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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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How Impactful Is Machine Learning In Today’s Business World?

Strategy Driven

Since 2012, with the proliferation of Python in general software development, Machine Learning has become the biggest trend in the technology world. Machine learning as a matter it’s appealing because it proposes as an automated form of management for both infrastructures and digital tools. Why Automation Is Important.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. IT as Process Creator.

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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Other fields do this. Why shouldn't business schools and MBAs face the same discipline?

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

.” Lastly, by looking at historical data on publicly traded companies, a team of finance professors set out to build an algorithm to choose the best board members for a given company. This work will likely become even more important as less-transparent algorithms like deep learning become more common.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point.

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