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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Driving take up among under-represented groups: Through local and regional apprenticeship accelerators and a dedicated hardship fund for those most in need e.g. for help with travel costs or apprenticeship support services and to target SMEs not yet engaged with the system with HR, coaching, and system navigation support.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Travel & Tourism. Telecommunications.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Telecommunications industry service providers. Group marketing programs, such as auto dealer clusters, municipalities for economic development, travel and tourism destinations, trade association and product image upgrades.

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Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses

Harvard Business Review

Technology, with a gap of 44%, was the outlier—not because the global presence in the boardroom is so low, but because the percentage of revenue from international sources is so high. Neither Utilities nor Telecommunications are represented in the chart below because all but a few companies in those sectors have no non-domestic revenue.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools. Technology couldn't have been the issue. Smartphones were becoming smarter. This was obvious.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

Companies fail to get the most out of the $12 billion a year they spend on sales enablement tools and the billions more on CRM technology. And hiring the right candidates also becomes a problem, especially as new buying processes, driven by online technologies, reshape selling tasks.

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A Call to Boycott U.S. Tech Platforms Over the NSA's PRISM Surveillance

Harvard Business Review

based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU Global business Government Information & technology' The utter disrespect with which U.S. government, or U.S.-based