A new survey has found that companies will boost their focus on talent management after experiencing difficulty finding talented staff. Organisations are set to boost their focus on talent management in the areas of leadership, succession planning and career path development over the next three years, according to new research. Consultancy firm Towers Watson’s global talent [...]

Managing compliance is essential in the oil and gas industry. However it is becoming increasingly difficult as the volume of asset information and engineering documents floating through gas & oil companies is staggering. Violations can happen no matter how much effort is made to prevent them — and the consequences of a violation can be [...]

As the dust settles following the Chancellor’s long awaited announcement of the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), public sector HR professionals are coming to terms with some of the most significant changes to the employment landscape for years. Personnel Today’s HR Austerity Panel analyses the implications of the CSR. Daniel Thomas reports. Graham White, HR director [...]

Companies are much more vulnerable to problems created by crumbling infrastructure around the world. In August, a traffic jam in China saw a 100 km queue of vehicles develop on a major motorway. The blockage on the Beijing-Tibet expressway was due to road works to repair damage caused by a massive increase in cargo lorries, many [...]

Hemmed in by regulatory changes and a potential squeeze in profitability, insurance companies are now increasingly looking to outsource many of their non-core functions to cut costs and remain competitive. ICICI Prudential, Max New York Life and HDFC Standard Life are among those who have initiated discussions to outsource some of their activities as focus [...]

By Zach Zeilman Although the industry has been curbing emissions for the past two decades, refiners are facing their most challenging target yet. The cap-and-trade system allows companies such as power plants, oil refineries, producers of steel and other polluting industries, to purchase an allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted. Those [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug administration plans to spend millions of dollars to update its tools for reviewing prescription drugs, medical devices and tracking food safety, according to a proposal released Wednesday by the agency’s leadership. The plan calls for investment in a variety of efforts, from developing ways to assess new products to establishing [...]

By Thomas A. Stewart | September 7, 2010 The definition of insanity, says the quip, is doing something again and again but expecting a different result. By this definition, every company I’ve known is looney tunes. We’ve all seen companies throw good money after bad. Oldsmobile was a zombie for years before the brand was [...]

Adapting cost structure; sustaining innovation leadership in a changing environment Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the launch of a Group-wide Operational Excellence initiative. In view of mounting pressures to curb healthcare costs – especially in the United States and Europe – together with recent developments in late-stage projects in the Roche pipeline, [...]

Jim Moseley, managing director of General Mills UK, Ireland and the Nordic markets, has been elected president of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).