HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

By regularly conducting training needs analyses, organizations can cultivate a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering employees to stay up-to-date with industry trends, technological advancements, and evolving business requirements. The Three Levels of Training Needs Analysis What is traning needs anaylsis?

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Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2023

Living with disability “Being a disability support worker requires many attributes including patience, honesty, and compassion, as well as skills in first aid, administration, information technology, teamwork, providing personal care, and problem-solving,” the researchers explain.

Participative 121

Participative Information Technology Teamwork Focus Group 121

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While it’s largely foolhardy to place too much faith in the various estimates of individual jobs vulnerability to technological and economic disruption, what seems far more certain is that disruption will become a way of life, especially in an era where our life expectancy continues to grow and therefore our time in work stretches outwards.

Technology 107

Technology Competitive Advantage Training Report 107

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology.

Power 100

Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This informal process is complemented by formal approaches, such as intern-based focus groups and low-stakes assignments that allow interns to share their cultural knowledge. The study explored the various obstacles that can get in the way of senior professionals improving their knowledge of technologies such as generative AI.

Management 75

Management Technology Mentor Cooper 75

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

. “But it seems like, in hindsight, this was the result of short-term disequilibrium between the capacity of the masses to use this technology and the limited capacity of these elites to use it. A lot of these elites may have not been keeping up with modern communication technology and got caught unawares.

Short-term 73

Short-term Media Tactics Focus Group 73

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive.

Media 66

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

Innovation 18

Innovation Govindarajan Business Model Disruptive Innovation 18

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. How did Bally Technologies do it? Through an innovation excellence framework. But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way.

Technology 8

Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse? Aesthete-centric brands like Burberry's, Zegna and Chanel have as their ambassadors aspiring icons who give creative light and focus to the design portfolio. Anyone can hire a focus group. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too.

Innovation 16

Innovation Fashion Christensen Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

Innovation 10

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2012

The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. A large consumer electronics manufacturer we recently worked with had launched a new hybrid TV and internet technology focused on teens.

Power 15

Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 15

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.

Succession 17

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What is innovation? The geeks contend, as they always and always probably will, that innovation is technology. But innovation is not a value meal, efficiently packing in more fries and double, triple, quadruple patties for a cheaper price. Innovation isn’t just the latest technology crammed into in a clunky box.

Company 15

Company Committee Price Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Periodic market research surveys or focus groups should be replaced by continual data collection, from all interactions between the supplier and its customers. Solutions often represent major innovations and, as such, customers may not always be able to grasp the value immediately. Technology can help here.

B2B 15

B2B Business Objectives Focus Group Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2012

So it seems like we need to add brainstorming sessions to the scrap heap of plausible business techniques that actually don't work that well, along with focus groups and job interviews. I love this idea, and not just because I wrote a book about technology-facilitated collaboration and don't want it to be wrong. How can this be?

Brainstorming 19

Brainstorming Groupthink Focus Group Power 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. In my work with focus groups, interviews with leaders, and reviews of frontline employees' performance appraisals, I'm seeing more and more of these reverse leaders.

Self-aware 19

Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. In fact, he famously avoids customer input and focus groups because he is so sure about his own gut feeling. This eliminates online surveys and focus groups. Here are 10 questions to ask: 1.

Marketing 15

Marketing Productivity Products Retail 15

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? Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient.

Brand 14

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For much of the past 15 years, almost anyone with a spark of adventure was eager to leave a career in a state-owned enterprise (SEO) for the chance to get rich, travel, and innovate. A significant amount of China's green technology and scientific research is conducted within the public sector.

Travel 14

Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Technologies exist that allow them to easily post a recommendation to their Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections, and Twitter followers. It's not that hard, or expensive — but it does take more than forming a few focus groups. Focus marketing innovations on customer advocacy. This, by the way, is old news.

CEO 10

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Different segments have different risk tolerances, ways of making decisions, and — perhaps most challenging for growing businesses — preferences for when and how they adopt innovations. In launching new products or services, start-ups tend to accumulate deep knowledge about customers at the leading edge of a technology.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Innovation Short-term Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In addition to developing programs on pain-management for our broad clinician population, we targeted a focused group of high prescribers. Using the dashboard, we quickly saw that clinicians were prescribing opioids at vastly different rates. Generally, high prescribing clinicians were unaware of their rates.

System 14

System Health Care Review Focus Group 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? To answer these questions, the analytics team created focus groups of senior Sprint executives and managers, who reviewed the feedback and made informed decisions based on the data. Are employees fully engaged and motivated? Take Sprint.

Metrics 15

Metrics Parcell Call Center Products 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

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. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Transportation 8

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.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Without inclusion, however, the crucial connections that attract diverse talent, encourage their participation, foster innovation, and lead to business growth won’t happen. At the Center for Talent Innovation , we have constructed a unique, robust framework for measuring the things that matter. Inclusion is being asked to dance.”

Diversity 8

Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Businesses gain their strategic focus from understanding the “customer” ? To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work. Pursue scientific innovation. in this case, that’s the mother-to-be herself.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. They had a detailed strategic plan in place that included increased collaboration and innovation necessary to grow the business. The answer? A resounding “yes.”

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

So we don’t take chances and innovate — unless we feel assured that our data won’t be used against us. Internal focus groups felt that “the culture’s focus on collaboration and productivity” would give way to competition if each person’s data were out there for all to see. So, how much “talking” should devices do?

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Bottom-up Self-aware Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Our new book, Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors , based on recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation, indicates that there is a rising tide of female wealth worldwide. Based on interviews and focus groups we conducted across the region, cultural dynamics are playing a key role.

Survey 8

Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 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 you don’t need a Ph.D.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But even as she gained status by getting her PhD and becoming a clinician scientist, she came up against persistent bureaucratic and organizational barriers to innovation. The resulting system has three major components: An Innovation blueprint detailing the types of innovations the organization wants to encourage.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Compliance Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. The crisis provides compelling reason for change and, if companies can weather it, they can emerge stronger.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8