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The century of ‘big data’ will be the century of unprecedented surveillance. The dream of tyrants down through history has been the total monitoring, control and management of the public, with the ability to predict the be |
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It is inspirational to hear words that rhyme where a line and a stanza impart a meaning using the song-like attributes of the articulated statements. The command of a poem makes one remember. It helped some University students recall difficult formulas in integral and differential calculus. It is real and it does work. I’ve used it a lot during my college years singing “The Integral of u” to the tune of “The Wonder of u.”
I have always wanted to write about risk-based management principles in a p
Enrique Suarez Presenting:
Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective
Harvard Business School Note
Agenda
• Historical Background
• Academic Underpinnings
• The Rise of Strategy Consultants
• BCG and the Experience Curve
• From the Experience Curve to Portfolio Analysis
• Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and Portfolio Analysis
• Emerging Problems
• Unbundling Industry Attractiveness
• Unbundling Competitive Position
• Competitive Cost Analysis
• Customer Analysis
• Business System Redesign
• The
Wow cool! A device that lets you know, via Internet, when your milk is beginning to sour! And a connected thermostat—turning the heat up remotely an hour before you get home to save money…and “smart” fitness monitors, baby monitors, watches…
Slow down. Don’t buy a single smart device until you ask yourself these 10 questions. And frankly, there’s a lot of effort in some of these questions. But, security isn’t always easy. Check it out.
- Was the company ever hacked? Google this to find out.
- If so, di
Greta Roberts, CEO, Talent Analytics, Corp.
It’s exciting to watch advances in predictive and prescriptive employee solutions. Workday recently announced the release of an application enabling employers to “identify which employee is likely to quit, and what options need to be considered to retain that person”.
Workday is not the first to announce Flight Risk Scores of current employees. Many top Talent Management solutions have made similar announcements in the past several months. It’s a step
You just learned you have a new credit card account by checking your credit or because a bill collector called you. Problem is that you don’t remember ever applying for it. You must find out what’s behind this new account and how it got there.
- Call the corresponding phone number listed with the account seen on your credit report.
- Begin the process for disputing the entire account.
- Get the name (and employee ID number) of every person you speak to and a transaction or reference number for every phon
When it comes to tossing into the rubbish your old computer device, out of sight means out of mind, right? Well yeah, maybe to the user. But let’s tack something onto that well-known mantra: Out of site, out of mind, into criminal’s hands.
Your discarded smartphone, laptop or what-have-you contains a goldmine for thieves—because the device’s memory card and hard drive contain valuable information about you.
Maybe your Social Security number is in there somewhere, along with credit card information
Many companies share some problematic habits when it comes to compliance. The worst of them is treating compliance like a checklist. In other words, thinking, “If we meet these specific compliance requirements, our company should run efficiently and securely.” While this is a simplified outlook, the point remains the same. Being compliant guarantees neither efficiency nor security, but failure to meet requirements can have long-lasting negative effects.
At LogicManager, we view compliance as the
My Priorities if I were the New President of the United States of America: Peace (Self-Knowledge), Dignity and Prosperity
By:
Enrique R. Suarez
International Educator, Management Consultant, Political Scientist & Professor
Master of Education & International Development
Harvard University
http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
“All of the great leaders have had one character
Intuition can be a powerful decision tool, however it is so often misused. If you are not aware of the times when you could or should follow your intuition then you are most likely taking a big chance on the outcome – then you will certainly need guts.
The times you should use intuition are when you are making a decision under familiar circumstances and when there is little time to stop and think the issue through. A typical example is for a fire fighter entering a burning building. Studies hav
Ireland: the Tax Haven that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Source:
Cillian Doyle
CounterPunch 12 January 2016
We’re not a tax haven, we have never been involved in any kind of tax malpractice
– Michael Noonan, Irish Minister for Finance 5th October 2015
You can read the entire article in the following link:
A Loophole Allows Banks – But Not Other Companies – to Create Money Out of Thin Air
One of the Main Causes of Our Economic Problems
Source:
Washington's Blog
January 15, 2016
The central banks of the United States, England, and German – as well as 2 Nobel-prize winning economists – have all shown that banks create money out of thin air … even if they have no deposits on hand.
The failure of most governments and most mainstream economists to understand this fact – they instead believe the myth that pe
Black Friday: Collapse of Financial Markets, Poverty and Unemployment
Source:
Stephen Lendman
Global Research, January 17, 2016
Black Friday may be signaling big trouble ahead. What can’t go on forever won’t and never will. Eventually day of reckoning time arrives. Whether now is the moment of truth remains to be seen.
Paul Craig Roberts calls the US economy “a house of cards.” Phony government data created “the illusion of recovery.”
Monied interests never had it better for years, profiting hugely f
Research Proposal Recommendations
Where to Position Brazil to Maximize the Synergies with the other BRICS to Bring Peace, Dignity and Prosperity to the Region and to the World
Theme:
Similarities and Differences Between the Two Most Important Analysis about the BRICS written by Pepe Escobar and Professor Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research, Canada
By:
Enrique Suarez
Master of Education & International Development
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta
USA
You can
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Will Governments Agree to Pass Massive Powers to Transnational Capital?
Source:
Our Birmingham
16 January 2016
Roger Godsiff MP for Birmingham Hall Green, has tabled a Parliamentary Question asking whether government will reconsider support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal, following the announcement that a tar sands company is suing the American Government under existing trade law after it decided against a
How Big Oil Conquered The World
A Must-See Video Documentary
Source:
James Corbett
Global Research, January 17, 2016
Corbett Report 28 December 2015
From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.
And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the "oiligarchy" they created is on the verge
The role of today’s risk managers is clear: to close the gap between strategic-level initiatives and the operational risks faced at the activity level.
To do this, many organizations are adopting risk-based GRC programs – both at the request of senior management and to meet the expectations of regulators. A large number of these programs rely on spreadsheets and shared drives to manage information collected across departments and levels. But today’s GRC software solutions are proven to unlock val
“You can buy things with your phone!” No kidding! But imagine what the response would have been had you made this statement in 1984: “Off your meds, eh?”
Purchasing via the smartphone may very well eclipse the popularity of shopping via laptop. And cyber thieves know this. They’re counting on you to slip up.
- Never click a link inside an e-mail, even if the subject line is a warning or alert to a fabulous sale. Cyber crooks know that the small screens on mobiles can easily hide tell-tale signs of s
Leadership is an important and relevant skill to develop for anyone--across all industries, across all corporate functions, both in and out of the office. Michele Sancricca is uniquely qualified on this topic, having spent several decades as a leader in both the military and corporate worlds.
I am privileged to have Michele as a personal friend. Recently, I took the opportunity to pick his brain on the topic of Leadership. Leadership topics discussed include leadership tools, leadership mist
No company is immune from hackers—even a toy company. Hong Kong based VTech got hit by a hacker recently. This company makes techy educational toys for kids, and its database got breached.
Customers go to the Learning Lodge store and download content to their children’s VTech devices. The devices for downloading to are a tablet, watch and action camera.
But recently, this gateway store was attacked.
Some customers’ private information—now in the hands of the hacker—may put them at risk for being vi
