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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

In a hazardous world, managers can learn from the world of scuba diving: train hard, because you’ll never get rid of risk Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver. This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Within minutes, his brain was starved of oxygen.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. Becoming a lawyer requires a four-year bachelor’s degree and three years of law school training. A management analyst helps an organization reduce costs, increase revenue, and become more profitable.

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

The higher cost of 3D display technology and the availability of content continue to bottleneck the growth in this industry but it’s changing and changing fast. Unlike 3D films made for the cinema or stereoscopic televisions operating with glasses, such 3D displays require proprietary content combining as many as eight discrete images.

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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

After all, investing in new technologies is one thing, but investment in technology also requires investment in training so that your staff have the skills and expertise to implement it effectively. The pertinence of each to your business’ specific needs may vary but across all industries these are the ones to watch… 3D printing.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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The Japan Earthquake Rattles Supply Chains, Too

Harvard Business Review

Beyond the devastating and saddening human costs, the earthquake in Japan is another reminder of the complexity of the world's supply chains and the great interdependencies in global production systems. The world's supply chains are complex and highly optimized to deliver products efficiently at the lowest cost.

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Why No One Is Reading Your White Paper

Harvard Business Review

Traditional marketing, which was heavily skewed to broadcast media, worked because it allowed marketers to reach a lot of people in a short amount of time at very low cost. Marketers have been trained to be consumer focused. In fact, it is exactly that line of thinking which makes it difficult for marketers to succeed.