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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. They have a handful at level 3, but historically tended to have more at this level.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology? Consider General Motors, which is looking to Silicon Valley for innovative ideas and technology that could give it a competitive edge.

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Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination

Harvard Business Review

Given this context, it comes as little surprise that businesses — like Facebook, Google, and telecommunications companies — have the motivation to improve internet awareness and access. Meanwhile, China’s e-commerce market is 80 times as large. according to a WSJ/VentureSource analysis.

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. According to Techies.com, the average age of a software developer in Silicon Valley is 24. She was bracingly blunt.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater.