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Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability
Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Reflecting the principles presented in The Agility Factor, readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This...
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Finding the Strategic Talent Pivot-Points, 9/1/15
In this webinar, John Boudreau (Research Director, CEO), discusses how job descriptions usually describe work performed by full-time employees, throwing together a series of skills and requirements that seem large enough for an employment contract.
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Choose human capital substance over HR style: Evaluate intent, not just the design
The problem is that HR too often focuses on the programs as designed, not whether they really address what the business needs. Three examples illustrate this point: compensation, leadership development and competency models, and training and development.
HR Perfect Processes are the Enemy of What’s Good for the Business
a.k.a. Are You Helping to Improve Strategy Execution Where It’s Most Needed?
The Right Way to Scorecard HR (Don’t Focus on Turnover and Safety)
The balanced scorecard has popularized the idea that organizations should regularly measure and monitor key metrics about people.
Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness
More than ever, data drives decisions in organizations–and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards. Economist and research scientist Alec Levenson says we need a new approach.
ROI falls short for evaluating human capital and HR: Alec Levenson’s latest post on LinkedIn
In my previous post I discussed why ROI falls short as a tool for making business decisions. Here I address why ROI doesn’t live up to the promise it’s supposed to have for evaluating human capital and HR.
Evolution of HR Leadership, 8/11/15
Ian Ziskin led a conversation about the evolution of leadership and of HR.
CHREATE (The Global Consortium to Reimagine HR, Employment Alternatives, Talent, and the Enterprise)
The Global Consortium to Reimagine HR, Employment Alternatives, Talent, and the Enterprise
Lead the Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment
A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implications Lead the Work (John W. Boudreau, Ravin Jesuthasan, David Creelman (Wiley, 2015) takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of work, and how it’s affecting management and productivity at the organizational level.