The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Indeed, the World Bank predict that we’re facing up to the worst global recession since the 2nd World War. It’s widely accepted that the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic will be substantial.

Short-term 114

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 114

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

In an interview with The HR Digest, Michael Fraccaro, Chief Human Resources Officer at Mastercard, explains the importance of business resource groups and the vital role it plays to deliver real business results. It can help them innovate. Michael Fraccaro | Chief Human Resources Officer, Mastercard.

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Learning-by-Doing Leadership Pipeline 40

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Amidst their country’s tech talent shortage, HP Indonesia is doing its best to focus on its employee retention instead of acquisition efforts, according to Human Resources Online. The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030.

Process 59

Process Attrition Trends Training 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. You never know when the next big recession will hit.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Goal Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Just over 10 years ago, French bank BNP Paribas froze U.S. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. We expect investment banks to embark on an even more fundamental makeover during the next decade. The New Face of Investment Banks.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

For innovation-hungry legacy firms, partnering with a startup can be appealing. With apologies to Tolstoy, all happy start-up partnerships are alike; every unhappy innovation partnership is unhappy in its own way. They don’t seek to assess how well an innovation works; they try to measure how well that innovation works for us.

KPI 12

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 12

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Erni is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employers in the world. My career started in finance, where I first worked in investment banking, then on the trading floor and later became Lehman Brothers’ first Chief Diversity Officer.

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Ernie is widely considered one of the most influential leaders in human resources and her company, Audible, one of the most diverse employer in the world. My career started in finance, where I first worked in investment banking, then on the trading floor and later became Lehman Brothers’ first Chief Diversity Officer.

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 13

CEO Insider

JUNE 4, 2024

Since the beginning of 2024, there has been a consistent stream of CEO departures from leading CX tech firms, including AWS, NICE, Freshworks, Twilio, Vonage, Medallia, Calabrio, and Luware. This trend raises questions about what might be unsettling the leadership in these companies.

CEO 52

CEO Magazine Trends Influence 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

Microfinance 16

Microfinance Diversity Banking Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And when customer data showed that first-time applicants were more likely to move forward when there was a human touch to the process, marketing helped assign a sales person to individual customers. Those steps helped the bank drive up loan volumes, a tangible bump the CMO could point to in discussions with other leaders.

P&L 14

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. Giving managers more time to do deep thinking can unlock innovations that can have a significant impact on productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Imagine you're a bank approached for a loan by an employee of AIG. The age of big data is upon us, but realizing its potential will require input from both the innovators in Silicon Valley building data solutions and the enterprises standing to benefit from them. Too often, mismatched technologies force algorithms to fly half blind.

Venture Funding 17

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

In the work on diversity and innovation we have conducted over recent years, we came to understand some of the keys of tribal thinking, and how some companies are successfully leveraging it. In 2010, Everis Initiatives received the seventh annual Expansion and Employment Award for Innovation in Human Resources.

Consultative 12

Consultative Globalization Learning-by-Doing Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Generally speaking, entrepreneurs may need to rethink their risks to improve the chances that their innovations succeed.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation. Risk is now considered a feature, not a bug.

Report 9

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. They are the ones who set the culture that we experience every day, despite any programmatic efforts by the bank.” Bureau of Labor Statistics. alone, according to CTI.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

” Yet, a study of 33,000 employees in 26 countries showed that independent workers were more satisfied, innovative, and engaged with their clients than regular employees, even those regular employees designated as high potentials. A Mercury News article noted that Sen. ”

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Leaders — especially those in large, successful organizations — must create an environment where people thrive on passion and purpose, and are as agile and innovative as their potential disruptors. Disruptors can come from anywhere, any time.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The answer lies within those factors that do not require fat bank accounts. Qualitative cultures are about the creativity, the ingenuity, and the innovation created by the human resource, not the financial resource. This is a culture of entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. I’ll start with leadership.

Competitive Advantage 100

Competitive Advantage How To Human Resources Strategy 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. University Representatives—Cohort 1.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO Magazine 70

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Some large European banks have announced imminent layoffs. Deutsche Bank’s retail unit is accelerating thousands of job cuts at its German head offices. US banks except Wells Fargo have not announced any cuts. Salesforce.com plans to cut 1,000 jobs, sources said, while Microsoft cut fewer than 1,000 jobs.

Industry 75

Industry Airlines Retail Banking 75

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Industry Transportation 120

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Partners were receptive.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” And the Legatum Institute, when aggregating data from the World Bank, the United Nations, and elsewhere to formulate its Prosperity Index , has found that of its many indicators, “entrepreneurship & opportunity” correlates most strongly with a country’s overall prosperity. We are talking about the U.S.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then banking regulations were imposed. First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare.

ROE 15

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 15