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CPG Hiring Trends

N2Growth Blog

The evolution of new technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic have greatly influenced consumer habits worldwide, consumers are becoming more demanding, and companies are working on efficiencies to offset the negative impact of inflation on their P&Ls. Physical skills are steadily declining as automation technologies become more advanced.

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Job skills in demand in 2021

HR Digest

Hard skills can be an exhaustive list, hence we have pared it down somewhat to include technical and management skills. Brand Management. Finance special emphasis on block chain and Cryptocurrency. Supply chain management. Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning. Cloud computing. Video production.

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Data: One Antidote to Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

But in the era of Big Data and decision-making at the desktop, it's vexing to think that any company with significant technology investments would allow the all-too-human traits of ownership debates and subjective opinion to override robust data analysis. But Dan, every supply chain model we've run shows that the quantities are way too large.

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Why Fraudulent Ad Networks Continue to Thrive

Harvard Business Review

At a medical device company, a brand manager was examining a chart of daily traffic to his website. For someone responsible for a website’s traffic, the scale and swiftness of the drop should have made him gasp, but the manager nodded knowingly. Despite the best efforts there, spam never goes away.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Frito-Lay has already made competition the cornerstone of its Super Bowl advertising , and Toyota , desperate to remind people what a wonderful corporate citizen it can be, invites aspiring innovators to suggest how the firm's technology can be used for good in unexpected ways. Think of them as part of the global supply chain.

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The Benefits of Unplugging as a Team

Harvard Business Review

” A growing body of neuroscience research has begun to reveal the exact ways in which information age technologies cut against the natural grain of the human mind. We once asked a global technology firm’s leadership to try a “stone age” solution as they conferred on how to implement a newly hatched strategy.

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