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  • Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation

    Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation

    19 October 2020|Business Continuity-Resilience, Business Management, Good Governance, Performance management, Sustainability COVID-19 Exit Surgery & Strategy: Agile Workplace Advantages and Disadvantages (Free Zoom event) | Thu, October 22, 2020 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BST About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar,…

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  • Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice

    “There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…

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  • How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself

    Something a bit more enjoyable for Sunday: two visualisations reminding us that how we represent information is as important as the information itself. This point is often overlooked. Many visualisations focus on either the Wow! effect (with a sad “So what…”  question following as the reader can’t make any sense of the visualisation), or hold…

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  • ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU

    Sharing a perspective and a few facts. Much has been said since the ECJ struck down the #PrivacyShield for US-EU data transfer. Earlier this week, James Sullivan, Jr. from the U.S. Department of Commerce shared a White Paper outlining the information that can help both US and EU organizations in this context. Interesting that the ECJ focuses on aspects related to…

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  • Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot

    Technology is about serving human beings. Interestingly, some plan otherwise. Illustration with customers’ contempt by pushing costly, useless, dystopian bot assistants.

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  • DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making

    Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…

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  • Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

    Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

    Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:

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