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Focus HR on Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

Since September 2016, Torkild has spent a couple of days a week at the Björn Borg headquarters, attending workshops, meetings, and fitness tests; having lunch with and talking with employees; and participating in sports hours (25 to date). During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

So nobody was shocked when, for a recent strategy project, Masala passed over many well-known consultancies that he viewed as having already “made a science out of their way of thinking of restructuring.” One of the entrepreneurs, Sun, describes it as: “a workshop… turned into a hackathon. He wanted them to be open to multiple methods.