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As a member of Generation X, I grew up in the workplace with a simple rule: if your boss asked you to do something, you said “yes” and got on with it. That was the culture of the time. We didn’t often stop to ask whether the process made sense,Continue Reading

Frasers Group has warned Unite the Union against taking “reckless and irresponsible” industrial action after the trade body threatened strikes across the retailer’s warehouses in a dispute over pay. In a strongly worded letter to Unite general secretary Sharon Graham, Sir Jonathan Thompson, chairman of Frasers Group, said he wasContinue Reading

Saudi Arabia has taken a decisive step toward becoming the world’s gaming hub after its $55 billion (£41 billion) acquisition of US game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) — the largest leveraged buyout in corporate history. The deal, orchestrated through the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the kingdom’s $700 billion sovereign wealthContinue Reading

One of the most difficult security threats to handle is insider threats. Such threats are usually malicious and may lead to serious security problems. Sometimes, they occur due to user or employee negligence, and they may also be unintentional. These threats are posed by authorized users, as opposed to externalContinue Reading

The investor-turned-innovator makes a powerful case: to heal the patient experience, we must first heal the broken financial and operational systems that govern it. There is a moment of universal pain in healthcare that occurs far from the operating room: the moment a patient, already vulnerable, is confronted with aContinue Reading