HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale. Support local community projects or organize donation drives to give back during the holiday season.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. I call this one Beta. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Decentralization Idea Generation Content Document 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Entangled Talents: a 21st-century Social Learning System.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Get an outsider’s opinion. Bringing in a fresh perspective can make all the difference.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To build healthy debate and an open communication system, companies need to learn how to avoid groupthink from spreading within their organization. Having regularly scheduled talks with every employee at work can help build rapport with them and make them more likely to open up to their managers and HR.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. Human resources Managing people Work life balance'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Citrix tools offer a wide range of collaboration solutions, including meeting online, sharing and accessing large files, and answering calls with a virtual phone system.

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Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Managers can boost employee creativity by fostering meditation and relaxation not only in their employees, but also in themselves – the more relaxed and mindful managers are, the more they will value and reward creative ideas in others. 3) Assign people to tasks they love.

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Creativity Incubator Motivation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The bars reflect how two teams of managers, a senior team and a junior team, rank this firm on the five stages in the innovation process – idea generation, selection, and implementation, as well as sustaining innovations and diffusing them. She writes : “The same few problems crop up, over and over again.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes? How well can management interpret and apply findings to the decision process? Do performance measures provide an early warning system for problems? How do you handle crisis management and preparedness?

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 66

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. But he also realized that the existing system was not working as needed. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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Media Team Building Idea Generation Learning-by-Doing 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

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Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

These stats, from a recent survey by Globoforce and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), show that HR has lost confidence in the traditional review process. It's an industry awakening to a system that is no longer effective on its own for the way companies and people are managed today.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 7, 2016

According to a study, a darker office environment fosters superior creativity and raw idea generation. With a system in place to deal with incoming mail, documents and files should help you to work more efficiently and eliminate time wasting. ​ Click "READ MORE" to find out what the other 29 work productivity hacks are.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2008

Dittoheads: People who are in perfect alignment on an issue, am idea, or a belief system. Idea hamsters: people who always seem to have their idea generators running. Does this system come with LRF support?" (LRF Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives. The communicator: leadership as stage management. These people are focused on the new. They possess a great capacity to solve extremely difficult problems.

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Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. To adapt is to make the world more predictable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. However, even in these more open processes, the designer or policy maker ultimately decides which ideas and preferences are included in the solution.

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