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Why Companies Fail To Engage Today’s Workforce: The Overwhelmed Employee

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We just completed a major study of human capital trends around the world (Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, 2500 organizations in 90 countries) and the message is clear:  companies are...

Spring Break Vacations: How to Get Best Spring Break Vacations Deals

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Its time to go out for Spring holidays. Spring break vacations are a time when you can leave all the hassles behind and head for a tropical island in Hawaii. But the air fares are high in the...

Out Of Work But Not Out Of Options

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I don’t know whether it’s because of the high-profile CIO firings or the high-profile CIO resignations, but there’s a lot of advice out there for unemployed and newly employed CIOs. Even though CIO...

FedEx’s Rob Carter: What It Takes To Be A Board-Level CIO

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There are few chief information officers with as stellar a reputation as Rob Carter’s. He has played an integral role in FedEx’s sophisticated logistics and analytics systems, which have been sources...

Alexandra Levit: Millennial Entrepreneurs At Work

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I recently spoke to Alexandra Levit, who is the author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World (10th anniversary edition) and the co-...

Workday Acquires Identified: A Potential Disruptive Move in Recruiting

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This week Workday announced the acquisition of Identified, a private company which was focused on using Big Data techniques to help recruiters find great candidates. While Workday positioned this as...

Optimizing Private Fleet and For Hire Moves Simultaneously

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Guy DeFlorio, the CIO at Mutual Materials, recently spoke at the Oracle Value Chain Summit 2014 about how his company implemented a Transportation Management System (TMS) from Oracle and were able to...

WhatsApp Valuation – New Business Model of "Value for Many"

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There is an interesting correlation between wars and business models. As we have seen in history, an invention of a new weapon can provide unique competitive advantage in the battlefield and can be...