HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. Focus group discussions with a diverse group of employees can also provide a deeper understanding of the organization’s training requirements.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In my view, employee engagement operates like the stock market exchange. In addition to our classic engagement surveys that we used to run every year, we also do focus groups on topics that most matter to our colleagues to better understand employees’ preferences, as well as incorporate best practices from other organizations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down. Interview relevant personnel; hold focus groups and conduct employee surveys.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 5, 2020

Just like the people they lead, they become protective of the way things operate. This may need to be the subject of another post, but one example of how I have tried to address this lid is with what I call “focus groups”. I wrote a post on innovative ways to develop people , as an example. They are just “normal”. .

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

However, operating a team with genuinely different people also comes with a number of challenges that must be overcome to create a productive work environment. creating focus groups if necessary ? Learn our best practices for managing virtual teams and meetings.). Management should talk to employees ?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. Through an innovation excellence framework. Innovative companies create an environment that fosters the right balance between current and future with “and thinking.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Alstom keeps trains ready to run each morning for railroad operators rather than just selling the rolling stock to them. Periodic market research surveys or focus groups should be replaced by continual data collection, from all interactions between the supplier and its customers. Turning Customer Intelligence Into Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After working with numerous marketers, we developed the Intelligent Brand Framework to provide a structure for thinking about marketing investments across creative and operational disciplines, using a combination of data-driven and human-centric approaches. They are: Observation is where customer behavior reveals new insights.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Live prototyping replaces techniques like surveys, bases testing, and focus groups. It’s important to calibrate what degree of “roughness” is going to be acceptable based on the market in which you’re operating. Innovation'

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Retail Focus Group Brand Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

The third step requires you to work out what your organization wants from each key stakeholder group for your organization to prosper. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.” The reason? Be prepared to adjust.

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Strategic Planning Planning Document Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

It's not that hard, or expensive — but it does take more than forming a few focus groups. Despite its reputation for innovation, and the fact it was in a robust growth market, the firm was close to shutting down the unit. Focus marketing innovations on customer advocacy. This, by the way, is old news.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. Customer service Customers Health Operations'

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Health Care Policies Porter System 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I spent the last 18 months researching and writing a book on how organizations and leaders can do extraordinary things, even if they operate in pretty ordinary fields. You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization. What are the key actions of strategic leaders who drive innovation without formal authority?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. .” “And what we learned was sobering. And you don’t need a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? The impact that had on the operations and culture was significant. What haven’t you solved?

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. What is the greatest impediment preventing Americans from getting good health care?

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Health Care Industry First-mover Advantage Market Segmentation 8

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

First, know your culture Lets face it; some organisations foster a culture of innovation and renewal, and some are stuck in the past. But, as with people, values are not reflected in the statements on the wall but seen in the daily operations and decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Although insights from social listening can and should drive corporate strategy and innovation, these are more likely trapped inside the marketing and service departments that “own” them. To get the most out of social media data, operations have to go beyond data scientists and the marketing departments that house them.

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