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What HR Has Learned From Marketing

The Horizons Tracker

In the first phase, they highlight how companies were focused on process improvement via approaches such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. Stage 1 – process improvement.

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Impressive Skills to Put on a Resume

HR Digest

Innovation . Technological savviness. Six Sigma techniques. Customer Service. Business Etiquette. Adaptability. Attention to detail . Negotiation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing.

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Strategy Execution - The Un-Idea

Six Disciplines

It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas. Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships.

Execution 101
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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7

Strategy Driven

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g., This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste.

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Core Elements to Leading a Peak Performance Culture

The Practical Leader

We’ve been working with more and more executive teams who proclaim strategies for transforming their culture toward higher safety, customer service, innovation, Lean/Six Sigma approaches, productivity, employee engagement, or new technology platforms. They’re innocently ignorant.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening.

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The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.