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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Here, we go beyond the public debate on how to re-distribute limited resources and ask how the levy system could support a meaningful expansion of employer-led training across the UK. The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011.

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Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage

Strategy Driven

For example, describe how streaming movies at work is severely interrupting the CRM system, which will affect everyone at bonus time. Keith has over 10 years experience in telecommunications and data networking. He worked at FORE Systems, Marconi, and Ericsson previously. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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The 5 Goals of a Project Manager | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. The trick is to be focused. Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to.

Strategy Driven

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance.

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Corporate China's Succession Struggles

Harvard Business Review

2011 will force China Inc. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker. However, Huawei doesn't have a transparent management system so it isn't clear if Ren Jr. to come of age, according to my little crystal ball.

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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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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”