... skills of their workers. According to a recent report, more than three-quarters of training was room-based, instructor-led in 1998. ... A recent survey of Fortune 100 companies found that more than 80 per cent of them were implementing some form of e-learning, or ...

... feet up during the last recession. “We were definitely more insulated from the market in those days as the free flow of information ... Now, with live CNN and BBC reports, people are definitely more concerned and are reacting accordingly. Bluntly put, the industry was ...

... from that original model,’ says McFarlane. ‘We’re much more commercial now. We used to be quite introverted, but now we have more people from other parts of the recruitment industry and we’re more aware ...

... are concise. Everything I wanted to read was here - and more. The guide aims to answer “an e-merchant’s top 10 legal ... writer’s understanding of how old contract common law and more recent goods and services law in the UK is relevant to e-commerce contracts. The laws more or less apply in cyberspace as they do “on the ground” within UK ...

... unmoved by his pleas for purchasers to manage less and lead more. Carayol threw down the gauntlet to the procurement profession in an ... of the organisation,” said Carayol. “The thing he did more than anything else was engagement with people.” The key question for ...

... found that trading relationships in the sector have become more adversarial. Compared with the results of a similar survey in 1996, 27 per cent more companies experienced an increase in adversarial relationships against ...

... reduced UK spend on benefits and the availability of more high quality data, a UK fraud consultancy has said. Such factors mean ... presence, position and fraud service offerings of one or more of the major data bureaux will undergo “a major shift”. This will ...

... new employees needed extra direction and which ones needed more autonomy, it is a lot harder to judge from a distance. This increases the risk that the onboarding process will proceed more slowly than usual, that new employees will become demotivated or perhaps ...

... the UK this week with the government re-shuffle leading to a more feminine feel in the cabinet, the Church of England voting overwhelmingly ... gender diversity targets set by the Lord Davis report to get more women on boards with 25% of cabinet positions now held by women. ...

... used for anything other than low value transactions. Far more common in business is payment by cheque. Cheques must be completed ... bank is informed before it is paid. Thus, there is a little more time available to discover errors. For some liabilities, an automated ...