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

Harvard Business

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture?

LSA Global

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture — how work truly gets done — accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies. Do you have an adaptable enough corporate culture to thrive during times of change?

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

Embrace Agile Methods for Responding to Customers. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. With an agile methodology, Avaya didn’t just speed up its workflow — it communicated better with its customers.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

And research shows that once women and people of color join tech companies, retention rates are much lower than that of white men, often due to bad treatment in the workplace. However, if you invest in creating talent, these same costs would only amount to $723k. Women leave tech companies twice as fast as men do.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Over the last 16 years I have carried out research into how leaders create change , and I’ve worked in the change leadership field for 25 years in multinational corporations. How talent management is changing. The mismatch between leadership development as it exists and what leaders actually need is enormous and widening.