Driving return on investment through people
Shifting from a balance of strategic and operational HR work to a disciplined focus on strategic HR work is a dominant agenda of high-performing HR functions, writes Wayne Brockbank Dani is a highly competent chief HR officer in a high-performing company. As she looks to the future, she recognises that […]
The HR function should play an integral role in integrated business planning, however, HR is often left out of the process, or simply overlooked for a number of reasons, according to a recent report. For integrated business planning to be truly effective, a “whole of organisation” plan is required to […]
A people-centric focus has been critical to the success of Boral’s innovation strategy, which has played a key role in improving safety outcomes and driving customer and employee engagement while boosting efficiency and operational excellence. Head of people transformation & innovation for Boral Australia, Wayne Reade, explained that innovation is […]
Systems thinking can help HR in seeing an organisation as a system that is sustained by how well its parts are aligned to the same purposes – and avoid organisational change false starts in the process, writes Dave Hanna Cedric was the maintenance chief in a manufacturing plant’s five-day operation that […]
Design thinking can assist HR professionals in achieving impressive results, writes Jeff Mike, who explains that the process is better understood and approached as a set of three working principles. HR is undergoing a fundamental shift. The rigid, policy-driven programs and processes of yesterday, which were primarily focused on compliance, efficiency, […]
