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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. Find more information about the event and survey results here. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. private-sector research and development. For the last 20 years, however, these companies have been expanding most of their activities more rapidly abroad than at home, and this trend accelerated in the 2000s. A Vital Contribution.

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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent. Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things. It’s still worth a look now.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.