In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Information doesn’t necessarily mean understanding. One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Excessive information gets in the way of understanding. Understanding comes in many shapes and forms.

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Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. A 25-year veteran in senior human resources and leadership and development roles in four multinational companies, Harry Hutson is now an independent consultant.

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Crisis Automotive Human Resources Education 50

CEO Insider

AUGUST 19, 2022

That’s because the strategic orchestration of technologies described in this book—conversational AI, hyperautomation, and intelligent automation—will do a lot more […]. I don’t want to scare you, but the status quo is a death sentence.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 20, 2022

Once you’ve made some big plays and delivered on key milestones, the journey doesn’t end; you need to prepare to come back stronger. Being proud but never satisfied is an attitude. It’s a mentality where you always strive to do better. It doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy your accomplishments or don’t celebrate. But never being […].

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CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

There is nothing like escaping the winter of Melbourne, Australia, for the warmth and relaxation of Bali. The beaches, the rice terraces, the mountains, the beautifully kind people, the food, the vibe – there are so many reasons to make Bali your next holiday destination. But, what if you want more than a holiday? As […].

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CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

While moderating somewhat due to rising interest rates and other factors, the real-estate housing sector continues to generate record sales — particularly in certain pockets throughout the country, including cities in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and California.

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Real Estate Brand Magazine Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Marketing concepts like brands, segments, value propositions and engagement are fertile metaphors for retooling HR , but there is also a more subtle lesson here. Consider this object lesson from marketing. Human resources Information & technology Managing people'

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Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 11

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. But cloud computing does represent an architectural shift in how these resources are stored and deployed. Cloud Architecture.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

As remote work is exceedingly conventional now, companies have started to hire human resources from all around the globe. Commonly, these third parties look after customer care, information technology, etc. The most viable method of doing this is to create a local presence through your marketing team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments. In most companies, the HR staff is many times larger than the marketing department—yet while all leading B-schools have a marketing department, almost none have any HR-dedicated faculty at all.

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Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. IT management Information & technology' Improving Operational Efficiency. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Networks connect; communities care. But what kind of a village is this?

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Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Recruiting—the gathering of candidates—was long ago turned over to websites and software to simplify the process for finding good candidates in a tight labor market. Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates. Hiring Human resources Information & technology'

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Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Human resources departments are also looking globally at traditionally analytically-intensive sectors ranging from meteorology to medicine and finance to find talented candidates. This talent isn’t cheap: a top data scientist can command a $300,000 salary in the current market. Information & technology'

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Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management' Not a pleasant experience.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Every other function of the organization is as out of touch as IT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. 39% of employers did. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

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Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

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Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Gerstner, Jr. showed the world that elephants can dance by turning around IBM, a mammoth if ever there was one.

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Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? When faced with a major investment decision, how many organizations would bet their success on a gut feeling?

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Even when they were the only team aggressively using analytics, they still found it difficult to overcome the disadvantages of a small-market team with a small budget. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. Even the New York Yankees (AKA the Evil Empire in my household) now use analytics.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? But if you want to dip a toe into the water, you might think about starting with a consultant. In either case, in the meantime, start sending people to school on the topic. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. An HBR Management Puzzle. Three Questions to Ask Your Advanced-Analytics Team.

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Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market. For salespeople who have to compete against these industry giants, life can be very intimidating indeed. The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Sales operations must consider changes to market segmentation, territory management, and resource allocation. Human resources. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

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Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. It also includes cleaning data, dealing with gaps, and sifting through incomplete poor definitions.

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