About 70 percent of pharmaceutical products are solid-dosage forms — tablets, capsules, oral powders, and powders for solutions or suspensions. With about 36 to 40 percent of industry costs resulting from manufacturing, the granulation process plays an increasingly important role in production as it provides the primary physical modification of the bulk ingredients leading to [...]

Insurance, retirement and investment group LV= is extending its apprenticeship programme, continually taking on new hires over the next 12 months.

The scheme, which was first launched in 2008, was one of the first apprenticeship schemes in the financial services sector.
LV= currently has over 150 staff taking part in its [...]

Networking giant Cisco Systems announced Tuesday a deal with meter maker Itron to advance Internet Protocol-based communications for the power grid.
The two companies will create a reference design for using the IPv6 Networking Protocol to connect everything from people’s homes to power distribution equipment on the grid. That reference design will form the basis for gear installed [...]

The customer is always right. The customer is therefore also a royal pain. One of the trickier problems executives face is that this indispensible kvetch has poked her nose into places where she once did not belong. The customer is no longer sitting patiently in the dining room waiting to consume [...]

The savings and investment firm has announced that it will be cutting 600 jobs over the next 15 months as part of an organisational restructure.
Standard Life will also be creating up to 100 new jobs across the business, which will result in a net headcount reduction of 500.
The cuts are the second [...]

Most of us have heard the saying that “in crisis there is also opportunity.” However, few leaders and organizations take clear, consistent action enabling them to capitalize on specifically what this opportunity is for their situation. So let’s unravel this mystery so you and your organization can take advantage of your opportunity.
The easier opportunity to [...]

Employees whose organisations have been particularly hard hit by the recession have extremely low levels of trust in their CEOs and blame these troubles on poor management.

According to research from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and HR magazine’s sister title Management Today, organisations that have responded to the recession [...]

If you are behind a car sporting a bumper sticker proclaiming, “Change is a campaign, not a decision,” chances are you’re stuck behind Harvard Business School’s venerable Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Kanter is a master at creating or appropriating clever phrases that capture decades of her research and teaching in the field of innovation [...]

As of January 1, 2010, Charlotte Russe operated over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers’ lifestyle.

As a scheme is launched next month to pair employers up with schools, HRDs need to be serious about offering work experience, including paying them for it.

Chief executives and senior executives from the private and public sectors will be going back to school next month as part of a scheme to [...]