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Carnival of HR – April 22, 2015 Edition

Lead Change Blog

As our turn to host approached, we started thinking about Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day 2015 or TOSADTW. We weren’t looking for technology, but rather for values that held true yesterday, hold true today, and will hold true tomorrow. This year’s event will take place tomorrow, April 23.

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The Spatial Transformation Of Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

The first of these is the growing importance of software patents, which they suggest are extremely concentrated in these tech clusters. The second factor is the reallocation of non-software patents away from major population centers towards the tech clusters. in the 1970s to around 50% today. in the 1970s to around 50% today.

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Is The Golden Era Of Tech Clusters On The Wane?

The Horizons Tracker

The rise of the information technology industry has seen the emergence of a number of key tech hubs across the United States. They found a considerable spike in software-related patents in recent years, as whereas they accounted for just 2.5% of patents in the 1970s, this had mushroomed to 50% by 2015.

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Is A Shortage Of Tech Talent Driving Innovation Overseas?

The Horizons Tracker

That’s beginning to shift however, with R&D hubs emerging in countries like China, India and Israel, and a recent study argues that the role played by information technology in innovation is a major driver behind this change.

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Why Diversity Hiring Is Important

ExactHire - Leadership

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Software Developers.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.