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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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