Developing a Personal Brand
Research reveals that over half of the employers around the globe are less likely to interview a candidate they cannot find online. Today, a ‘personal brand’ with an online presence is indispensable – and here’s why In early December of 2021, a new brand was launched – a sustainability-driven clothing line in partnership with Singapore-based […]
Flipping Around the Attrition Problem
While a 20% attrition rate is normal, it means 80% of employees aren’t leaving. What makes them buck the trend? Managers, human resource professionals have been dealing with too much on their plate for the last two years, and sometimes it can be quite exhausting. The great resignation wave is the latest to have hit […]
Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise Culture
Employers are increasingly recognising that Artificial Intelligence lifts team morale, makes work fun and ensures the pursuit of smarter goals The benefits of artificial intelligence go well beyond improved efficiency and decision-making. AI can also improve organizational effectiveness and strengthen teams and enterprise cultures. Artificial intelligence (AI) can generate cultural as well as financial benefits […]
2022 HR Trends – Priorities and Challenges
Companies that adjust the fastest will thrive the most post-pandemic. Global HR survey stresses on building critical skills and competencies. Very recently, Gartner surveyed over 500 HR leaders across all business sectors in 60 countries to analyze the trends, priorities and expected challenges for the coming year. While the list churned out ‘building critical skills […]
COP26: Yet another carbon copy?
Although the Glasgow Summit on Climate Change held much promise, in the end it looks like hot air. And the climate suffers The much-debated 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – commonly referred to as COP26 – that had started with high hopes, was recently concluded without much to celebrate. Held at Glasgow, Scotland, it […]
Building a Blockchain: Part I: On the Handling of Digital Assets
Digital assets have radically reshaped the face of traditional accounting over the past few years. Additionally, given the recent boom in the global volume of digital assets, creating a systematic approach in the efficient storage, organisation, management and distribution of an organisation’s digital assets is unequivocally crucial. In fact, according to a July 21 report […]
Log4j – Pandemic of the Year?
IBM, Oracle, Google and Amazon may have been exposed to one of the most serious cybersecurity threats ever seen. Here’s how: In fact, Check Point Research regards this as a truly global ‘cyber pandemic’, with over 90 countries in the world already affected by the attacks. As commented in an excerpt from the report: “..the impact itself is […]
Global Data & Analytics Market: 2022
After displaying robust growth in 2021, the global data and analytics market is all set to continue its bullish run in the coming year The global data and analytics market saw its value appreciate 10.3% from US$83 billion in 2020 to US$91.6 billion in 2021, according to the latest report from Global Data, a UK-based data […]
Metacode – Regulating the Metaverses
As the virtual morphs into reality, we need expert collaboration and a global agreement to ensure that the world wide web of metaverses doesn’t turn into a dystopia The metaverse has become a common noun, the capital ‘M’ has been dropped. As it becomes one of the most discussed topics in the winter of 2021, a range of issues have cropped up […]
Understanding Digital Trade
Digital trade is a broad concept that can be a means to mitigate the economic slowdown. But barriers need to be mitigated first Of late, there have been a flurry of international activities focussed on Digital Trade. Several agreements and Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) around digital trade and economy are being drafted between nations – […]