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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

Improving the in-store experience, promoting omnichannel shopping and fulfillment options, and developing in-person service innovations are avenues that leverage its brand equity and core competencies — and they’re approaches that would put Amazon at a disadvantage.

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A Way to Implement Change That Really Works

Change Starts Here

The methods in this change guide have been used successfully by people in roles as diverse as human resources, organization development, project management, process improvement, IT, strategy management, sustainability and operations. Let me answer a few questions for you: Who is this for?

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Human resources'

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. For example, if a nonprofit is experiencing an issue with hiring, we provide human capital consultants to help them revamp their process.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

The purpose is to encourage their teams to develop department-specific responses, and to generate new ideas and new behaviors based on what they've learned. It isn't enough to explain the connection between your company's purpose and its strategy — and between that strategy and its execution — once.