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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

By now it’s practically a business fable, but when Alan Mulally took the reins at Ford in 2006, senior management actually had “meetings week”—five days each month in which executives held non-stop meetings. Obviously, working from home presents a different set of challenges.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

Human Resource Planning, 2006. This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws.

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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is an alliance of strategic process and systems research, universities, industry partners, innovative startups, and operating divisions. [link] The BASF Global Know-How Verbund supports the interlinked product flows. These closely bundled partnerships each have a specific focus and competency to support the supply chain. McKinsey & Co.

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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

When developers discover a bug in a software program or operating system, cybercriminals have a window of opportunity to exploit the vulnerability before it is fixed. All organisations should run on secure operating systems, at least Windows 10. Zero-day exploits. Educate staff. Protecting your business from spear phishing and whaling.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: China Manufacturing.

MishTalk

In what should be no surprise to Mish readers, the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI™ shows Operating conditions deteriorate at quickest pace since last September, and new export orders plunge. Operating conditions have now worsened for two successive months. December 2006 (29). November 2006 (20). October 2006 (17).

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US Army Major Emails Mish the "Perfect Solution to This Iraq Thing"

MishTalk

When I left my position as defense secretary in 2006, Iraqis — with a love for democracy just like our founding fathers — were refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of practically everyone, not just tyrants. What a riot. Thanks USAM, for seeing things as they are.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

The firm’s main capabilities include: actuarial, business & organization transformation, digital, marketing and sales, operations & technology, risk management, and strategy & value sourcing. The firm has four offices in the region: in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, and Riyadh. Roland Berger.