HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

These were only some of the topics The HR Digest discussed with Shannon Bagley, Executive Vice President – Human Resources at Centene Corporation. Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative HR strategies that allow Centene to compete for talent in America and abroad?

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Human Resources Diversity Real Estate Agility 52

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The risk is that when faced with the intense pressure an external shock, such as a recession, places upon managers, they can be tempted to take short cuts, reduce costs to the bone, and fundamentally break these implicit contracts, both through reducing pay and benefits, but also shortchanging employees in a variety of ways.

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Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 119

Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

These days, businesses have more options than ever before to customize the live support experience — and technology is playing an increasingly vital role in keeping customers satisfied. Believe it or not, dogmatically squeezing every last cent out of wages and employee costs can actually lead to higher spending in the long term.

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Call Center Operations Software Cost 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

This short-term view is not what is best for your business going forward and could be highly damaging. It is a long-term investment that will pay you great dividends in the future. Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions.

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Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. To win the talent war, companies need to change.

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Digital therapeutics are technology-based solutions that have a clinical impact on disease comparable to that of a drug. They primarily use consumer-grade technology such as mobile devices, wearable sensors, big data analytics, and behavioral science and can be delivered through web browsers, apps, or in conjunction with medical devices.

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Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Upon reading about the study, I wondered if the idea of such long-term research could be attempted in another field that touches all of us: work. Inspired by the Framingham research, our People Innovation Lab developed gDNA, Google’s first major long-term study aimed at understanding work. Innovation? Efficiency?

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Long-term Survey Short-term Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Fortunately, American companies have part of the solution for the skills gap right at hand — if they reverse the long-term trend of paring back training. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. For instance, at one U.S. An Accenture survey of 1,088 U.S.

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Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

If you are not familiar with the term, the Internet of Things refers to a dramatic development in the internet''s function: the fact that, even more than among people, it now enables communication among physical objects. For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. Innovation Internet Strategy CES'

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Supply Chain Business Model Software Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The benefits are compelling: increased flexibility, speed, and innovation as well as cost management. As organizations confront new competitive challenges and disruptive technologies, an agile approach to talent provides both a means of rapid strategic change, as well as a way to increase strategic capability.

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Agility How To Short-term Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. First, we analyzed the effects of short-term cross-cultural experiences in a longitudinal field experiment. In the U.S., immigrants are almost twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born U.S. Immigrants represent 27.5%

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

PMI corporate culture identifies the need for employers to seek long-term achievements while proposing corporate goals and objectives. . The HR Digest: Many companies profess to be fully committed to ensuring collaboration between different subcultures, but when it comes to delivering on that promise they often fall short.

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Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Organizations innovate or update policies by having people challenge them and set new precedents," says Rousseau. If people are being laid-off around you, if you're not on great terms with your boss, it's not a good time to ask about anything that looks like special treatment," says Cappelli. Know when to take what you're given.

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How To Policies Short-term Quinn 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Exponential technology change. Organizations and workers balance long-term bets and flexibility under uncertainty by engaging automation to adapt to frequent changes and rapid skills obsolescence. Today, turbo-charged.

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Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. Biologists use the term "runaway" to describe what happens when a single criterion dominates the mating choices of a species to the exclusion of other valuable traits. The lesson: Return on Equity, like peacock tail splendor, is a very poor guide for allocating resources.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12