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Consultant Marketing Trust Barometer

Jerry Fletcher

Each year since 2000, this worldwide Public Relations Agency with offices in major cities around the world publishes an annual survey of trust and credibility of the world’s four major institutions – Government, Business, Media and NGOs. People trusted folks like themselves more than Businesses, institutions, Governments, and NGOs.

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First Six Months – Adjusting to Consulting Life

Tom Spencer

Bill Nielsen graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business last June, and began working at Bain & Company in Chicago in September 2018. The first week was mostly training and orientation. She worked in government and nonprofit consulting in Washington, DC and Chicago. Any highs or lows? Image: Pexels.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

Cybersecurity is important partly because of the huge costs that cyber-attacks can impose on governments, businesses, and consumers. Cybersecurity Ventures, a US research firm, predicts that cyber-attacks “will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021, up from $3 trillion in 2015” ( PwC, 2018 ). Zero-day exploits. Educate staff.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

In particular, AI is used in the defense sector for training the military, creating advanced weapons, surveillance purposes, and providing cybersecurity. As for the aerospace sector, it leverages artificial intelligence for air traffic management, manufacturing, training pilots, and fuel consumption optimization. .

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

If this is the case, then governments should provide incentives to firms for investing in AI and robotics systems. According to Darrell West, Director of the Centre for Technology Innovation at Brookings, artificial intelligence has a 50% chance of outperforming at all human tasks within the next decade (Coats, 2018). Image: Pexels.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

Along with industries’ trend for sustainability, the PM sector will be looking for ways to deliver value to society, the environment, and corporate governance (e.g., But how can project management contribute to sustainability? reducing energy consumption, supporting local communities, enhancing physical and mental well-being, etc.).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: IMF "Baseline Scenario.

MishTalk

What Has Government Done to Our Money? The optimistic scenario assumes 2% growth, but that scenario does not start until 2018, and only if labor reforms in Spain and Europe take place. downturn that the IMF expects the country to suffer this year, the average growth for the Spanish economy between 2014 and 2018 will be 0.6%.