In this role, HR executives need to use their knowledge to help the organization set its strategic direction and develop its business plans in ways that are consistent with a talent decision science.
Dell has continued to struggle valiantly to shift its emphasis in a similar direction and reduce its dependency on high-volume, low-margin PC clients.
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And it is a work in progress, which must constantly debate its direction, its speed and its geometry, and which must soon change its rules to accommodate the applicants at its door.
Two announcements made during the conference gave a sense of the direction AMD and its partners intend to go.
ISRAEL'S CONFUSION over Egypt's strategic direction and interests echoes its only recently abated confusion over Turkey's strategic direction in the aftermath of the Islamist AKP Party's rise to power in 2002.
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It was now time for the SNP to take a different direction and return to its core message of independence, he added.
Like the paper-clip, the airframe and its alloy skin are stressed first in one direction as the cabin is pressurised while climbing to its cruising altitude, and then in the opposite direction when depressurised during descent for landing.
He could read how far he was from shore, and its direction, by the feel of the swell against the hull.
As the offending noise continued in a loop, Mr. Gilbert turned in its direction and pointedly asked that the phone be turned off.
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Many companies are still holding large amounts of cash, waiting pragmatically to see if the government will alter its direction and begin to remedy their fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Despite the latest outbreak of it, a recent survey found that nearly three-quarters of residents think the city is moving in the right direction and are optimistic about its prospects.
If you are building a community or searching for one as you build a product or web service, it is hard to ignore Google and its core social moves and direction.
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Each pulls in its own direction, and finding the right balance between them is what gives the work its unique value.
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Puny humans can quickly deduce the direction of a sound and assess its significance, while also ignoring unimportant background noise.
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"The Army is seeking to modernise and define its direction in the future, " said Col Law - although he admitted this was a challenging task.
Many Yahoo shareholders and some Wall Street analysts have been advocating such a move to stop the bleeding at Yahoo and reverse the direction of its declining stock.
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In the wake of Wednesday's Budget - where growth forecasts were again slashed - Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow chancellor Ed Balls reiterated their call for the government to change direction, saying its measures were blunting growth and stalling efforts to cut borrowing.
At the same time, a huge wave of forced migration went in the other direction: Muslims from the city and its environs were being shipped away to Turkey, under a Greek-Turkish (or more precisely Christian-Muslim) exchange which made both countries ethnically much more homogeneous.
Following the end of World War II, President Truman issued an Executive Order to standardize the Presidential Seal, and the Coat of Arms was modified so that the eagle faces to its right, the direction of honor, and also toward the olive branch, a symbol of peace, rather than toward the arrows which represent war.
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But as the U.S. economy sputters and companies transfer their IT needs from the desktop to virtualized data centers and to the Web, one computer giant is moving its enterprise products in a new direction: slimmer and cheaper.
For the Labour Party, the bill is a chance to define its values and future direction.
The 17.3-inch long dragonfly drone can flutter through the air in any direction, and even hover, just like its biological inspiration.
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The Church is at the brink of its own transition at the top that could have an enormous impact on its future vitality and direction.
Though the Lib Dems increased their seats in the general election last May, the party had expected to do better and was left divided and uncertain about its future direction.
Yet the current production by his Atlantic Theatre Company, with its quiet, deliberate direction and understated performances, only heightens the bitter themes for which Mr Mamet's distinctive, biting dialogue was meant.
And if there is an oddity about this potential debacle, it is that the Department of Health and local authorities did not look more closely at the shaky structure of the private care-home industry before facilitating its explosive and dangerous growth by channelling hundreds of millions of pounds in its direction.
The only things it is committed to are "fair, open and accountable governance", and that its elected representatives vote according to their constituents and not at the direction of a political party.
In the life of all free nations, there come moments that decide the direction of a country and reveal the character of its people.
It ruled that St Margaret's failed the charity test and issued a direction for it to amend its procedures, or risk losing its charitable status.
It seems to indicate that Hummel has emerged as a leader with ability to take the pilot group in a direction that benefits all of its members, and that McKee is able to make a deal when he needs to.
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