The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance
Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous.
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Reward: How to Foster a Technology-Innovation Culture within a Large Organization: What You Can Learn from Start-up Companies
Few firms innovate with any degree of consistency. Despite a significant body of in-depth analysis and academic research on the topic of technology innovation, most high-tech businesses are not particularly innovative, and numerous industry watchers and pundits wonder aloud how the truly innovative companies make it look so easy (for example, Burrows 2004; Economist 2007; Grossman 2005; Murphy 2008).
Pulse of the Workforce 2009 Survey of Individual Contributors
Half of individual contributors feel their jobs are stagnant. And 1 out of 3 just do their jobs, nothing more. All at a time when organizations can ill afford to have unproductive, poorly engaged individual contributors.
Overcoming the Shortfalls in Developing Leaders
Seventy-five (75) percent of executives surveyed for the Global Leadership Forecast 2008|2009 identified improving or leveraging leadership talent as a top business priority.
Leaders without Sea Legs: Threats to Staying Afloat During Tough Times
From early in this century until a short while ago, the economic sea was calm. Organizations sailed through international waters in search of new business opportunities.
Surviving and Thriving in Today’s Tough Economic Environment: Perspective and Best Practices for Talent Management Professionals
Like the cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, the world economy raced off a cliff of debt and for much of [2008] was left in mid-air, legs spinning madly.
The New Reality Update: Refocusing Your Talent Strategy in 2010
In 2007, we issued a white paper about the New Reality, which characterized the contemporary North American workplace as one with shorter job tenures, changing generational values, a surplus of vacant positions and scarce talent.
Virtual Experiences the Age of Virtual Events has arrived
A down economy paralyzing travel budgets and threatening event and trade show attendance. A marketing community in need of larger audiences and more leads. Event professionals under fire to produce critical ROI at all costs.