Author Archives: Bruce Lewin
Possible problems with the HR Management Framework for Enterprise 2.0
I’ve just read the great piece from Jon Husband at the FASTForward blog and its made me think a great deal about Enterprise 2.0 (E2) stuff and how this compares to other new technologies and methods that we’ve seen play … Continue reading
Up to 40% of Performance is determined by the Quality of People’s Relationships
The presentation below builds on research from Harvard, MIT, Warwick (via Proudfoot Consulting) and a meta analysis from the University of Amersterdam and Carnegie Mellon. The Hidden 20 – 40% Of Peformance View more presentations from fourgroups. Twitter Linkedin Facebook … Continue reading
Shifting the People Management Worldview
Gary Hamel recently wrote about a survey that found that only 20% of employees are truly engaged in their work — heart and soul and yet he goes on to say that I talk to a lot of CEOs, and … Continue reading
An interview with Mike Haffenden, co-founder of the Corporate Research Forum and former HR Director of Hewlett-Packard
The following interview was held between Bruce Lewin and Mike Haffenden in December 2009. Mike co-foundded the Corporate Research Forum and was formerly HR Director for Hewlett-Packard. The discussion focussed on a review of 2009 and its themes for HR, … Continue reading
When will the Artists take over from the Technicians?
Two ideas to consider… Focusing on the ‘unstructured, intangible and typically unmeasured’ will lead to the greatest increase in profits and problem solving over the coming years. Benefiting from working on the ‘unstructured’ will only be fully realised when it … Continue reading
Opportunities for HR and People Management in 2010 and beyond…
Looking at 2010 and beyond, HR and people management activities will only increase their value, recognition and influence through the application of new technologies or methodologies. The first factor which determines the success of this is the ability of something … Continue reading
McKinsey interview with MIT researcher Andrew McAfee
McKinsey have a video interview with MIT researcher and Mr. Enterprise 2.0, Andrew McAfee. The two highlights from a HR perspective are below. 9.08 – A brief mention of the possibility of Enterprise 2.0 increasing levels of human capital 3.15 … Continue reading
Re-Writing the operating system for HR
Karl wrote recently on ‘Re-Writing the operating system for business’ and the impact that technology and the internet is having on business models and entire organisations. Reading the post, I was struck how much of what is said could apply … Continue reading
Our current approaches to doing business are fundamentally broken
It hard to both argue with and do justice to John Hagel’s work on the Shift Index and his finding that returns on assets in US public companies have been falling since 1965. Extracts follow and the full pdf is … Continue reading
Are People Truly Predictable?
We were recently featured in a piece on the HR Matters site. We spoke about our work with 4G and how it can aid understanding and problem solving efforts. Here’s a quick introduction. We discussed the idea that people-based issues … Continue reading
