Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Planning has long been one of the cornerstones of management. Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Later, MBO evolved into strategic planning.

Agility 15

Agility Planning Fayol Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

As the use of external talent increases, so does the need for more efficient ways to find, hire, and manage contingent workers as well as integrate them into the company’s full-time employees and teams. The Washington Post is another good example of a company using a platform to manage external talent.

MBO 8

MBO Long-term Human Capital Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A survey conducted for the past three years on behalf of MBO Partners , a provider of support services for independent workers, counts temp workers, on-call workers, and those on fixed-term contracts as “independent workers.” Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

MBO 9

MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

One of the big challenges for the people leading global sales organizations is figuring out the right way to set pay for for salespeople who work in vastly different countries and markets. It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.”

Globalization 8

Globalization System Incentives Guidelines 8