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CFO Insights – Ripple effects: Why water is a CFO issue “Much of the world is parched. In July, just under 56 percent of the contiguous United States was experiencing drought conditions, the most extensive area in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Elsewhere drought-like conditions may be in store for India and …
“Banks have begun dusting off some of the ambitious data management projects they began in the early 2000s, then shelved when the financial crisis and recession hit. But according to SAP’s top banking executives, who met with us last week, these projects are being scaled down to handle a single problem, such as improving same-day …
Cut Off at the Pass: The Limits of Leadership in the 21st Century: “America has a leadership deficit, argues Barbara Kellerman in a new paper that examines the current state of leadership in the United States. Surveying leaderships genesis and its role as a compelling, powerful concept through history, Kellerman asserts that our current understanding …
via LLRX.com – OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-‘Hunger Games’ connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder: David H. Rothman’s current commentary on the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America highlights successful components of the project and prospective concepts that would support attaining the goal of a national digital library system.
The Problem of Data, Lori Jahnke and Andrew Asher, Spencer D. C. Keralis with an introduction by Charles Henry. August 2012. CLIR Pubublication No. 154. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of dataso much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. IBM, Bringing …
How much will that college really cost? -(“includes tuition, fees, room and board and books; excludes grants or scholarships”)
“The Happy Planet Index is a new measure of progress that focusses on what matters: sustainable well-being for all. It tells us how well nations are doing in terms of supporting their inhabitants to live good lives now, while ensuring that others can do the same in the future. In a time of uncertainty, the …
Rai, Birendra K., So, Chiu Ki and Nicholas, Aaron, A Primer on Mathematical Modelling in Economics (September 2012). Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 594-615, 2012. Available at SSRN “The Commission on Graduate Education in Economics had raised several concerns regarding the role of mathematics in graduate training in economics (Krueger, 1991; …
News release: “OCLC is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog data on the Web. This open data license provides the means for users to share WorldCat-derived data in a manner that is consistent with the cooperatives community norms defined in the WorldCat …
Via LLRX.com: Did the British burn all the books? Remembering the war of 1812 and the first Library of Congress Nicholas Pengelley has once again contributed his expertise as a historian, librarian, writer, and scholar with his article on the War of 1812, from the Canadian perspective. This month marks the anniversary of events that …
NYT: In Wooing of Nissan, a Lesson for Tech Jobs? “But the migration of Japanese auto manufacturing to the United States over the last 30 years offers a case study in how the unlikeliest of transformations can unfold. Despite the decline of American car companies, the United States today remains one of the top auto …
A Step-by-Step Approach to Successful Business Intelligence – “Organizations that have the most success with BI typically approach it incrementally. Discover a step-by-step strategy for success in this newsletter featuring research from Gartner.”
