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Capturing Cultural Value
The value of culture cannot be expressed only with statistics. Audience numbers give us a poor picture of how culture enriches us.
John Holden,
Demos, December 2004
Dreaming With BRICs: The Path to 2050
Over the next 50 years, Brazil, Russia, India and China—the BRICs economies—could become a much larger force in the world economy.
Dominic Wilson and Roopa Purushothaman, Goldman Sachs, 1 October 2003
About time for change
The smartest and most forward-looking organisations will see that by putting work-life balance at the heart of their cultures and their strategic plans they will not only be satisfying employees and creating more equitable workplaces, but increasing their productivity and responding competitively to significant changes, such as our growing 24/7 lifestyle.
Alexandra Jones, The Work Foundation, 1 June 2003
Big Data: big danger?
Should we place limits on data collection to protect individual liberties? Even in areas where data is put to benign use, could over-reliance on algorithms impede the process of human judgement? Is it time to recognise the limitations of Big Data and put the stats in their place?
Battle of Ideas,
WORLDbytes
Manufacturing: the great comeback?
Can Britain re-engineer its economy towards production for export again? Could new technologies like 3D printing move from the level of the hobbyist to usher in a new industrial revolution?
Battle of Ideas,
WORLDbytes
Birmingham’s Big City Plan
By 2031 Birmingham will be renowned as an enterprising, innovative and green city that has undergone transformational change growing its economy and strengthening its position on the international stage.
Birmingham City Council
Innovation Now
Innovation now showcases a diverse range of UK companies at the forefront of innovation. These companies, both large and small, have one thing in common – they have engineering at the core of their business. Their engineers have developed world-class, leading-edge products and services that are sold around the world and demonstrate that the UK is home to world-class manufacturing and engineering.
Royal Academy of Engineering
wilmott.com FORUMS
Wilmott is the leading resource for the Quantitative Finance community; presenting the very latest thinking in derivatives, risk modeling and quantitative techniques, and bringing together both academics and practitioners to further develop these ideas, share information, and critique theory through practice. Discussion occurs through a very active online forum.
wilmott.com
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This book examines the enormous rise of self-regulation in the business world
Given the usual depiction of capitalism as an all-devouring monster, it comes as something of a shock that it might be thought of more as the lily-livered lion in The Wizard of Oz.