HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

“There are millions of people in this new sector and there are clear parallels in terms of how companies in the gig economy operate– for this reason the Uber judgment is hugely significant.” The decision will hit the cab-hailing business hard in one of its biggest markets.

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CO2

AUGUST 2, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Productivity When you consider who is on your team you no longer have the luxury to be sentimental. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

Blog 84

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

in the 1980s, put it this way: “In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. With the right ‘business operations’ in place, your company will achieve success: People: In any company or organization, the real assets are the people. People come first.&#

Succession 133

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market? If they missed, why were they the ones that hold some of the best patents in the digital camera market in which many of the other competitors are paying them today?

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CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? Did they not even ask the question early on as the digital camera came into market? If they missed, why were they the ones that hold some of the best patents in the digital camera market in which many of the other competitors are paying them today?

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Strategic Planning Planning Executive Coaching Film 76

CO2

JULY 21, 2010

5) Financial acumen to understand funding requirements, cash flow, and marketing. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. 2) Ability to create a sustainable competitive solution to the above problem.

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Quality Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism 68

CO2

JANUARY 23, 2011

I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Where has time gone.

Executive Coaching 74

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Direct Marketing Taylorism 74

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The digital marketer who effectively runs Qantas Airlines'' highly regarded — and very successful — loyalty program has an unusual iPad problem. I''ve personally and professionally experienced similar pathologies experiencing "customer support" from credit card companies, financial services firms, airlines and telecoms operators.

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Marketing Airlines Workshop Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Frederick Winslow Taylor , regarded as the father of scientific management and one of the first management consultants in the early 1900s, believed workers were incapable of dissecting and improving their jobs. Taylor expected workers to comply with a standard set of steps defined by process experts (including Taylor himself).

Tools 16

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

It’s not so different from a small start up business in which one partner provides more capital and the other contributes more expertise and hours at the terminal to bring the product to market, yet they split profits evenly. It’s both gender neutral and new, unlike “housekeeping.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

The attempt to turn business into a science of efficiency, also known as “ Taylorism ,” marked the high point of this movement. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production.

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Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

.” Today, CRM pervades the way many companies track and measure how they interact with other organizations, across many departments: marketing, sales, customer service, support, and others. The Future of Operations. when they are ready to leave that Lord & Taylor store)? Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

Company 9

Company Direct Marketing Execution Taylorism 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S. Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem.

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Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

s dynamo Chief Marketing Officer and senior vice president Beth Comstock after my last book, Little Bets , came out, and she got right back to me with a mailing address to send it to. Blair Taylor is now chief community officer at Starbucks after a cold email the former head of the Los Angeles Urban League sent to CEO Howard Schultz.

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Power Tips CEO Taylorism 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. So let’s stop putting “operational,” “incremental,” and “adjacent” improvements under the innovation umbrella. Despite his plea, I suspect this word isn’t going anywhere. Second, demystify the process.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Like Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, Facebook is ubiquitous; you can't go five minutes without encountering the Facebook brand or the tiny blue "f", whether in traditional media (at the bottom of every TV news screen) or online (where Facebook icons and "Like" buttons abound). One in every 13 people on earth uses Facebook. It delivers on E.M.

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Media Short-term Taylorism Taylor 15

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Otherwise they don’t trust you and they can’t really operate very well. As he saw it, that money should go into two basic functions of business: marketing and innovation. You want to make sure that everyone that is in an organization, if they’re going to be engaged they have to know what’s going on.

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Drucker Class Armstrong Books 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

This was the era of scientific management, when experts like Frederick Winslow Taylor kept busy measuring factory workers' every motion with the aim of improving productivity. By 1939, A&P operated more supermarkets than all competitors combined, and was back at the top of its game. Their gambit worked.

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P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 15

CO2

JUNE 30, 2010

Even politicians these days use books as part of their own marketing campaign and messaging strategies. She supports first-time and seasoned authors in their book writing, publishing and marketing endeavors through coaching and training in her “Your Book Is Your Hook!” consulting practice. www.YourBookIsYourHook.com By Jennifer S.

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