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Engineering and Science based qualifications, the most successful disciplines for Leadership

Engineering and Science based qualifications, the most successful disciplines for Leadership

Starting out as an engineer is the leading first job to becoming a potential CEO for one of the top 100 companies in the US and the UK a study has revealed, also more top CEOs now have engineering degrees than MBAs though some have both.For those...

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Rules of the Game for Your Industry

Rules of the Game for Your Industry

Recent events and crises in world financial markets have highlighted the inter-dependency of the various financial services industries that together make up the global financial marketplace. Regulation has historically been the responsibility of...

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Ten Reasons to Use Structural Steel

Ten Reasons to Use Structural Steel

Why use Structural Steel? Here are the top TEN Reasons:Cost-effective - Compared to other framing materials, structural steel brings greater value to a project in terms of initial cost as well as reduces costs in other areas, such as foundations,...

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Influence of Globalization on Urban Landscape

Influence of Globalization on Urban Landscape

What Is Sustainable Urban Development? As you can find on Wikipedia: “Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural...

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Red Flags – Beware of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Red Flags – Beware of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Criminal activity is undertaken by organized groups to generate revenue or provide a benefit to those undertaking the activity.  Laundering is the process of disguising the illegal origins of criminal property and disguising the ownership of...

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Six Powerful Tips for Career Advancement

Six Powerful Tips for Career Advancement

If you’re interested in finding out how to improve your professional development and get promoted quickly, I encourage you to continue reading this article. Here are my top six professional development tips.1. Never stop learning new skills.A...

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Exploiting Big Data for the Automated Abnormality Detection of Complex Manufacturing Plant

Exploiting Big Data for the Automated Abnormality Detection of Complex Manufacturing Plant

Recent years have seen a huge growth in the complexity of manufacturing plant, and of the measurement and control systems that it uses. These developments have been spurred‐on by worldwide common goals to increase plant reliability, to improve...

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The Power of NLP

The Power of NLP

Back in the mid-1990s I was working as a training manager for a large pharmaceutical company desperately, trying to build programmes that would offer our sales representative that “edge” when they were in front of the customers. How could we get...

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Keys to Successful Business Alliances

Keys to Successful Business Alliances

Periodically, the popular business press reports on very successful high-profile strategic partnerships and joint ventures – or a large consortium that was a ‘win-win’ for everyone involved.  The appeal of such business alliances comes from...

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How to measure the business benefits of the training?

How to measure the business benefits of the training?

Today this 3rd blog of the Training Analyst, talks about measuring the business benefits of the training we are being commissioned by our stakeholders to provide. Previous blogs on this topic have discussed the need for a mindset shift by training...

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The World of HR and IT – Change is here!

The World of HR and IT – Change is here!

The world of HR and employment is about to change beyond recognition. Massive advances this year in the area of Artificial Intelligence and in particular the area known as deep learning have set the world on a course for massive employment...

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Genetic Algorithms

Genetic Algorithms

Charles Darwin famously said that it is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but it is the one that is most responsive to change. This concept lies at the heart of his theory of evolution and provides an insight...

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Do you have the hearts and minds of the people who work for you?

Do you have the hearts and minds of the people who work for you?

We all have heard the expression “our people are the main asset of the organization” and yet not too many organization implement what they say. When companies are struggling to be competitive and revenues and profits are down the first thing the...

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A Practitioners Guide to Strategic Thinking

A Practitioners Guide to Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning brings together challenging concepts. Firstly do ‘thinkers’ know what the future holds for our organisation? The question then is why do we invest huge amounts of time and money in trying to ‘think’...

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Handling emotional stress, the right way

Handling emotional stress, the right way

John had an unhappy childhood because of his father’s addiction to alcohol and gambling. His father often beat his wife in front of the children.John grew up hating his father. He struggled through his studies and eventually qualified as an...

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