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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

The network is connected through lateral integrators such as communities of practice, shared metrics, or formal integrator roles. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units. We worked with a large oil and gas company with operations spread across North America. An Example.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Because hospitals receive substantial governmental revenues, they make public their operating data, which we needed to calculate productivity.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business

But to me, the most fascinating thing about the whole initiative is the organizational mindset shift it’s creating: a realization about the value of getting smarter about how — and where — operations use energy. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. This black box approach can’t last.

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics.

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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.