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ByEconomist.com May 5, 2010April 9, 2021

Lloyd Blankfein is CEO of Goldman Sachs, and on Friday the 16th April he described his day as “one of the worst days of my professional life”. This was largely due to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs. The bank was accused of failing to disclose that a hedge fund had influenced the composition of a complex mortgage-debt transaction as well as shorting it. But these “bad” days continued for the CEO and six other bankers.

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Tech Startups Bloom in Gulf as States Try Breaking From Oil

ByBloomberg.com March 11, 2015February 24, 2021

Bloomberg Technology reports how local tech startups are making headway in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This due, to The U.A.E.’s declaration of 2015 as the “year of innovation,” – reflecting aspirations of the Gulf Arab nations to diversify away from oil. As a consequence, Gulf governments are funding entrepreneurship programs seeking to…

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WORKFORCE The future workplace: How to automate intelligently

ByEY July 31, 2018May 1, 2024

This article by EY means that maximizing the value of your automation strategy necessarily requires linkage to your people strategy and organizational analysis. Starting with the premise that automation offers tremendous potential for leaders looking to drive transformation in their organization: from cost savings and increased delivery speed, to new operating models, to higher value…

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Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it

ByTED March 13, 2016April 9, 2021

Human-computer interaction researcher and designer Sean Follmer, designs shape-changing and deformable interfaces that are build to make the most of our natural dexterity and spatial abilities. In this paradigm-shifting TED talk, he poses the question: What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? He answers the same question by employing himself…

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Lean Management Journal – “Changing a Continuous Improvement Initiative into a Global Program” by Joseph Paris

ByJoseph Paris July 9, 2014May 6, 2023

“Changing a Continuous Improvement Initiative into a Global Program”; LMJ Board Member and XONITEK’s Chairman, Joseph Paris, discusses the tribal nature of people and how it hinders the scaling of lean in business. Published in Lean Management Journal in the July 2014 issue. Download PDF

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Supply Chain ‘Normal’ Appears on Horizon, With Sights Set on March

ByBloomberg.com November 25, 2022November 28, 2022

Several gauges show ship congestion continues to clear up even as shortages persist Few observers have had a better perch to watch the pandemic slowly clog — and now free up — one of the biggest arteries of global trade than Captain J. Kipling “Kip” Louttit. Two years ago this week, as fully loaded container ships…

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Creative destruction

ByEconomist.com July 2, 2014April 7, 2021

The Economist reports on new development taking place in the sphere of higher education. Coined as one of the great successes of the welfare state, what was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement. Now a new revolution has begun, based on 3 impacting factors: rising costs, changing demand and disruptive technology….

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