HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022. New HR Trends (2022).

Trends 116

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition 116

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

In his groundbreaking new book, Brand Relevance : Making Competitors Irrelevant, David shows how any company can use the “brand relevance” strategy to achieve long-term, competitive success. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success.

Brand 56

Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Critics lampoon the latest management buzzwords, labeling them as pretentious and shallow. In truth, though, management has made big strides. We have come a long way from Scientific Management and using a stopwatch to manage performance.

Blue Ocean Strategy 15

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8