Summary: Strategic Opportunities for HR (Articles from August 2014)

Here is a summary of the story so far:

From July

Changes in work, the workforce and the workplace
HR and competitive advantage


And this month’s articles:

Competitive positioning / blue ocean strategy

• Competitive positioning and the customer value chain    

• HR and customers / working with Marketing

Core competencies

• Business excellence value chain

Organisational capabilities

• The strategic importance of agility
• HR’s role of organisation capabilities
• Capabilities and the organisation (HCM) value chain
• The organisation strategy map
• Support for two separate value chains
• Support for two separate value chains / 2
• Great organisations can exist in rubbish businesses
• HR generates most value in the organisation value chain

Differentiation, trade offs and best fit

• My contribution to the Zappos drinking game
• HCL’s blue ocean droplets

Outcomes

• Outcomes contain organisational capabilities
• Outcomes are HR's deliverables
• Outcomes help us be more strategic
• Outcome help us seem more credible
• Outcomes provide the opportunity to take accountability