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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.

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Design for Conflict: Make Tension in the Matrix Work to Drive Business Results

Kates Kesler

Organizational simplicity is great when the business is simple – when there are only a few products, serving a few markets (in one or two countries). Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. Nike’s money-making matrix.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent. A decade after the global financial crisis, many banks remain averse to risk, and their legacy talent pools, processes, and IT systems are ill-suited to major change.

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How to Strengthen Your Reputation as an Employer

Harvard Business

Beyond the cost to replace staff, which is estimated at 50%–75% of the new hire’s annual salary , this type of attrition damages coworker morale, disrupts customer relationships, and, in the age of employer review sites like Glassdoor, inhibits companies’ ability to attract new talent. The timing couldn’t be worse.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. They are not employees; they are contingent workers who are nonetheless vital to an organization’s R&D, marketing, and other key processes.

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Why Top Management Should Listen to Activist Investors

Harvard Business

What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage? What is our promise to the market and to customers? Starbucks applies its capabilities in talent management and distinctive retailing to everything it does. What is our company great at doing?

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

So can designing new kinds of incentives, recognizing and rewarding the behaviors you want to encourage, and bringing in new, more diverse viewpoints and types of talent to the company. Too many companies wait for the annual strategic off-site to roll around before they address the changing dynamics of their market.

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