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Success Story: A New Factory, a New Training Methodology, a New Beginning

Clarity Consultants

Our story begins in 2013, when a major global pharmaceutical firm launched a technology transfer project from one of its US factories to a new factory being constructed in Europe.

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Nonperforming Spanish Loans Near All-Time High as Overall Credit Shrinks

MishTalk

Spanish Bank Shrinking Credit Nonperforming Loans The "real" numbers are normalized to account for a change in methodology. The "official" high was 13.62% in December of 2013. Today''s number is just off the all-Time high of 16.73 percent in January of 2014.

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Vietnam and Myanmar Continue to Advance

BCG

The Boston Consulting Group highlighted the growth prospects of Vietnam and Myanmar in late 2013, and the trends that we described in that report have only strengthened since then. See Vietnam and Myanmar: Southeast Asia’s New Growth Frontiers , BCG Focus, December 2013.)

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PRINCE2® and PMBOK®

Gina Abudi

The Message in the Mention Guest post by Ronn Faigen, © Copyright 2013 Ronn Faigen is the General Manager for APMG-US, part of APMG International, a global accreditation and qualifications organization. Project Management managing projects PMBOK® PMI PRINCE2™ project framework project methodology projects'

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Insights from Australia's Leading Social Sector Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

Launched on 16 August 2012, the SVA Consulting Quarterly is a new online publication dedicated to sharing new ideas, tools and methodologies with leaders, managers, and thinkers in the Australian non-profit sector. Copyright © 2013 Tom Spencer. To read the first issue of the SVA Quarterly, please click here. Categories.

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Stock Buybacks Peaked With Stock Market in 2007: History About to Repeat?

MishTalk

Finally, multiple expansion has been a big driver of equity returns in 2012 and 2013, accounting for about 75% of returns. In 2013, nearly 80% of the stock market rally is attributable to higher PEs. Our leading indicator for wages has turned up, and this tends to lead to lower profit margins.

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Retirement for Chicago Park District Employees, With Full Benefits: Age 58; Reflections on Chicago's Second Triple-Notch Bond Downgrade in Six Months

MishTalk

The agency made good on its April 2013 promise to evaluate state and local pension plans on more realistic assumptions. Based on the new Moody’s methodology, which uses more conservative assumptions, Chicago’s 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90 percent, to $36 billion from $19 billion. This is a triple-notch downgrade.