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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Individuals and businesses can use a SWOT analysis to aid in planning and goal setting. Clearly identify your recruitment goals, including unofficial goals that the hiring team may not have expressed yet. Executive buy-in for the importance of recruitment in relation to the company’s goals. Tuition reimbursement program.

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. The goal isn’t more people; it’s less. The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. Nike is a Do Less Better company. 1 Big Idea .

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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Individuals and businesses can use a SWOT analysis to aid in planning and goal setting. Clearly identify your recruitment goals, including unofficial goals that the hiring team may not have expressed yet. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.” Internal factors should complement external factors.

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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

Individuals and businesses can use a SWOT analysis to aid in planning and goal setting. Clearly identify your recruitment goals, including unofficial goals that the hiring team may not have expressed yet. Executive buy-in for the importance of recruitment in relation to the company’s goals. Tuition reimbursement program.

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Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire

Harvard Business Review

If, as Michael Porter wrote , competitive advantage stems from how “activities fit and reinforce one another… creating a chain that is as strong as its strongest link,” then strategic fit is something that the Venetian Republic had in spades.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. Examples include Prophecy, a crowd-sourcing analytics business, and Koneksa, a consumer sensor initiative.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Becton Dickinson and others have employed a method that my colleague Russ Eisenstat and I developed—the Strategic Fitness Process —to enable employees to speak the truth to management safely about the alignment of the organization with strategy and values.