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Popular Locations to Live in Croatia

Strategy Driven

The demand for coastal property for sale in Croatia at an all-time high, and the real estate market here is very active. These resorts were constructed for the Austro-Hungarian nobility in the 19th century due to their moderate climate. This region has three of Croatia’s finest national parks: Paklenica, Kornati, and Krka.

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How Co-Nationals Can Help Firms Thrive When Moving Overseas

The Horizons Tracker

Rather than those jobs going to un- or under-employed locals, the jobs often get offshored to places where the talent exists. In a recent article I looked at what happens when companies can’t access the talent they need due to migration issues.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Move Your Analytics Operation from Artisanal to Autonomous

Harvard Business Review

I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model. The computer constructing the model “learns” during the construction process what model best fits the data. Modern Analytics uses fewer than 2.5

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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced. Not all fixed cost reductions were people.

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How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services

Harvard Business Review

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents.