Overall, being a strategic contributor demands that high levels of business knowledge and skill be present in HR.
And who has the skill sets and business knowledge to run a business?
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The notion that you have just business knowledge and don't need to interact across those boundaries is going to change.
Just to give a few examples from my own direct business knowledge: gold plating on computer chips and connectors used to be about 200 nanometres.
To get the most business value from the exploding quantities of data requires skills from all of these groups, combining business knowledge, analytical skills, and computer science.
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Staffing is a problem because there is a fixed number of people industry-wide who have the quantitative and business knowledge to be able to work in these areas.
At the other end, we need vast amounts of storage to capture the data, as well as powerful analysis capabilities for turning that data into business knowledge and action.
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Therefore, auditors should have a wide range of business knowledge, demonstrated through years of audit and industry-specific experience, educational background, professional certifications, training programs, committee participation, professional associations, and job rotational assignments.
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He is adamant, however, that scale does matter in some areas and even in the fashionable business of knowledge.
Hiring and firing conditions are often not explained to workers by their companies, said Rajeev Karwal, founding-director of Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions.
They had only owned their ranch for a few years, and Ms. Brown was left with little money, no knowledge of business, and minimal knowledge of ranching.
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Whereas traditional product development would involve making product decisions using business intuition and knowledge, Zynga turned decision-making on its head by hypothesis-driven product testing, quick analysis and agile roll-out based on how customers behaved.
As an executive, you have perfect knowledge of what your business is doing, and you have increasingly perfect knowledge of who your customer is and what drove them in your virtual front door.
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With Mr. Buffett as a business mentor, the kids learn to apply basic knowledge from the world of business to everyday adventures, and learn through hard work that in the end, the best investment they can make is in themselves.
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Successful investors say that Africa can be no harder than other emerging markets, but that doing business requires good local knowledge.
Were privatisation to sweep through education as it has through health care, business analysts reckon that Knowledge Universe might well become the dominant brand.
Disillusioned with what he had seen of the traditional top-down, government-funded social services model, and now equipped with some knowledge of business, Lance decided on a capitalistic approach.
And it is more demoralising still when, as in the case of Mr Macdonald, the bypassing of Parliament is justified, entirely reasonably, by his special knowledge of business.
For every failed business idea, our knowledge base expands.
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Kenny Yap was away at Ohio State University in the U.S. then, but returned in a few years with a formal knowledge of business and management--and a desire to make good on the sacrifice of so many fish.
While some people might not immediately associate blue-collar occupations with higher-level formal education, some of these managers and supervisors must have extensive knowledge of business or sciences to perform the tasks of, for example, power plant operator or agricultural manager.
But something else happened that was unforeseen: a realization within the company that its maturing "brown operations, " marvelous as they were in delivering 13 million packages every business day, were not enough to compete in an industry that was transitioning into a global, knowledge-based logistics business.
So at this point, ask yourself: What specific knowledge work and business processes define your operations?
He also brings historical knowledge of our business from his recent service as a director of Motorola, Inc.
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With the industrial revolution newspapers were transformed from campaigning pamphlets or carriers of specialist knowledge to big business.
Marillyn is an exceptional leader with impeccable credentials and deep knowledge of our business, customers, shareholders and employees.
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One way to resolve the outsider-insider dilemma is to look for an outsider with inside knowledge of the business.
It took about a year in the business before I had enough knowledge to begin to ask the right questions.
They will still need to demonstrate a working knowledge of deploying business technology resources, as well as an ability to negotiate with vendors.
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On the rotational path, promising executives are posted to different functions and areas early on in their careers, gaining broad knowledge of the business.
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