October 23, 2017 by Mike Whittaker

Can you prove your employees are competent?

Nissan Suspends Japanese Car Production For Two Weeks

Unauthorized inspectors were used to certify cars made for the Japanese market

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/nissan-japan-suspends-production.html

Japan’s second-largest automaker, Nissan Motors has suspended production in all 6 of its Japanese factories after it was discovered that uncertified technicians had conducted vehicle inspections without the required credentials to certify the cars. This comes only weeks after Nissan issued a recall for all vehicles sold in the market over the past three years.

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October 2, 2017 by Mike Whittaker

The CEO’s Guide to Competing Through HR

This is a great article, written by Frank Bafaro, Diana Ellsworth, and Neel Gandhi of McKinsey & Company (July 2017).

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/the-ceos-guide-to-competing-through-hr

It talks about the benefits of HR stepping out of its traditional silo and taking on a strategic role, using talent to drive value. HR should be a driver of strategy and deploy talent in support of it. They can do this by utilizing new technological tools which unleash the power of data analytics.

But to use data analytics, there needs to ...

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