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Big Data Expected To Boost UK Economy By 2017
Technology with Jason Slater 18 May 2012 | 12:09 am
Big data is expected to add £216 billion to the UK economy, largely through gains in business efficiency, whilst creating almost 60,000 new jobs, through opportunities for small business, between now and 2017 according to a study by Cebr, the Centre for Economics and Business Research. The report “Data equity – unlocking the value of Big Data” looks at the six mechanisms for identifying the economic value of data: customer and supply chain intelligence, performance, quality and risk management, and fraud detection. The opportunities are not from the data itself but rather from the insights derived from the data and[…]
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Ways to spend your tax return [Infographic]
Money Infographics 17 May 2012 | 8:32 pm
How do you spend the tax refunded to you by the government? Do you invest it for long term so that you could have a world trip when it matures? Follow the illustrative infographic, that lets you know about amazing returns you could get if you properly invest your tax refund. This infographic is published by Future Advisor and designed by InfoGraphic Design Team. Created by Infographic Design Team
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Juicy tech facts and figures
Abi Signorelli Ltd 17 May 2012 | 7:40 pm
I just love these quarterly presentations posted up on slideshare by Dan Calladine. If you want to keep track of the latest stats, facts and figures, I highly recommend following him. Here’s his latest presentation… Next Generation Media Quarterly April 2012 View more presentations from Dan Calladine And here are some of my particular favourites… BMI’s Pinterest Lottery (slide 22) – where BMI have set up several Pinterest boards, each for a different city…”the first ever game of chance played out across Pinterest!” Users who re-pin the pics are entered into a lottery to win free flights. More info from[…]
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Sweet Tweets
Stop Doing Dumb Things to Customers » Blog 17 May 2012 | 3:05 pm
I participated in the fourth ConnectingHR Unconference yesterday. It was great, useful and fun. There’s a super write up about The Buzz in the Room by Alison Chisnell. I’m sure lots more blogs and other content will emerge very soon, for now I’d like to share just a few tweets that resonated with me: @charlie_elise: Negative capability – being able to cope with uncertainty. >>When you relax into this, it is great fun. @workessence: If you can’t measure it, its probably interesting. >>Yep! Worth a look at least. Respect me, not my authority! >>Eric Cartman might not agree Trust. Role[…]
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59 NOT OUT! – Bus pass next year?
Charon QC 17 May 2012 | 2:45 pm
Oh dear… the b*ggers have changed the bus pass age…. outrageous! HT @rajm
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Getting Balance Between In The Business And On The Business
Ant Hodges 17 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
As a solopreneur, when I started my business, I was very much focussed on getting the business started, getting clients and servicing those clients as best as I could. Developing a team helped me to serve more clients as I was getting other people to do some of the work – both paid members of staff and outside contractors. But the one thing that I struggled with, for some time, was finding the time to spend on the strategy and shaping of the business rather than just working on client projects and marketing the business all the time. It’s important[…]
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The wrap-up at #chru4 – sung by Tim Casswell
itsdevelopmental.com 17 May 2012 | 1:14 pm
Tim Casswell and his team spent the day drawing what they heard at the fourth connectingHR unconference, held at The Spring in Vauxhall, London. At the end of the unconference provided his review of the day’s proceedings . . .
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The Apprentice, Episode 9: Old Wine in New Bottles
Don't Compromise! 17 May 2012 | 1:01 pm
Even the continuity girl was ready with the puns this week, and the programme hadn’t even started. The remaining up and coming geniuses of British Enterprise were going to raise awareness of British wine, so out came the phrases – corker of an episode, bursting bubbles, fizzing. For pity’s sake people, I’m missing Lewis for this, and that has moments of genuine suspense. And ad breaks. Still, let’s see what sells, eh? The market’s never wrong: tamagotchi, Justin Bieber, Greece … We start in the Champagne Bar at St Pancras at 6.30am. On the way there in the cab, Ricky[…]
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New Opportunities, Old Workforce: How the Silver Tsunami is Turning the Tide of Retail Hiring
The Innovate CV Blog 17 May 2012 | 10:58 am
According to a 2010 survey from the National Retail Federation, more than 14 percent of the total retail workforce in the U.S. comprised workers aged 55 or older, and the Urban Institute found that retailers employed the most workers aged 65 and older out of any employment sector in the nation. Bringing older workers to the retail industry isn’t a new phenomenon. Back in 2004, Home Depot set the standard by teaming up with the AARP to recruit older workers for its stores. Under the partnership, the AARP trained its members—all aged 50 or older—in areas such as plumbing, landscaping, kitchen and bath, then[…]
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"The marketing industry needs more polymaths (dictionary definition = ‘a person of wide-ranging..."
Digital Diva 17 May 2012 | 10:44 am
“The marketing industry needs more polymaths (dictionary definition = ‘a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning’) ‘natural integrators’, or to put it another way, personalities who have the ability to talk across strategy, planning, buying, technology, data and measurement. These ‘polymaths’ tend to have a healthier balance between left and right brain. They come up with big ideas but also make sure that those ideas are grounded, measurable and will deliver a return. They coach and nudge others towards great thinking. These people are the top marketers of the future. Rather than putting out endless job specs for ‘data scientists’[…]
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