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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

As the figure below depicts, a company must perform solid work on five components, each reasonably aligned with the other four. There are plenty of great ideas and techniques in the data space: from analytics to machine learning to data-driven decision making to improving data quality. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business

Having the right tools is critically important, but too often executives overlook or underestimate the significance of the people and organizational components required to build a successful D&A function. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities? Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

A scenario like this leaves people feeling their time is being wasted in meetings, which makes them disengaged. Since 2020, due to working primarily remotely , people developed a tendency to compensate for less office presence with more digital meetings. This is an increasingly common scenario since the pandemic (more on it later).

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Corporate Learning Programs Need to Consider Context, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business

Spending on corporate learning, particularly leadership development, continues to increase at a staggering pace. According to one piece of research , spending on frontline leadership development alone increased by over 310% in a three-year period. People work in context with others. Insight center. Insight center.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. Insight Center. Our employees weren’t along for the ride. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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

Harvard Business

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Insight Center. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. It came from a leader within the practice. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Most companies make organizational changes in response to performance gaps by looking in the rear view mirror.

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