http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Mark+Vickers Business Mark Vickers Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=237007&ca=Business Among the best-kept secrets at the Human Resource Institute are our Practitioner Consensus Surveys. HRI conducts these short surveys on an almost weekly basis, usually at the request of member firms. The objective of the surveys is to quickly gather and compile information on workforce management pr... Business Management Mark Vickers Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=219138&ca=Business+Management Everyone knows that global innovation is increasing at a blistering pace, right? Well, maybe it’s not, suggests Jonathan Huebner, author of the paper “A Possible Declining Trend for Worldwide Innovation.” He argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global innovation is actually on the skids. If... Education Mark Vickers Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=218677&ca=Education Okay, forecast is too strong a word. Prediction is even more precarious. So let’s speak the truth and just call them educated guesses. Here’s some of the best current thinking about what’s likely to happen in 2008 in regard to workforce issues: Productivity ho! If the Institute for Corporate Product... Business Mark Vickers Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=218682&ca=Business No, it’s not just your imagination. The pace of change really is speeding up in organizations all over the world. At least, that’s the opinion of 82% of respondents to the 2006 Agility and Resiliency Survey, a global poll of organizations commissioned by the American Management Association (AMA) and...