Step 1: Investigate the trends in HR today.

*please note that these learning resources will take substantial time to complete.

• • • • • • • • Investigate both domestic and international challenges*
              • Use these resources to get started*
• • • • • • • • Watch The Lynda course: Management Tips (~5hrs.26 mins.)
              • Watch Human Resource Fundamentals (~56mins.)
              • Read Chapter 2 of Human Resource Transformation: Demonstrating Strategic Leadership in the Face of Future Trends
              • Review and use as a reference: Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line: How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable Growth

Step 2: Review Companies with an HR Dept.

• • • • • • • • • • Review companies with an HR Department in order to better understand the role they play in large and small companies, different type of companies, domestic and international companies, and companies that provide a product and ones that provide a service. You should choose a minimum of 4 companies of different types.

Step 3: Identify an Opportunity

• • • • • • • • • Using the book, The Designing for Growth Field Book, and information gathered from you investigations and interviews, you are ready to identify an opportunity, an area that you want to strategically address related to human resources. (See Step 1 in the book for detailed directions)
                • Write down an area of opportunity you think you might want to explore. This could be a new compensation plan, a plan for outsourcing, a plan for a major layoff of employees with a site closing, or any area you would like to address.
        • Complete the chart to determine whether your opportunity is appropriate for design thinking. Once you have worked through the chart, filling in each area and answering the questions, if you opportunity is not appropriate for design thinking, choose another and go through the process again.