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Disruption as usual
This website uses cookies to provide necessary site functionality and improve your online experience. By using this website, you agree to the use of cookies as outlined in KPMG's online privacy statement. Disruption as usual 1000 Canada’s automotive sector is undergoing an unprecedented transformation, driven by rapidly shifting tariffs, global uncertainties, and new complexities.
Colin Strong in seven: 'It is little wonder that people are rethinking what ‘being human’ means' | Feature
It is amazing the number of questions you are asked that carry quite fundamental assumptions about being human: some about the reasons that sit under our behaviours, others about how we engage and change behaviour. For example, many see behaviour as being shaped by the unconscious; others say it’s about the systems we live in; and some say we all have individual agency.
CultureStudio hires full-time head of insights | News
Ness (pictured) previously freelanced for CultureStudio for 18 months and has experience as a journalist, researcher and ethnographer. CultureStudio was founded in 2020 by Hanna Chalmers and had operated as a network of cultural specialists from across the world. The appointment of Ness is hoped to expand the consultancy’s capacity to reach a greater number of clients. Chalmers said: “Delighted to have persuaded Jimmy to join CultureStudio full time.
How do we make quant more engaging? | Opinion
Can you imagine spending weeks, even months, cracking a difficult business challenge, and then on the day of the debrief you feel the need to start with the apology “we have a lot to get through today; I hope you haven’t had a big lunch”, knowing full well that you are about to blind them with more slides than a flip-flop factory? The worst thing about this all-too-common scenario is that we do this to ourselves.
“Save Mercy” rally protests hospital closure in Chicago
On Aug. 19, more than one hundred healthcare workers, activists and community members gathered in front of Mercy Hospital on Chicago’s South Side for a rally to protest against its impending closure in 2021. Mercy is the only teaching hospital between Northwestern Memorial and the University of Chicago, a distance which spans 160 city blocks. Its closure would result in a healthcare desert for more than 1 million residents of Chicago’s South Side.
Why Desktop Apps Refuse to Die
Jumpstart your Angular applications with Indigo.Design, a unified platform for visual design, UX prototyping, code generation, and app development. Desktop apps have been around for a while — since the beginning of the personal computing revolution. They’ve weathered the transition from floppy disks to DVDs, and urvived the internet era and the mobile revolution. The question is, why? I’m here to argue that the humble and unloved desktop app is here to stay.
Lack of available training and apprenticeship opportunities hinders social mobility in Greater Manchester
Dave Power, Group Chief Executive of One Manchester, who own and manage more than 12,000 homes in central and east Manchester, comments on skills and employment ahead of the Budget on 29th October: We welcome the Prime Minister’s recent commitment to provide an additional £2bn in longer-term funding for social housing.
How to Drive Digital Transformation in a Changing World
Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. He’s also the author of Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business, Based on almost ten years of research, and using multiple case studies, Gupta’s book shows how the rules of business have changed and why it’s no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage.
Safe shelter? | Feature
The refugee crisis is not considered a worthy charitable cause by most UK adults, according to RDSi’s recent research project for The Worldwide Tribe. By Dave Power. In October 2016, the semi-permanent refugee camp in Calais known as ‘The Jungle’ was closed by the French authorities and cleared of an estimated 8, 136 inhabitants. The lucky ones were relocated to temporary centres outside of ...
The Incredible List of Successful Babson College Alumni (Part 1: Undergraduates)
Babson College is one of the many, many prominent colleges in the Greater Boston area. Similar to many other colleges, several alumni have gone on to do some incredible things, including and not limited to, starting their own companies. We partnered up with Babson to create a slideshow showcasing who has attended the college and what they have been up to.
Get to Know... Matt Kaplan, GM of Emerging Products at LogMeIn
“Great products are like great stories and product leaders need to be among the chief storytellers in their company,” said Matt Kaplan, who has had a successful career building and leading products for early stage and high growth tech companies. “Most stories have a hero or protagonist, a key tension or problem they’re faced with, and hopefully a happy ending or resolution. Products have the same structure with a target user, a key pain and a product vision that solves it,” said Kaplan.
How to Become a Social Business
For years, business leaders have heard the mantra: Your marketing department must embrace social media. Blogs, podcasts, Facebook, and Twitter are all important. But that vision of the future may actually be too narrow, says Mark Fidelman, author of Socialized!: How the Most Successful Businesses Harness the Power of Social. He argues that we need to reframe the conversation because the real challenge is becoming a social business.
Seeing Past Misconceptions To Recognize Potential: The Case For Hiring The Visually Impaired
The unemployment rate for qualified blind job applicants is a staggering 75 percent. Massachusetts is in a unique position to change that. Pictured: Jeff Paquette, center, a graduate of Johnson and Wales University, waits to speak to a recruiter during a job fair for the visually impaired at the Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.
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