HR Digest

AUGUST 25, 2023

With the rapid evolution of technology and the gig economy, the EEOC acknowledges the need to adapt its strategies to address novel forms of discrimination. The Implementation Process of the EEOC’s Latest Strategy Implementing the new EEOC Strategic Plan requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 15, 2013

The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” Technology alone is not enough. The answer: it takes a complete program. The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” Technology alone is not enough. The answer: it takes a complete program. The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This is to address growing demand and ever-evolving technology. Plus, they can focus on patient care and develop cost-effective IT strategies. This means high-quality, dependable technology that helps clinics perform better and better manage their resources. With IT services, the clinic can scale its IT resources as needed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In this blog we take a look at three reasons why you need to get a Technology Consulting Company on board and how they can help you. Having an IT strategy in place means that while your business continues to grow and succeed, your IT systems can support that growth and contribute to it. Future Proofing Your Business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. They grow faster.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Complimentary Resource – Recruitment Technology. The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Complimentary Resource – Social Media Basics for Recruiting.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. When Apple shifted its strategy in 2016, it also laid off workers from this same group. Through a spokesperson, Apple has acknowledged the move, saying, however, that there are still opportunities in the space.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 29, 2024

” He goes on to quote a highly successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, “In the world today there’s plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of venture capital. What’s in short supply is great teams.” ” Good managers foster teamwork.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. Given this context, a recent study exploring the role of online marketplaces in the legal profession is particularly interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

T O THRIVE in a new, more tumultuous era of social tension, economic nationalism, and technological revolution, you need to go beyond great. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. Great is no longer good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. That put it in the right place at the right time as the technology revolution was beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. When you fail to engage with a conflict, you can’t gather the input you need to find a workable solution. Is that right?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows. Strategy is culture, culture is strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered. Directness. He's personable, but blunt. HP suffered from a progression of strategic missteps and failed leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's an important move, more for what it tells us about Google and the evolution of its strategy than it does about the restaurant rating game. Using mobile technology, users could scan the Google logo to find out more. Today, Google announced that it had acquired Zagat , the popular restaurant ratings provider.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Dan's smart observation is that "Brand is everything, and everything is brand."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. She focuses on application development, open-source technology, and project and portfolio management. To find out, we surveyed 547 IT leaders in 11 countries. Laurie Wurster is a research director at Gartner.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” — digital strategy is on fire as today’s “it” strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Differentiation increasingly requires more innovative thinking, and the use of very specific areas of expertise (like Apple’s winning design, a capability that wouldn’t have been prioritized in most technology companies before Jobs). Leaders who master both strategy and execution start by building a bold but executable strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. They need help with financial management, marketing, product development, service delivery, and technology. A skills-based, or pro bono, approach is about donating skills, not just money.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Almost 80% of the more than 1,200 senior executives recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers believe that their organizations have the right strategic intent — but only 54% think they’re executing that strategy well. Why the gap? Let’s compare two fictional companies to see what’s involved.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. There are many parallels with this story and another from over 50 years ago when another then-little-known company, Honda, sought to expand its motorbike business into the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

By not over-reacting and instead allowing those consumers to walk away, Hastings was able to keep his company focused on its strategy of value-added services and avoid the distraction of a price war. He said not at all, as all Redbox was doing was siphoning off Deal Chasers who didn't really value Netflix's model.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Jim, a brilliant professor of engineering, came on as the new Chief Knowledge Officer and John, an experienced petroleum executive identified by a major shareholder, became Vice President of Technology, Products, and Services. But within just a few months of their joining, war had broken out between the new arrivals and other executives.

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