Business Strategy & Commercial Acumen
We believe the HR function can make a substantial contribution to business strategy and improving organisation effectiveness. To do this, HR professionals need to be commercial - understand their organisation's business model, how it makes money, and how to improve performance. There also needs to be a clear line of sight between business and people strategies. This category covers HR's role in developing and communicating business strategy, how to connect business and people strategies, and how to develop a business and commercial savvy HR function.
14 January 2020
Future Insight: Responding to Trends, Threats and Opportunities
This discussion paper outlines HR’s role in developing foresight and organisation capabilities around vigilance, future sensing, environment scanning, and agile decision making in the absence of full information.
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View allMarch 23rd 2020
CRF Coronavirus Statement
The circumstances of the last few weeks have had an unprecedented impact on individuals, business and society as a whole. Whilst we are all uncertain as to the future, we have to make some decisions and assumptions about the Coronavirus epidemic and how CRF will continue to deliver value and support to our members, partners and broader network.
Read ArticleMarch 5th 2020
CRF Creating Purposeful Organisations with Prof. Alyson Meister
In March 2020, CRF (Corporate Research Forum), held a masterclass titled: HR Leaders' Forum: Building Purposeful Organisations. Watch this short interview with one of the event speakers Prof. Alyson Meister from IMD Business School, answering questions on how changes in the business environment are affecting the nature of careers and can true purpose be authentic in purely financially driven organisations?
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CRF Creating Purposeful Organisations with Amy Sawbridge
In March 2020, CRF (Corporate Research Forum), held a masterclass titled: HR Leaders' Forum: Building Purposeful Organisations. Watch this short interview with one of the event speakers, advisor Amy Sawbridge, answering questions on the benefits of greater alignment between consumer brand and employee brand.
Watch VideoJanuary 28th 2020
Forecasting and How to Improve It - with Margaret Heffernan
Why is our approach to forecasting so poor? Journalist, author and former CEO Margaret Heffernan on why even the best forecasters can only predict for 400 days, and on why greater emphasis is needed on scenario planning.
Watch VideoJanuary 27th 2020
Future Insight: Responding to Trends, Threats and Opportunities - Meeting Review
Read a summary of our January 2020 event on building foresight capability and planning for uncertain outcomes. The event featured contributions from Margaret Heffernan, neuroscientist Dr Kris De Meyer, Dan Barnard of fanSHEN and Sarah Gillard of John Lewis Partnership.
Read Post Meeting ReviewJanuary 14th 2020
Future Insight: Responding to Trends, Threats and Opportunities
This discussion paper outlines HR’s role in developing foresight and organisation capabilities around vigilance, future sensing, environment scanning, and agile decision making in the absence of full information.
View ResearchSeptember 23rd 2019
2020 CRF Learning Programme
CRF Learning is built on Corporate Research Forum’s 25 years of unparalleled HR experience. Our suite of HR learning and development programmes target enhancing the capability of the HR function and the people within it. We’re able to leverage our research and resources to help HR professionals rethink their whole approach to HR, making a fundamental difference to organisational performance. From human resources business partners, to HR directors, managers and facilitators, our 2020 CRF Learning Programme seeks to develop the individuals within HR, whilst also supporting the capability of the people function to deliver the organisational strategy. We can engage with organisations and human resources business partners on a bespoke basis, developing custom solutions tailored to the specific requirements and context of your organisation.
Read Event DocumentMay 31st 2019
CRFCast - HR Insights from the Corporate Research Forum: Agile HR: Sky UK Case Study with Tracey Waters
Tracey Waters, Head of People Engagement and Development at Sky UK, discusses how her team have deployed agile development techniques to transform their working methods and increase the business impact of learning and development. Tracey describes four behaviours that underpin Sky’s approach: being collaborative, iterative, data-driven and person-centric. We discuss some practical lessons learned from implementing agile.
Listen to PodcastMay 22nd 2019
Webinar: Harnessing the HR Technology Revolution
Explore the opportunities and pitfalls of the new HR technology landscape for organisations, featuring Rami Pukkila from Nokia, Ian Bailie of myHRfuture Academy, Nigel Guenole from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Gillian Pillans, CRF’s Research Director.
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