltale signs: CYA Rules the Day. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

To help, here are the four must-have skills of a well-rounded project manager and how to acquire them. To make sure that everything they do serves those goals, however, project managers have to have a deep understanding of how businesses operate; sort of a broad overview of how they fit into the overall puzzle.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Agapol Na Songkhla – Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Capital Group at Thai Beverage (ThaiBev). Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

As a larger operation, it gets a bit tougher. The key to this term is how much autonomy this contractor has. operates their own business. For the IRS to deem the person an independent contractor you tell them the scope of work and what the end product needs to be and the contractor decides how to complete it.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 31, 2022

For that reason, HRIS systems are a significant part of most human resource departments. The term HRIS stands for Human Resource Information System. The term HRIS stands for Human Resource Information System. 2 Tactical HRIS : This HRIS is more involved with processes related to utilizing resources.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. They are co-authors of The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , published by Harvard Business Review Press.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Erni is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employers in the world. The HR Digest: How can companies commit to truer diversity and make progress without disenfranchising men and women who come from a privileged section of society?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. The HR Digest: How can companies commit to truer diversity and make progress without disenfranchising men and women who come from a privileged section of society?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 20, 2023

The human resources sector of the business world continues to evolve and change drastically. Bureau of Statistics, about 675,000 jobs were occupied by human resource professionals in 2020. In this article, we try to break down what human resources is all about and detail what different employers might require for the job.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement. The analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Brad's comment illustrates an important truth about succeeding to the executive level.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Further Reading. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities. Human resources Strategy Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The retailers left standing are those that figure out how to treat disruption as business-as-usual in an industry accustomed to slow, strategic planning. By incorporating these disruptors into its own operations, a retailer can more easily pose challenging questions and embrace change more quickly. Insight center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

And a great potential source of talent with the right skills are professionals who change career lanes — people with experience and training in accounting, finance, human resources and strategy who leave corporate jobs to follow their passion to have a social impact. About 75% come from the private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Today's climate of employee dissatisfaction, distrust, and disengagement, as reported in numerous surveys conducted by organizations ranging from the Conference Board to Gallup and human resource consulting firms, will surely keep Scott Adams in Dilbert ideas for years. They might dearly wish you'd vote for their favorite candidate.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Among the findings: On average, HR leaders lag far behind other professionals in their ability to operate in a highly digital environment and use data to guide business decisions. HR should learn how to tie its data about people to performance and business outcomes. Map talent analytics to business outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. But different doesn''t mean deficient — or underperforming.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick. And to succeed at that game, HR professionals must make fundamental changes in the way they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Improving Operational Efficiency. For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. 8, 2019), he shows readers how to attain meaningful, lasting relationships with customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations. Human resources departments are also looking globally at traditionally analytically-intensive sectors ranging from meteorology to medicine and finance to find talented candidates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Of course I have. But it doesn’t help.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But it hasn''t yet tackled its operational challenges, the root causes of the country''s crisis. True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. The fact is that Greece is monstrously inefficient as a manager of public services.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

The benefits of operating this way are immense because we are able to tackle the elephant in the room head on, but this kind of culture is hard to build and maintain, especially as companies grow. We let the sparks fly.

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