This article is the first in a two-part series on applying systems diagnostics to understand the sources of organizational underperformance (this article) and why transformations often fail to deliver (next article). It is based in part on Alec Levenson’s Strategic Analytics book. The issues addressed in the series will be covered in depth in the upcoming virtual workshop Driving Organizational Change with Data.
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A Strategically Aligned HR Operating Model
Proposal of a pivot in how HR is structured and works to focus more directly on the capabilities required for successful strategy execution.
WEBINAR: Building Organizational Capability to Improve Strategy Execution
September 26, 2023
With Alec Levenson and Carl Watson
2023 Labor Day Update: Labor Market and Organizational Trends and Challenges
Commemorating Labor Day 2023, I take a look at some key trends and challenges that have emerged over the past 30 years.
WEBINAR: HRBPs: Prioritizing the Real Business Priorities
March 20, 2023
With Dave Millner and Alec Levenson
Growth Lessons Learned from Juggling the Three “Eyes” of the IPO
Original article published by Alabama Inno An initial public offering is different from other events that spur growth. For maybe the first time, a new IPO is in the public eye. Passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and additional regulations that continue for...
PODCAST: Dave Millner on optimizing HR success with data-driven strategies
In this episode of the HRD Live Podcast, Dave Millner, CEO’s affiliated practitioner, discusses why being data-driven is becoming more important than ever to HR, and the critical role technology plays in a data-driven approach.
Strategic HR of tomorrow: Leveraging data and analytics for success
Dave Millner, CEO’s affiliated practitioner, outlines why the HR business partner must become an even more crucial touch point for business leaders than ever before in this article published by HRD Connect.
Systems diagnosis tools and techniques
Originally posted in LinkedIn: Part One | Part Two Systems diagnosis tools and techniques – Part One Systems diagnoses and solutions are both the answer to a lot of what is wrong with corporate performance – and a source of the problem at the same time. Most issues...
WEBINAR: Leveraging Science and Data to Increase HR’s Impact
December 13, 2022
with Alec Levenson
Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (Management on the Cutting Edge)
Work is traditionally understood as a “job,” and workers as “jobholders.” Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new “work operating system” that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau’s new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work.
Strategy Bites Back: Strategic HR May Win Out in Culture War
Over the years, data has supported the notion that culture eats strategy for breakfast. But then subsequent studies suggest that strategy is more important — it eats culture. This year is an interesting mix.
by Theresa M. Welbourne