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Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.  The more we play golf, the more we realize that there is a negative correlation between how hard we swung and how far we hit the ball.  In golf, rarely is much accomplished from merely swinging hard. Sheer force does create action, but this is often negated by a lack of strategy. Life in golf, we need to learn to pull back a little, focus, and work on s

A company’s cultural situation is challenging, multidimensional, and difficult to deal with. It constitutes a powerful set of emotional resources. To a degree, culture can be compared to natural forces such as winds and tides. These elements are there in the background, sometimes unnoticed, sometimes obvious. Endowed with immense power, they can waylay plans and inhibit progress.

Natural forces can’t really be tamed or fundamentally altered. But if you respect them and understand how to make the

Industries today are in a state of flux driven by volatile market forces. Although every company devises a strategy for creating long-term differentiation for goods and services, still various dynamics are emerging.

Across industries, market changes are affecting how Finance needs to operate. Finance must anticipate the implication of these various dynamics and forces evolving in the global economy.  These various forces are now pushing the corporation to align its Finance with its Strategy.  In

Since the 2008 financial crisis, private banks have been confronted with a growing flow of regulatory requirements relating to customer identification, the fight against money laundering, the fight against the financing of terrorism, prevention of corruption, compliance with tax compliance, etc. In other words, regulators require banking institutions an ever-deeper knowledge of their customers (KYC). 

These compliance requirements impose a higher and higher cost on banks, not only because of the

Leadership is the relationship between people who aspire to lead and those who choose whether or not to follow. Leadership hinges on the leader’s credibility which is difficult to build and easy to lose.

CEOs of BP, Wells Fargo and Volkswagen have learned that tough lesson through high-profile scandals that can swiftly damage their reputations. But what is at the heart of credibility?

A Purview of the Leadership Study

Over 3 years, Leadership Studies have been done to identify factors that can eith

Goal Setting used to be done in a conventional way. Managers hold one-on-one meetings with their subordinates to set goals. Performances are reviewed against objectives and these are linked to promotion and bonus decisions. The same managers aspire their goals to be SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. But this conventional wisdom of goal setting rarely asks the fundamental question – does it work? The traditional approach to goals cannot ensure successful strateg

The automotive sensor market segmentation (on the basis of sensor type) is further categorized into temperature sensor, pressure sensor, position sensor, speed sensor, level sensor, inertial sensor, gas sensor, flow sensor, knock sensor, force sensor, torque sensor, and other sensors.

The temperature sensor dominated the global automotive sensor market in 2018 and is anticipated to maintain its dominance throughout the forecast period (2019-2029), due to increasing number of exhaust gas temperatu

Businesses are getting increasingly complex and so are customers’ expectations. Digital organizations are digitizing their critical Customer Journeys at scale to outperform competition. These organizations are using Digitization to create streamlined journeys, which result in more agile IT units, quick delivery of new products, and improved Customer Experiences and Engagement.

But before embarking on digitization and streamlining Customer Journeys, organizations need to transform their products,

If you are the parent of a child or teen who uses the internet, here are some stats you need to know:

Stats About Teens and the Internet

• Teens think that the internet is mostly private
• They also think that they can make the best decisions for their life online
• They believe they are safe online and that people are who they say they are
• They don’t feel at risk if “friending” perfect strangers
• They feel like since they are probably better at understanding technology, they can make better decisions than t

One of the most exciting things in general about home theatre and audio is that it always evolves. Back in the 1980s, when the home theatre was introduced, Laserdisc was the best technology available to consumers with two channels of audio. The technology is continually being moved forward into new areas these days with 4K Ultra HD content and receivers that can accommodate up to 13.2 channels with Dolby Atmos. Companies are always striving to stay on top of the existing trends and also look to

There is a pressure cooker analogy for driving business performance. That is, apply plenty of heat to the pot (which is your team) and keep the lid firmly shut. The team will push harder to reach their goals. As a safety mechanism, all pressure cookers have a relief valve and so the analogy goes, make sure you don’t overdo it and build up too much pressure. The reason is because one of two things would happen:

White Paper: 3 Keys to a Best-In-Class Internal Control Program

An effective internal control program is a key component of strong operational performance and reliable financial reporting, driving confidence in the ability of a company to achieve its objectives. But the road to sound internal control is paved with many challenges such as administrative burden, cumbersome reporting and low visibility.

Download the free White Paper: 3 Keys to a Best-In-Class Internal Control Program, that detail

There are a number of ways that you can protect yourself online, and one of the things you can do is to start using two-factor authentication.

You probably have seen two-factor authentication even if you aren’t sure what it is. For instance, if you do online banking, your bank might text a code to your phone or email when you try to change the password. This is two-factor authentication. It’s basically just an extra step that confirms that you are the account owner. This makes it more difficult f

Dear Global Risk Community Member,

The genius of Microsoft Excel for entity management is that it’s easy to use and there are free templates that exist online to get you started.

And yet, research shows that 23% of spreadsheets contain errors, companies spend an average of 18 hours trying to correct these errors and 72% of users regularly email spreadsheets with highly sensitive information, without considering the risk of breaching data regulations.

Download “Microsoft Excel & Entity Man

The global food cold chain market research provides a detailed perspective regarding the type temperature type, application its value, and its estimation, among others. The purpose of this market analysis is to examine the food cold chain industry outlook in terms of factors driving the market, trends, developments, and investment landscape, among others.

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Market Segmentation

The food cold chain market (on the basis of type) has been segmented int

For me, founding NorthRow wasn’t just about the business opportunity, but a chance to make a difference to the devastating effects that fraud and other forms of financial crime can have on individuals and companies.

Witnessing the corrosive effect of fraud on a family business was a key inspiration and I’ve embraced the opportunity to use my background in software, data and business to found a venture that now digitally transforms clients’ onboarding and monitoring processes, helps prevent fraud

Science and medicine background has helped to break through new developments in biochip technologies that also combine next-generation sequencing (NGS) with actual problems. Since biochip technologies are being used in sequence engineering, the key advantages of biochips are their scalability and performance. With the benefits of biochips, NGS has favored scientific breakthroughs and technological advances in medicine. All current NGS platforms, nevertheless, require nucleic acid preparation at

Not many technologies in the world exist for both public and private networks. After the Internet which allows internet as well as intranet, blockchain is a revolutionary technology where networks can be formed both for public and private domains. There are two types of blockchain as of 2018, private and public. The market is evenly divided across both types; however, the market is not evenly distributed across geographies.

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