Wells Fargo’s Strategy to Filter Out Innovative Ideas
No commentsGlen Grosslight senior VP of the Technology Information for Wells Fargo writes about an unique way to enable the employees to innovate. They have used a stock exchange concept in which team members trade shares on innovative ideas. Hence a ‘free market’ for ideas and innovation was born. (Read more at Wells Fargo Uses Market […]
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Innovation through Collaboration
No commentsThe expansive reach of collaborative technology can bring together expertise and expedite innovation. This was common underlying conclusion by many industry leaders that presented at “Achieving Innovation through Collaboration” symposium. This symposium was hosted by the Center for Advancing Business through Information Technology at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
One of the interesting […]
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War for Talent?
No commentsResearch by McKinsey titled Making Talent a Strategy Priority finds a contradicting trend (This is an extension to their initial paper in 1997 titled ‘War For Talent’). While there is a rising acknowledgement by the executive that in this globalized knowledge economy, the demand for right ‘talent’ far exceeds the existing supply leading to ‘war […]
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How to make IT Matter
No commentsProfessor Donald Marchand of IMD in his article Realizing IT Values: A Shared Responsibility between Senior Managers and the CIO gives an interesting perspective on how to make IT matter. Check out the Senior Manager and CIO leadership Matrix below which shows how to make IT Matter to an organization.
Basic premise of the article is […]
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Bottom up Management
No commentsHCL Technologies, an Indian Info tech company is taking a unique approach to hold its management accountable. In the article titled Employee is always right, Business Week investigates new and quirky approach the company is taking where every employee gets to grade the performance of their managers! Not only that, everyone gets to see those […]
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Global Talent Hot Spot–US dominance challenged by China, UK
1 comment so farThe United States’ status as the world’s biggest talent hotspot is under threat from the countries like UK and China according to the first ever Global Talent Index (GTI) by executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
According to this survey, US will maintain it’s position as the world’s leading country […]
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A New Breed of IT Workers
No commentsIn the eWeek.com article IT Workers Second-Guess Career Choice, Deborah Perelman reports a disturbing trend where the IT workers in the US see a bleak future for their career and are discouraging their kids to not pursue IT career.
Outsourcing, Offshoring, H1B Employees, Commoditization of IT work force are all here to stay, but they […]
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Attention HR: Young workers demand Web 2.0
1 comment so farInformation Week article “Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job” talks about how Web 2.0 has become important part of social life for the new generation workers.
Our company has its own internal blogging and its interesting to see that the young hires and interns start blogging almost instantaneously. In some cases, I […]
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Knowledge Worker and Resource Allocation
No commentsThe Knowledge worker is still perceived as a semi-skilled or an unskilled worker by the mid level executives. This is how it typically plays out in a budget meeting. One of the finance management member looks at the amount that is being spent on sustaining the application that has been in production for past 2 […]
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Globalization of Labor
No commentsAs organizations begin to span the globe, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to the corporate executives to manage these resources. Since each knowledge resource is unique, a lot of effort needs to go into understanding the uniqueness of each person. The question then arises - how do you build the ‘relationship’ if the labor is dispersed […]
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