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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. SC Magazine. Takeaways From the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved from [link].

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A 2015 study that we conducted with the U.S. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S.,

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

Did you know that some life insurance underwriters are attempting to assess your personality — via your magazine and website subscriptions, the photos you post to social media, and more — in order to determine how risky an investment you are? Here are eight to note for 2016. Algorithmic personality detection. Drone lanes.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5% At 20%, China’s share of global R&D expenditure in 2015 was well above Japan’s at 9% or Germany’s at 6% and second only to that of the U.S. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% in 2000 to 2.0% ” But what’s the effect?

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

raised wages to $9 an hour (and they’ll be $10 in 2015), and in June IKEA lifted its minimum wage by 17%. And here’s what to watch out for in 2015: Political winds shifting. Financing the clean economy. ” Will 2015 be a boom year for finding new ways to bring capital to clean energy? Tough choices.