Beyond HR

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The Essential Evolution

Personnel, Human Resources, Talentship

Corning, like many high-tech organizations, traditionally emphasized excellence in its R&D scientists, primarily in the United States.¹ Globalization was recognized as important, but the connection between globalization and people remained fuzzy. By the early twenty-first century, Corning’s HR and business leaders discovered that global expansion, particularly in emerging economies, demanded flexible production capability that depended on a specific type of production engineer. The organization realized that there were only a few such engineers in many global regions and that it took years to train them. If Corning could hire these engineers before other companies ...