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Language is collateral damage in the gig economy
Languages

Language is collateral damage in the gig economy

...business world – euphemistic terms such as ‘downsizing’ ‘rightsizing’ and ‘restructuring’ may not sound as ruthless as ‘cutting jobs’ but they spell trouble for employees nonetheless. Such language practices are not restricted to business. Words such as ‘collateral damage’ and ‘rendition’ have been coined or purloined to obscure far more brutal...
How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?
Money & Business

How is identity data creating headaches for large companies?

...businesses. Bhargav Mitra and Robert McCausland explain why...[Statue of a human form spraying water] Leaking identity data can cost companies Google might be in trouble for collecting the personal data of its users, but many companies have a growing incentive to rid their hands of the data that users entrust them with. This is because of growing costs of holding onto it....
Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...business, Project Ace Sports, which she started in November 2017. The company provides different sporting opportunities for children and young people to get involved in. Allana is a now a full time Diversity Lead and Sports Teacher at a prep school in South London. [Unknown title] Transcript Early Ethnic Minority barristers and the Inns of Court Dr Caroline Derry and Dr...
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...businesses are less conventional, and as a result it’s often harder to see how they find the money they need to survive. For example, there are many collaborative projects that produce free products including software, online encyclopaedias and educational resources. These often rely on volunteers contributing their time, with money being provided by advertising,...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...businesses. You're not going to have it. You have to put in money to be able to do that. The strategy should not always be pushing investors to do their training and the capacity development. Enterprise Development Centre that was set up by Jubilee Partners to train businesses. It stalled after five years when they pulled out. That should have continued. Even government...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...business and lots of transformations taking place, for example automation is reshaping industries such as auditing, as seen at Deloitte, and this changes the roles those industries require. We are now living longer than ever and retiring later, and issues of equity, diversity and inclusion are more prominent than ever. It is fair to say that what our parents’ generation...
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...business case, the contribution to the organisation’s objectives. With this contribution clearly stated then the project context is clear and governance of the project can ensure that the project is focused on the outcome rather than activities. The golden thread of delegated authority is a direct chain of accountability. Within this chain each person needs to know what...
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...money, time, research and computing power are being put into making better AI systems, but there's a sort of ‘artificiality’ at the moment to both the text that is generated by AI, and the sound that AI can generate or the images it produces. So, if you read AI-generated text, it's very fluent, it's usually grammatically correct, but it's boring! It doesn't take...