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

Harvard Business Review

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR. Related Video.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.” ” Hiring for Growth.

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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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