Around the world, governments are predicting serious employment challenges relating to a pending shortage of key skills. The UK Commission for Education and Skills (UKCES) contributes to policy and research on employment and in its report, Working Futures 2012-2022, predicts that by 2022, two million vacancies requiring higher level skills will arise. In another recentlyContinue reading “Skills Shortage Looming”
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How to spot the transformative technology for your business
How to spot the technologies that might radically change your business model? In his interview with The Bottom Line, Mike Lynch, founder and chief executive of technology company Autonomy, uses an example from the legal system to answer this question. This is an interview after a recording of the OU/BBC co-production The Bottom Line. LearnContinue reading “How to spot the transformative technology for your business”
Connecting the dots: institutional theory and organisational management
Guest blogger: Professor Brian Smith, Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University Business School, Adjunct Professor at SDA Bocconi in Milan. When I was a young graduate trainee, I sometimes wondered how it felt to be one of those senior guys (they were almost always men then) whose word was law and who seemed toContinue reading “Connecting the dots: institutional theory and organisational management”
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