Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership. Reallocate advertising and marketing dollars to customer experience. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 72

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Productivity apps are in heaps and bounds on the market, but very few cater to the ever-evolving needs of the human resources departments. People, Business, Human resource management, Recruitment, Teamwork, strategy and leadership Concepts. Uber Conference.

Productivity 101

Productivity Products Management Conference 101

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.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Would our health insurance programs include their doctors and hospitals?

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. Like any industry, the medical cannabis sector needs everything from lawyers and accountants to human resources professionals, insurance specialists, and consultants.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is a tale first pioneered by insurance companies in the 1950s to convince older Americans that they weren't being ejected from the productive workforce, but rather had the freedom from work. Consider Prudential's recent marketing campaign, prominently featuring Day One stories — tales of the first day of retirement.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The big question mark here is the skills that young American workers will bring to the labor market. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S., workers cannot be sure that they will have health insurance or ready access to care, and, indeed, many do not.

Health Care 10

Health Care Human Capital Education Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. The issue I see is that HR management spends a lot of time on the transactions it must oversee (paychecks, health insurance claims, etc.), But it's also unusual.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Throughout my professional career, I have navigated multiple industry segments from professional services to consumer goods and served a decade+ stint in the insurance sector. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!”

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Team Insurance Human Resources Strategy 289

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Finance teams, which are not known for their flexibility to begin with, often have trouble changing their traditional planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to accommodate radically new IoT business models. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, if an employee costs $5,000 to insure and a family costs $10,000, the 30% cap on penalties increases from $1,500 to $3,000. ADA and GINA, which prohibit use of genetic and family history information for hiring, firing, or underwriting insurance coverage, would no longer apply to wellness programs.

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Insurance Committee Power Cost 9