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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. This period was also marked by the tremendous growth in the amount of data available about customers, which represented a golden age of market research.

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Impressive Skills to Put on a Resume

HR Digest

Technological savviness. Six Sigma techniques. B2B Marketing. Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Porter’s Five Forces. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. Best Resume Tips. So you’re ready to write the resume of your dreams.

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1:1 Executive Coaching Program – Now Open for Enrollment

Six Disciplines

Unlike most strategic planning models/frameworks that can be daunting, the Six Disciplines methodology is practical and pragmatic. Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change. ” ~ D.

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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. They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction.

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How Big Companies Beat Local Competition in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding. Partnering: getting ideas from start-ups.

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Put HR Skills on Your Performance Improvement Team

Harvard Business Review

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. If you do Six Sigma in isolation, the work force doesn't have time to implement the changes.".