HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, it is very likely that unless companies also learn how to create an equitable compensation system, these funds will not be fairly distributed among all, equally skilled, employees. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Leaders today increasingly turn to big data and advanced analytics in hopes of solving their most pressing problems, whether it’s a drop-off of repeat customers, a shift in consumption patterns, or an attempt to reach new markets. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Insight Center. Sponsored by Splunk.

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Team Analysis Focus Group Influence 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. The number of high-skilled, high-paying jobs has not kept pace. One Chinese woman we interviewed — we'll call her Marilyn — explained the allure of MNCs when she entered the job market in the mid-1990s: "MNCs paid more.

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Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). Start with deep ethnographic research; avoid focus groups! What is the best way to disrupt a market? Practice - innovation is a skill that can be mastered.

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Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. What should it mean?

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. They pursue management challenges.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? The goal is simple: put the right people with the right skills in the right work. Finally, they put a plan in place to improve the skills of supervisors and to provide coaching for low and average performers.

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Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. 500 marketing company, we used the model to help leaders understand the root cause of what the CEO defined as a toxic culture. The answer? A resounding “yes.”

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Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

Better-quality feedback from customers and stakeholders, often because you’re asking them to actually buy something, rather than just spout opinions in a focus group. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on.

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Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10