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Creative Strategies for Recruiting Talent During a Labor Shortage

Harvard Business Review

This article explores the concept of creative recruitment marketing efforts and its potential to address labor shortages by effectively reaching untapped talent pools, diversifying the talent pipeline, and aligning company values with purpose-driven candidates.

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

performing entrants in any given market space. And managers who continually ask themselves and their teams what that next logical step to be taken is – and then take it, learn from it and repeat the process – are Iterating. Iteration is the way effective systems solve problems whose solutions are too complex to be predefined.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

As our economy grows ever more globalized and competition for market share intensifies, companies are under ever-greater pressure to innovate — both to retain market share and to capture new markets in emerging economies and underserved markets.

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Use Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better

Harvard Business Review

The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India. Jugaad innovators innovate better: Jugaad innovators recognize that consumers in emerging markets are low earners, but high yearners.

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period.

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Trial and Error Is No Way to Make Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage. It fails to reveal what’s next.