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Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change

Using systems diagnostics to drive process improvement and change

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.

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.

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WEBINAR: Building Organizational Capability to Improve Strategy Execution

WEBINAR: Building Organizational Capability to Improve Strategy Execution

September 26, 2023
With Alec Levenson and Carl Watson

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WEBINAR: HRBPs: Prioritizing the Real Business Priorities

WEBINAR: HRBPs: Prioritizing the Real Business Priorities

March 20, 2023
With Dave Millner and Alec Levenson

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PODCAST: Dave Millner on optimizing HR success with data-driven strategies

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.

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WEBINAR: Leveraging Science and Data to Increase HR’s Impact

WEBINAR: Leveraging Science and Data to Increase HR’s Impact

December 13, 2022
with Alec Levenson

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Work without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (Management on the Cutting Edge)

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.