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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

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How to Change Your Training Programs for the “New Normal”

Clarity Consultants

As a result, in-person training isn’t as efficient of a solution. Instead, companies need solutions that allow them to introduce materials and knowledge to disperse workforces. Additionally, they need to take steps to ensure engagement, leading to better knowledge retention. Use a Microlearning Approach.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Efficiency through syndication. There are various drivers of such efficiency gains: Traditional economies of scale. Minimum efficient scale. brands and capital).