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Recent ICEDR Research Projects

Taking Charge - A roadmap for a successful career and a meaningful life for high potential corporate women leaders


We live in a world where less than five percent of CEOs are women. If more women are going to rise to the top, we need to understand the secrets of the few that made it. For this reason, our research focused on interviewing sixty top women executives from twenty organizations, in order to fully understand what they do that makes them successful. They shared their experiences of their personal journeys to the top. The result is a call to arms for rising female executives, a report that is candid, thought-provoking and full of advice for the next generation of women leaders.

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The Talent Management Value Chain


You are a seasoned talent management executive looking to take your people strategy to the next level. The outputs of ICEDR’s talent management value chain research project describe the actions that talent leaders and their companies can take to address pressing talent management challenges. The research team prepared a report that gives examples of what companies are doing to tackle strategic talent management priorities. The outputs of the project also include webinars, presentations and videos.

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The Purpose-Driven Enterprise Initiative – Realizing Your Company’s Collective Ambition


In 2010, we launched the Purpose-Driven Enterprise Initiative, a research initiative that took us deep inside of some leading companies who were using a core sense of purpose to energize, align and differentiate their companies. Our research team has prepared a richly detailed report about Purpose-Driven Enterprises, based on interviews at leading global companies from a variety of industries.

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Building the High Flex / High Value HR Team

ICEDR received so many calls and emails concerning the role HR should be playing in turbulent times that we decided to launch a special project at no additional cost to our partners. We surveyed more than 45 companies and interviewed over two dozen HR executives to capture key challenges and solutions. The research team prepared a report on these findings and offers a framework to help determine priorities so you can take action to lead including:

  1. Sample memos that HR could send to their CEO to help demonstrate how HR can be a valuable partner during difficult economic times.  
  2. Sample memos that HR could send to their HR Colleagues to help demonstrate how HR can be a valuable partner during difficult economic times.  
  3. An article on how some Chinese firms are responding to the crisis.  
  4. A compilation of research reports other companies and publications have written on this topic.

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