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Hi Mike, Thank you for your feedback and for joining the team. Likewise, it will be good to explore all of these areas in the next phase of the hack... Kind regards, Bruce More
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Agreed Davin, good point... More
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Hi Heidi, I'd split hairs about the definitions of factories and labs, but there's no question that focussing on better interdependencies and efficiencies is a sound approach. More
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Hi Heidi, no problem about promoting the Push v Pull hack, I think it's got to be one of the key features of any successful hack, at least if it plans on being implemented and used in practice. May... More
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Hi Nigel, I believe the trick we have to find is how such ideas as we have can be transferred into the wider business community to provide a vocabulary and framework for understanding and insight, ... More
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Seconded, I'd also be open to joining this hacking team.... More
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Thank you for your note Sue. I've signed up to join your hack as part of the hacking team, although I don't know if you're planning on pursuing it into the next phase of the hack, which I think will b... More
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True, true... More
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Thanks Nigel, I'm not sure how much the demographic shift and different value set is going to help/enhance/hack HR though - the link seems a bit tenuous to me? I also found a recent research piece tha... More
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Hi Sue, Agreed - there's no question of the value of a collaborative culture and the more people who start to engage in this, in part as shift in their own mindset, the better. Likewise, these idea... More
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By introducing a series of 5 predictive people management processes, HR and people management shifts from a reactive to proactive function.
By Bruce Lewin on July 17, 2021
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This hack draws together the ideas and concepts behind the 5 other hacks submitted, see below for a list. It should be seen as a hack that ties the others together and considers their combined implications for the HR function as a whole.

Gary Hamel laid out a ...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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HR has often struggled to demonstrate it's value, both in absolute terms and when compared to other functions. There is no shortage of research, commentary and writing on the subject, this piece from HR Magazine in 2007 sums things up well:

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By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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Change management and change initiatives in the broadest sense of the word are typically a combination of formal and informal activities and processes. Whilst change has traditionally been driven in a top-down fashion, new tools and techniques are emerging that help create a complementary, bottom-up approach. Methods such as ...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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The idea of managers acting as a catalyst to better engagement within their teams is not new. Research typically suggests that managers are a major factor, if not the key factor in determining engagement outcomes. That said, manager's are often caught between a rock and a...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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Typically, recruitment and the related team creation processes are informed by a wide variety of subjective and objective variables. Whilst the rise of cloud based recruitment and human capital management software makes the creation and tracking of these processes easier, recruitment[1] and team creation processes lack the rigour and consensus...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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There is no shortage of concepts, skills and models within HR, all of which aim to raise performance, engagement or both. While many are well researched have been around for 20 or more years, it's hard to find good examples of their evolution. Many of these ideas and...

By Bruce Lewin on June 8, 2022
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Reading through the excellent contributions, there seems to be a thread building around the need for a new management paradigm. A paradigm that reflects and helps create:

  1. New principles
  2. New values
  3. New systems

The following extracts are all taken from this site and by viewing them together,...

By Bruce Lewin on May 29, 2022
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Looking at some of the examples cited by Gary in his introductory post, they typically illustrate businesses that have suffered from 1. Prioritising Short Term Profits 2. Short Term Thinking and 3. An Addiction to Core Revenue Streams.

Let's examine each of these three factors in turn, how...

By Bruce Lewin on May 9, 2022