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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List?

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Mired in the complexity of an unrelated product line, Campbell’s leaders keep plugging along trying to do more of the same, only better. They are kidding themselves.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. In the mid-2000s, Nike embarked on a program to introduce lean manufacturing to its apparel suppliers in the developing world. Insight Center.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business Review

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This means that they simply do not have the human resources to perform the onerous data analysis and behavioral segmentation needed to inform true one-to-one marketing.

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How Digital Leaders Get the Right Work Done - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKFRONT

Harvard Business Review

They’ve treated human resources and human resource management as a tier-one asset. And we’re seeing these business leaders of tomorrow they’re really championing a new operating model of work. Let’s say it’s an apparel company, right. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. Management power rests with focused strategies on two product categories, athletic shoes and apparel.

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