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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

This refers to the process whereby it is clear what the targets for success are, and an individual, group or company does just enough to qualify for meeting those specific criteria. This can also be the reason why company performance begins to suffer over time, as more bureaucratic processes are introduced to manage employee performance.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

The Grid Edge includes the innovative solutions of hardware, software, and business innovation that are enabling smart infrastructure to be installed at or near the “edge” of the electric power grid. Buildings are also going through a digital revolution for managing heating, cooling lighting, and occupant movement.

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8 Innovative Baby Boomer Knowledge Management and Retention Strategies

Idea to Value

In addition, many companies are also in a state of generational flux as the median employee age at most companies is rapidly dropping and throngs of baby boomers are now eligible and potentially gearing up for retirement. Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 Census Bureau.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

All this changed however, with the popularisation of the internet, and since then there have been hundreds of different companies which have sought to profit by facilitating communication using this network. One of the first companies to offer their own chat service was Yahoo, who launched Yahoo Pager in 1998. Picture Perfect?

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The enemy is already within. The flood gates are open. Can GE recover?

Paul Hobcraft

Managing cash, balancing this out with your liabilities and obligations, knowing your market dynamics, and equally, having a good understanding of where the future growth lies, are all essential for managing any healthy business. These disciplines and skills burnish your reputation and are the bedrock of good corporate management.

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A Christmas Carole 2015 – The Ebenezer 1% and Cratchit Middle Class

Adam Hartung

Ever since Ronald Reagan rewrote the tax code, dramatically lowering marginal rates on wealthy people and slashing capital gains taxes, America’s wealthy have been amassing even greater wealth, while the middle class has gone backward and the poor have remained poor. For a great many American’s that is the situation in 2015 USA.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

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