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March 15th 2019
The Lateral Organisation: A Solution for Managing Complexity
This document provides a brief overview of the types of lateral capabilities needed to help organisations adapt and react to changes in the business environment. It also explores agility and scale, two core fundamentals in organisations, and how to balance these.
How aware are your HR leaders and their team of your company’s business risks? Almost every example of business misfortune can be reframed as a case of mishandled risk. This paper looks at foreseeable business risks and poses a question - what role does the human element play in mitigating risks?
In 2018, 1,750 HR professionals attended CRF-led events, with over 300 hours of learning delivered. Over 350 senior HR and business leaders joined us in Lisbon for our 10th International Conference and 500 participants attended CRF Learning programmes.
Download our 2018 summary to find out more about our key deliverables from the past 12 months.
The sixth edition of of our e-magazine - Progress - takes a look at the number of topics including the future of work, building high-performing teams, the value of HR analytics and the skills required to succeed in a top HR role. In each issue of Progress we focus on three areas important for every HR professional - your organisation, your role and your career.
Within this sixth edition of our e-magazine - Progress - Michael Wade, Professor of Innovation & Strategy at IMD Business School discusses the role of humility in modern leadership.
Progress - Issue 6: How to prepare for the future of work
Withing this sixth edition of oue e-magazine - Progress - Mike Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School takes a look at past predictions around the future of work and highlights some possible scenarios that could play out in the future.
Progress - Issue 6: What makes an effective, high-performing team?
Within this sixth edition of our e-magazine - Progress - Ina Toegel, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD Business School explores the seven common characteristics of high-performing teams.
Progress - Issue 6: Amongst other things, people analytics demonstrates HR's value for top management
Within the sixth edition of our e-magazine - Progress - Dave Milner, Founder of HRCurator explores why it is important for HR professionals to demonstrate the strategic value of HR activities and how HR analytics can help with this.
Progress - Issue 6: HR Business Partner - 4 business critical things that you probably aren't doing
Within this sixth edition of our e-magazine - Progress - John Whelan, Director at Corporate Research Forum challenges HR Business Partners to test themselves on four business critical items.
Progress - Issue 6: The 'right stuff' - what does it take to step up to the top role in HR?
Within this sixth edition of our e-magazine - Progress - Corporate Research Forum's Research Director, Gillian Pillans, interviews ARM's ex-Chief People Officer to find out what it takes to succeed in a top HR role.
