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 allJuly 24th 2020
Post Meeting Notes - The Agile Dashboard
On 24th July CRF and PARC members gathered for The Agile Dashboard: Designing Agility Into Your Company. “If the keyword for the 20th century was ‘speed’, the keyword for the 21st century is ‘agility’.” So said Professor Joe Perfetti, our speaker for this session. That was before the coronavirus outbreak re-wrote the rules and re-ordered the business world. His statement is now more apposite than ever. Entire sectors have been devastated. Business leaders are now surveying the world after the lockdown with no idea of what business-as-usual will look like or even whether the very idea has now become outdated. Of one thing we can be sure, though, businesses will have to adapt and change fast.
Read Post Meeting ReviewJune 17th 2020
Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit - Professor Alex Edman's slides
These are session Slides by Professor Alex Edmans, London Business School from Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit on 17th June 2020
View PresentationJune 17th 2020
Post Meeting Notes - Grow The Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit
At a Zoom Interactive event on 17th June, Professor Alex Edmans led a webinar for CRF and PARC members in which he discussed his findings with particular relevance to incentives and reward.
Read Post Meeting ReviewJune 8th 2020
Post Covid - 19 Planning Tool
The current crisis has caused many businesses to rethink their strategies and tactics. There are winners and losers, but its hard to think of a company that will be unaffected. As we all know, HR plans and strategies flow from the business strategy – so is it time to re-evaluate our HR plans based on the changed or changing reality
Read ArticleMay 6th 2020
The Economic Impact of COVID-19 - Roger Bootle Slides
The Economic Impact of COVID-19 - Roger Bootle Slides
View PresentationMarch 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.
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