The two companies' goals and core competencies in electric mobility are perfectly matched.
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In particular, UNESCO advocated for a paradigm shift through going beyond broad frameworks that define competencies in knowledge, skills, attitudes and attributes.
Over the last few decades, IT professionals honed their skills assembling pieces and parts, building competencies in the complex art of component procurement and custom integration.
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The trend is driven by the fact that many SMBs and enterprises do not have core competencies in security and may be able to achieve more cost-effective and robust security through third-party support.
Badge proponents hope that, as employers emphasize more precise competencies in their hiring calculus, human and machine scanners will deemphasize generic diplomas in favor of the rarefied skills an employer actually seeks.
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The programme aims to help Moroccan citizens more effectively engage with media and the Internet and to develop critical competencies in using information by placing Media and Information Literacy in the formal national school curricula.
In concluding, the Director-General welcomed the proposal to explore avenues of cooperation in order to develop and disseminate knowledge on much needed intercultural competencies in particular in areas such as education and the media so as to create new opportunities to address conflict prevention and promote enhanced collaboration amongst diverse communities and respect for differences through dialogue.
"Most people in manufacturing don't realize that, to a certain degree, they already have the competencies they'll need in service jobs, " says Torben Wellejus, a consultant who helps oversee the school that Lego set up.
For example, the literacy levels of people aged 52-60 when tested in 1995 are used to estimate the competencies of 17-25-year-olds in 1960, and hence the human-capital investment that had just been made in the course of that cohort's education.
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Both agree that successful CSR should be rooted in the core competencies of the company.
These legacy competencies are simply not relevant in a world of virtualized business applications, ubiquitous personal devices and infrastructure-as-a-service.
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To compete successfully despite frequent and sudden change, firms have to foster the competencies that promote continuous innovation in both offerings and operations.
Only after a diligent, balanced analysis of new opportunities and core competencies should a company attempt growth in new areas.
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On multilingualism, Ydo stressed the need to balance mother tongue with international languages because competencies are better acquired by learners in their own indigenous languages.
We welcomed the strong interest of the United States in supporting the implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC), and highlighted the unique competencies of the United States Government and American business in support of the implementation of the MPAC in the areas of transportation, energy, and information technology connectivity.
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Many companies will maintain their competitiveness by acquiring small, entrepreneurial firms in new markets where building competencies themselves would simply take too long.
Although I suspect that the Idaho Digital Learning Academy, for example, might hire the majority of its teachers only if they possessed these competencies, it might also find that in certain circumstances, to get the best results for students it makes sense to have teachers who possess other competencies and not the 10 that Idaho has required.
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Therefore, Cisco has been pursuing revenue growth in areas beyond its traditional core competencies.
As resumes become less about education brands and more about certified competencies, the hold that conventional degrees have in the hiring process will loosen.
Instead of individual subjects, the curriculum focuses on four main areas (communication, knowledge, citizenship and employment) in order to develop four key competencies, 22 skills and 180 items for evaluation.
The 1990s saw a step in this direction, with the development of a new form of testing that assesses the extent to which young people and adults in different countries acquired certain key competencies required for work and everyday life.
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It has become increasingly fashionable in business to focus on your core competencies rather than diversify your efforts.
The Rumsfeld paradigm demands a more rational division of labor in which each service focuses on core competencies, providing those capabilities as needed to the joint force.
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In addition, few legacy ecosystems and competencies mean entrepreneurs and organizations must develop new clusters to create markets and pool resources to gather strength enough to build something of value.
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The result might be less well-rounded and creative problem-solvers rooted in the perennial questions of world civilization, but also less time and energy spent interviewing, and trying out, applicants who, in practice, do not have the competencies needed.
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Retaining and growing existing client relationships remained in second place, while focusing on core competencies has become even more important, edging out innovation.
And it has a growing role in commercial markets such as transportation leveraging its technical competencies.
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It may be easier to find out real competencies of potential employees when they are acting naturally rather than in interviews with young and nervous applicants in suffocating offices.
This caused many enterprise executives to conclude that IT was not required to be one of their core business competencies and either threw their data center management staff, or in many cases their entire data centers, overboard.
What we need is for them to work together on solutions, utilizing their core competencies, and not trying to to over ride each other in a mad scramble for the pot of gold which is healthcare expenditure.
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