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Managing Change: How Companies Can Help Employees Embrace New Ideas

When ConnectOne Bancorp was looking to upgrade its customer interaction systems, its chief executive faced an issue that can permeate any company: resistance to change among employees.

Here's What Successful Supply Chains Have in Common

Customer expectations are continuously evolving, and every business wants to innovate and differentiate itself to grow revenue without compromising margins. A customer experience-driven supply chain is an absolute necessity toward achieving these seemingly divergent goals.

‘The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes Into the Workplace

There is no shortage of predictions about how artificial intelligence is going to reshape where, how and if people work in the future.

Six Barriers to Becoming a Digital Business

As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, they are finding that digital business is not as simple as buying the latest technology — it requires significant changes to culture and systems. A recent Gartner, Inc. survey found that only a small number of organizations have been able to successfully scale their digital initiatives beyond the experimentation and piloting stages.

Podcast | How New Grads Can Land a Career in Supply Chain

Even in a strong economy, finding the perfect job can be a challenge. That’s especially true in the highly specialized world of supply-chain management.

A Third of Organizations Don’t Have a Cybersecurity Expert, Gartner Finds

Despite 95 percent of CIOs expecting cyberthreats to increase over the next three years, only 65 percent of their organizations currently have a cybersecurity expert, according to a survey from Gartner, Inc.

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Podcast | Women in Finance: A Personal Journey

Success in the modern-day world of financial leadership is about more than a game of numbers.

Women in Supply Chain: The Mary Barra Example

General Motors recently named a new chief financial officer — 39-year-old Harvard MBA Dhivya Suryadevara takes over starting in September. She joins a leadership team comprising five women among 11 directors, plus the heads of manufacturing, Alicia Boler Davis, and human resources, Kimberly Brycz. The boss is Mary Barra, CEO since 2014.

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Global Employee Confidence in Business Conditions Hits Five-Year High, Report Says

As the nation’s economy continues its upward trajectory, almost 46 percent of U.S. employees have a high intent to stay in their current positions, well above the international average of 32.4 percent, according to Gartner, Inc.

Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

All the well-intentioned statements of corporate responsibility mean nothing if you can’t implant the message on the factory floor.

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Seven Ways Businesses Can Protect Their Data

Data has become increasingly valuable to businesses across the world. Following major data breaches from Equifax, Target, Home Depot and Yahoo, along with the recent scandal surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, businesses are in search of better ways to keep sensitive information secure.

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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes

For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the country’s most vexing economic problems: slow productivity growth.

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