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Impact of AI in Supply Chain Management
Artificial intelligence (AI) in supply chain management is no longer about a future promise. There may be some variations in adoption across industries, but the technology is having a significant impact on how companies operate today. That’s the broad conclusion from KPMG’s 2020 Living in an AI World study. But is it possible to quantify
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Why Is Human Resource Planning Important?
Human resource planning enables businesses to meet their current and future demands for talent, allowing human resource managers to anticipate and develop the skills most valuable to an organization, and providing the enterprise with the optimal balance of staff in terms of available skill-sets and numbers of personnel. Proper planning also provides a path for
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Value Streams Security, and Agile Software Delivery in a Unified Platform
A lot of press releases in the tech industry are interesting but aren’t very important in the grand scheme of things. Occasionally, announcements come out that really are game-changers. This is one of those announcements. In mid-April, four tech companies came together to form Digital.ai. This merged company brings together leaders in business agility, software
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A Look at Technical Debt
The trade-off required between delivering perfect products and meeting tight deadlines makes the issue of technical debt particularly relevant to software and system developers. Yet this issue is often shifted to the back burner. Why? Because addressing it rarely fulfills an urgent business need. What’s more – and especially for cases that aren’t urgent –
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ICT in Education – The EdTech Revolution
The concept of EdTech – a portmanteau of “education” and “technology” – has evolved considerably since the days when things like free laptops and massive open online courses (MOOCs) were pretty much the focal point of the “ICT in education” discussion. Since those heady days of the hugely popular One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign
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What Is Human Resource Planning?
Organizations seeking to assess and align their human capital with their business strategy rely on a range of metrics – such as recruitment, compensation, composition, turnover, culture engagement, etc. – as part of a strategic human resource planning (HRP) process. In recent times, investor groups with over $14 trillion in assets under management have been
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Are We Too Dependent on Technology?
When I was but a young, fresh-faced whipper-snapper at school, I learned to do math in my head. I had my times tables up to 20 memorized and knew a slew of mental math tricks I could call upon to add, subtract, divide, or multiply any two numbers you threw at me. Over the years,
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Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Be the Tipping Point for Remote Work?
Once upon a time – about two or three months ago – the concept of remote work was regarded by many as something of a luxury. However, in just a few weeks, the emergence and subsequent global spread of coronavirus COVID-19 is now compelling millions of workers and thousands of organizations around the globe to
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