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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. But the organization’s energy and appetite for more cost-cutting was low.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture. Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. Insight Center.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business

At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. We put €50,000 behind 28 of them and by early 2018 we had three pilots: a new business model in animal healthcare, a digital solution for clinical operations, and a gamified education app.

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. They were introduced in 1997 in the energy sector , to automatically compensate investors for financial losses when the weather index exceeds a predefined level. alone, or 3.5% These instruments are not new.

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Reenergizing an organization and accelerating growth

Brimstone Consulting

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results. Download Case Study.

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses. Connect with Esther on LinkedIn: [link] GRN Fairfield Donna James owns and operates GRN Fairfield, a search firm filling the needs of retail businesses.