Strategic HR: August 2008 Archives

Organizations merge, make acquisitions, or simply reorganize in an effort to make the whole better than the sum of the individual parts. In organizations, we refer to this capability as "collaboration." Companies that succeed over time learn to collaborate well.

In this video Dave Ulrich discusses the two parts of the collaboration capability: Managing for Efficiency and Managing for Leverage.

Additional Resources

	Collaboration as an organization capability is discussed in-depth in the book, How Leaders Build Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood.
	View videos on each of the organization capabilities.

An article by Dave Ulrich & Wayne Brockbank
The RBL Group | Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan

The informal business partner model has existed for well over 100 years when effective staff support functions, including HR, contributed to business results. Formalizing how HR professionals create more value as "business partners" has been of increased interest in the last 10-15 years. Given the emerging importance of HR as a contributor to business success, we suggest that it might be useful to pause and reflect on what we have learned in the past decade about the relevance of the business partner model and on the challenges that lie ahead. (Click on the icon below to download the entire article.)

Download the article "The Business Partner Model: Past & Future Perspectives" in .PDF format.

An RBL Institute Mini Forum White Paper
By Dave Ulrich & Justin Allen

Participating RBL Institute Members:
Deborah Beckmann, Goldman Sachs | Bob Bloss & Colleen Meurer, Hallmark | Chris Altizer & Kevin Duffy, Pfizer | Wendy Butler, Royal Bank of Scotland | Keith Lawrence, Procter & Gamble

Amidst a slowing economy and turmoil in financial sectors around the world, leading companies are finding innovative compensation strategies increasingly important as they seek to ensure high performance and high retention. This paper outlines challenges companies are facing in the area of compensation and innovations they are deploying in order to stay afloat as the business environment becomes more and more volatile.In collaboration with compensation experts from Goldman Sachs, Hallmark, Pfizer, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Procter & Gamble, we outline five key challenges leading organizations face today, and six innovative compensation solutions they are using to surmount the challenges.

Download the RBL Institute mini-forum whitepaper "Innovations in Compensation" in .PDF format.