HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Among the varied insights, there are some common elements that we can see emerge, which reflect the trends of the markets overall—increased automation and tech, AI innovation, demand for flexibility, and the need for reskilling. You might be able to help both the employees and yourself find some balance by fully understanding the role of HR.

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Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. It takes an active HR department and research team to keep their eyes on shifting trends in order to find innovative ways to retain employees.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Countries around the world are faced with considerable skills, productivity and social inclusion challenges that require novel and innovative approaches to skills development. “Skills improvements complement other key building blocks of an innovative and inclusive economy,” the authors explain.

Skills 72

Skills Innovation Education Restructuring 72

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. Identify their gaps in knowledge and skills and work personally with them to fill those gaps. John Fedele/Getty Images.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They hired consultants and launched a series of restructuring and improvement projects in warehouse and shipping logistics, branding, renovating stores, revamping product lines, customer service training, IT systems, and the like. Poor communication skills and processes compound the problem further.

Teamwork 104

Teamwork Restructuring Project Micromanagement 104

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. There's a lot at stake here.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think about the future.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Scenarios demand expository and analytic, as well as literary, skills.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Fix leadership skills first. Experiment with frontier technologies. joshua sortino/unsplash.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Technology makes reviewing, refining, redesigning and revising both jobs and job descriptions as dynamic as a commodities trading desk. Have people been commoditized? Of course not.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Innovate ferociously. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Data consolidation.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For example, Google’s restructuring into Alphabet highlighted just how much the company is spending on new businesses, from self-driving cars to space exploration and more. economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. To promote innovation and local service, the company hires people with entrepreneurial backgrounds and gives them freedom to design promotions, sales programs, and marketing events however they like.

CEO 8

CEO Metrics Leadership Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Being transparent about the level of expected change and the different skills executives will need to manage the change gets the dialogue above the table. This is about more than technology. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There is a palpable sense of systemic instability in the face of political, economic, technological, social, and indeed meteorological uncertainty. Each director must dig deep and demonstrate wisdom, fortitude, skill, determination and vision, and bring that to bear around the board table. 2) Technology. From News Corp.

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Uncertainty Politics Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Perhaps one — in which she suggests restructuring job responsibilities to make sure they don't require more technical qualifications than they really need — might bear some thought today.). Kept in 'women-type' jobs, they have not efficiently used their aptitudes, intelligence, education, and skills. More >>.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Historically, managers passed on knowledge, skills, and insights through coaching and mentoring. It used to be that what you learned was valuable for years, but now, knowledge and skills can become obsolete within months. Ignite managers’ passion to coach their employees. Managers are now overburdened with responsibilities.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Among these: Downsizing firms lose valuable knowledge when employees exit; remaining employees struggle to manage increased workloads, leaving little time to learn new skills; and remaining employees lose trust in management, resulting in less engagement and loyalty.

Company 8

Company Short-term Altman Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. They perform the essential task of marshaling people with important skills to manage crucial activities. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. These free tech tools can be directly applied in a work role or used simply to build one’s creative and technical skills. Put these four technologies in your tech toolbox. Docs.Zone PDF Converter: docs.zone.

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Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Although an overlay is less disruptive than restructuring the organization of care, it adds cost and essentially treats the symptom of faulty organization rather than the cause. Resources tend to flow to services that seem to be the most profitable or whose advocates are most skilled in internal politics.

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As digital technologies permeate all aspects of their operations, companies around the world anticipate the need for massive change over the next five years, according to a new global survey by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Read More from DXC Technology: The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees.

Technology 8

Technology Company Content Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

“Back in the 1980s, college graduates and low-skilled people would be in every firm,” said Bloom. Today, much like our neighborhoods, companies seem to be more segregated by education and skill. Workers are sorting by soft skills, too, as the top-performing firms vacuum up the most-desirable workers.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

They could do this either by restructuring and downsizing various departments, or by implementing new technology that automated many of the tasks currently performed by employees. The results revealed that those in the automation condition would often lay off more immigrants than those in the restructuring condition.

Restructuring 129

Restructuring Offshoring Politics Technology 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

The logical response might seem to be to restructure and reskill the IT organization (again!) to accommodate the new demands — in particular, to acquire the skills to deploy emerging technologies like mobile, social media, analytics, and big data. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. And thanks to the way bankruptcy laws were restructured under George W Bush, you can't get out of the college loan even if you become bankrupt. I say this for two main reasons. This is deeply broken.

Education 13

Education Stage-Gate Insurance Class 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Google’s restructuring as Alphabet is one sign of its entry into several new vertical markets, including driverless cars, smart homes, smart cities, and health. Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8