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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. Similar to a team huddle before a rugby match or any other sport, it requires everyone to come together and define each role and goal for the overall team.

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Are You Using These 4 Steps For Organizational Success?

Tanveer Naseer

With the month of September now underway, there’s an unmistakable feeling of renewed energy and determination in the air. Their ability to “deliver happiness” and release unexpected ‘must-have’ technologies respectively, are clearly not mere responses to the challenges they incur from their competition.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

The company focuses on building environmentally friendly work sites and data centers and improving access to clean energy for all. Without secure energy and a stable climate, we won’t be able to make meaningful progress on other challenges — like connecting the world. This interview has been edited and condensed.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. Government subsidies to produce technologically advanced products and undercut foreign manufacturers have buttressed China''s trade prowess. In 2011, the U.S.

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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

They include years of 15% to 20% annual increases in labor costs without compensating productivity growth in manufacturing titans such as China, cheap energy in North America unlocked by hydraulic fracturing, and the increasing complexity and cost of managing global supply chains. Advances in manufacturing technology.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided.