The HR Concours®
The HR Concours® is an ongoing professional development program for the chief human resource officers (CHRO) at major corporations. It is focused on helping each member effectively serve as a proficient business executive - not a better personnel manager. And the program facilitates extraordinary peer networking among its members.
The members-only conferences provide - in highly interactive settings - ongoing access to the premier business thinkers and continuing insights into best future practices in business and human resource management. Quarterly teleconferences provide a multimedia vehicle for members to develop management understanding and expertise among their staff.
Other business executives within the member organizations develop new insights on key people and business management issues through the Executive Perspective conference series.
Members benefit from participation in and access to the nGenera groundbreaking research on future best management practices.
Executive Summit
This summit is a combined meeting of our human resource, information technology and financial executive programs and is designed to enhance knowledge and communication across these functions.
| New Platforms for Business Performance | |
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| March 22-25, 2009 The Grand Del Mar San Diego, California |
Nicholas Carr - on the fundamental shift in the nature of computing Joe Pine - on authenticity in customer relationships Jay Conger - on CEO leadership and senior executive success |
| Configuring an On-Demand Organization | |
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| July 12-15, 2009 The Sanctuary at Kiawah Kiawah Island, South Carolina |
Daniel Pink - inside the hearts and minds of the free-agent workforce Lynda Gratton - on energetic people, teams, and workplaces Peter Weill - on enterprise architecture and business execution |
| Innovation through Collaboration | |
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| October 11-14, 2009 The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Rita Gunther McGrath - on innovation and growth in established businesses Jeffrey Pfeffer - on power and control in high-performing organizations John Boudreau - on human capital and sustainable business performance |
Executive Perspectives
These topically-focused one-and-a-half-day conferences for senior business executives help expand viewpoints on rapidly-evolving business issues and opportunities. World-class authorities and thought leaders join participants in a business-casual hotel setting for interactive exploration of the most pressing issues of contemporary management. Two appropriate-level executives from each member organization are invited to attend.
Topics are determined approximately 120 days prior to each session so as to ensure the timeliness of the content.
| September 18-19, 2008 October 30-31, 2008 February 12-13, 2009 April 29-30, 2009 September 17-18, 2009 |
The Ritz-Carlton - Chicago The Ritz-Carlton - Phoenix Four Seasons Hotel - Houston Hotel Marlowe - Cambridge Fairmont Hotel - Chicago |
Senior Executive Interchanges
Senior Executive Interchanges are one-and-a-half-day hotel-based sessions featuring world-class authorities interactively exploring emerging issues in corporate management. Most attendees arrive the night before for dinner and conversation with other attendees. Two attendees per corporation – at the level of CEO, divisional president, CFO or other executive committee member and their direct reports – are invited to attend.
| Creating the Next Generation Enterprise | |
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| May 7-8, 2009 Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, Illinois |
Jim Collins - on key steps on the path from good to great Tammy Erickson - on the changing workforce and employee values Don Tapscott - on the new economics of mass collaboration |
| Managing the Next Generation Enterprise | |
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| October 19-20, 2009 Hotel Marlowe Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Tammy Erickson - on the changing workforce and employee values Andy McAfee - on the benefits brought by Enterprise 2.0 Don Tapscott - on the new economics of mass collaboration |
HR Re.sults Projects
Each year, members of the HR Concours participate in two Re.sults research projects in the domain of human asset management and corporate learning. They also have access to the complete online library of recent reports on a wide range of HR management issues.
A Re.sults project is a unique form of consulting cooperative that delivers - in 90 days - answers to critical questions at the intersection of business, technology, and human asset management. Re.sults projects create fresh and pragmatic approaches to critical issues long before they are generally understood, let alone mastered.
Each project is a cooperative formed by member corporations with common interests that help shape the project, share their experience, and reap the benefits. The project brings together senior consultants, leading experts, member companies, and the proven research process that led to business reengineering, the value disciplines, and other breakthrough management practices.
Each project concludes with a management report containing a combination of emerging best practices, pragmatic action plans, and innovative management techniques. To make participation as efficient as possible, all major project events are held by teleconference.
Recent projects on HR management include:
- Employee Experience and Business Results
- Engaging Today's Young Employees
- Talent Readiness Strategies
- Customization versus Standardization
- Accelerating Executive Development
- The Hidden Logic of Business Performance
Members may also participate in research projects in other domains at a reduced fee.
HR Staff Meetings
Four times a year, members join prominent management thinkers and nGenera thought leaders for a 90-minute discussion of a critical HR management issue. These multimedia sessions, transmitted via teleconference and the Internet, include ample opportunity for participants to pose questions and interact with the discussion leaders. These sessions are ideally suited to form the basis for HR staff meetings or key issue workshops. They are archived on the nGenera Web site so that members can access and review the sessions at their convenience. Agendas will be published approximately a month in advance of each session so that subject matter can be responsive to emerging issues and member requests.
2008-2009 HR Staff Meetings
| 11:00am - 12:30pm Eastern U.S. Time | |
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Thursday - September 25, 2008 Thursday - December 11, 2008 Thursday - February 19, 2009 |
Thursday - June 4, 2009 Thursday - September 10, 2009 Thursday - December 17, 2009 |
Thought Leaders
The renowned thought leaders participating in 2009 nGenera programs include:
- John Boudreau on human capital and sustainable business performance
- Nicholas Carr on the fundamental shift in the nature of computing
- Jim Collins on key steps on the path from good to great
- Jay Conger on CEO leadership and senior executive success
- Tammy Erickson on the changing workforce and employee values
- Lynda Gratton on energetic people, teams, and workplaces
- Andy McAfee on the benefits brought by Enterprise 2.0
- Rita Gunther McGrath on innovation and growth in established businesses
- Jeffrey Pfeffer on power and control in high-performing organizations
- Joe Pine on authenticity in customer relationships
- Daniel Pink inside the hearts and minds of the free-agent workforce
- Don Tapscott on the new economics of mass collaboration
- Peter Weill on enterprise architecture and business execution