Via The Stack : Dave Weisbeck, Chief Strategy Officer at workforce intelligence company Visier, discusses how businesses can best gain insight and apply data analytics to enable better workforce decision-making and planning… Today’s HR landscape is more complex than ever before: globalization is taking the competition for talent worldwide, four generations …

Via Next Reality : The world of investment and finance can be labyrinthine in its very nature — and even more complicated in regards to augmented and mixed reality. While these new emergent technologies are teeming with explosive levels of unrealized potential, there’s still a big layer of uncertainty in terms …

Via INC : Be bold, not bland. Let’s be brutally honest for a moment, shall we? If you are seeking the life of an entrepreneur – the ups and downs, the incredible amount of sweat equity, and the personal sacrifices that are all hallmarks of creating a business – and you …

Via PayBefore : Fintech startups around the world are designing a digital future by facilitating commerce that is centered on consumer choice and experience. In fact, in 2016 more than 1,500 of them applied to Mastercard Start Path Global—our effort to support later-stage startups that are reshaping the future of finance …

Via Director of Finance : Some may see AI as a threat to the accountancy profession, but Lee Murphy argues it as a real opportunity both for individuals and businesses. Artificial intelligence has already begun to impact on our everyday lives and the technological revolution we are witnessing is set to …

Via Business Insider : Netflix reported its latest quarterly earnings on Thursday, which were mixed. The streaming giant’s stock has taken a slight tumble after reporting lower-than-anticipated subscriber growth across the board, though the company says it expects to rebound big next quarter. One bright spot for this quarter, however, is …

Via Deccan Herald : Few months ago, leading IT consulting and technology firm Accenture decided to do away with Bell Curve model of employee evaluation, which it had been following since the beginning of its operations. Recently, there was an announcement by Infosys that it would no longer be using Bell …

Via Harvard Magazine : HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL has a venerable tradition, anchored in its general-management unit, of drawing on the humanities to illuminate problems in capitalism (see “Questions of Character,” July-August 2006). Now Mizuho Financial Group professor of finance Mihir A. Desai, an expert on taxation, aims to “humanize finance” through …

Via Entrepreneur : With 20-something co-founders becoming billionaires, you’ll likely surmise that entrepreneurship is only a young person’s game. But you’ll be wrong. March was a monumental month in the business world. A pair of 20-something co-founders became billionaires during Snap Inc.’s IPO: Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are now …

Via Small Business Trends : The topic seems to strike fear in the hearts of employees in every industry: artificially intelligent, robots, automated systems and the threat of them taking over the world. But not every industry is dreading their presence. With the annual tax season in full swing, accountants couldn’t …

Via The Nation Multimedia : KUALA LUMPUR – According to the IFSB’s Islamic Financial Services Industry Stability Report 2016, Malaysia was the largest corporate Islamic bond issuer in the world in 2015, accounting for nearly 33.7 per cent or US$5.98 billion (26.5 billion ringgit) that year. The Islamic Financial Services Board …

Via The Irish Times : Group’s banking arm has been put up for sale amid concerns over its balance sheet. The Co-operative Group in Britain has fallen into the red for the first time since 2013 after writing off the value of its stake in the troubled Co-operative Bank. The mutual …