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The Secret of a Thriving Company Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

It's frustrating and confusing when values are only words for marketing campaigns and corporate communications. Market Culture creates a competitive, fast-paced, results-oriented environment. This culture emphasizes efficient, reliable, and cost-effective performance. This culture highlights coming in first. Dvorak, N., &

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. trillion in 2016. Figures for 2016 forecast a surplus of $25 billion. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. With just 2.6

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Is AI the Solution for the Banking Sector? (Part 2: Solution)

Tom Spencer

Taking Uber as an example, the company first identified expensive taxi/limo fares (problem) and aimed to use a GPS enabled smart phone app to connect drivers with riders more efficiently (solution). While many banks have introduced new technologies, they have done so partly to increase efficiencies, reduce headcount, and save costs.

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Wearable Technology: Implications for Entrepreneurs and Organizations

Tom Spencer

They can then perform analytics on these data in order to train their workers to be more efficient and productive in the workplace. Entrepreneurs should not only think about using analytics collected by wearables to improve their startups, but also be on the lookout for opportunities in the wearable technology market.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. Reader Alain writes. " But here we are. But here we are.

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. It’s mostly driven by the financial markets and investor positioning. There are huge efficiencies that can be had. Despite that, the whole industry is still very large.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

McKinsey’s New York office recently received a perfect score for the 10th year in a row for the Human Rights Campaign Foundations 2016 corporate equality index, which focuses on the best places to work with regards to LGBT equality and gender equity for women. headquarters in New York City.