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Employees Don’t Trust Anti-Retaliation Statutes

HR Digest

The magnitude of this significant problem is outlined in ECI’s Global Business Ethics Survey. It noted that 44 percent of employees suffered retaliation after reporting wrongdoing of some kind – up from 22 percent in 2013. Corporate compliance officers already know that violation of anti-retaliation statues is an unjustifiable risk.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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How to Think for Yourself When Algorithms Control What You Read

Harvard Business Review

With the flick of a switch, a handful of tech giants can change the nature and extent of mankind’s ingestion of information. In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. beastfromeast/Getty Images. This is all possible because of algorithms. What can be done?

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Mackey told us in our interview that he believes that in recent decades, capitalism has lost its ethical mooring and that the explosion of corporate scandals is evidence of this drifting. Based on their experience, Mackey and Sisodia have coauthored a book, Conscious Capitalism , that was published in January 2013.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Name and address information required. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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