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3 Things We Learned About Crisis Management from the Collapse of SVB

CEO Insider

The dust from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is nearly settled, but as we look at the new landscape, we need to take a hard look at what can be learned from it.

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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. Here are some of them: Human Resources: You can use eForms for position changes, timesheets, vacation requests, and employee reviews. The last thing you want is a software solution that has a steep learning curve.

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What to Do When a Good Employee Stops Trying to Grow

Harvard Business Review

But what do you do when someone you manage gets to the top of their learning curve — and doesn’t really want to be pushed any further? Employees at the high end of their learning curve also require change. Stagnation can breed entitlement, an environment hostile to creative thinking and innovation.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Insight Center.

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Five Reasons Social Media Won't Consolidate

Harvard Business Review

Yes, there are always costs associated with changing platforms (especially in terms of the learning curve of your employees). So for that desired "integrated solution" to take hold, it has to undertake continuous and aggressive innovation so that it can support each major new social network and compete with newly emergent social tools.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Human resources. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum. Channel compensation for subscription services with recurring revenue can be a particular challenge.).

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How IBM Is Changing Its HR Game

Harvard Business Review

It has found you need innovative ways to train productive interaction and collaboration for such new IBM hallmarks as global teaming, crowdsourcing, mass collaboration, and endeavor-based work (where the company moves employees as needed for short periods of time, to contribute particular skills to a specific project, in the manner of a movie crew).