Learning Trend 2: Personalization & Adaptive Learning One of the components that contributes to a learning experience is another major learning trend bounding ahead in 2019: Personalization and adaptive learning. This trend continues to grow in importance, stemming from a combination of factors, such as the working environment: being short on time to learn and
Listening – An Undervalued Skill That Brings Results In today’s exponentially challenging workplace, communication skills are crucial. You need to communicate at all levels, to your department, team, staff, and clients; yes, skillful communication is a no brainer. But an often neglected side to skillful communication is listening. Listening is an innate part of everything
What’s An Unprofitable Business Worth? Valuing High-Growth, Loss-Making Companies Recent IPOs by high-growth, loss-making businesses such as Lyft and Uber have highlighted a sharp divide among investors over a simple question: What is a company worth? For traditional or value investors, a company’s value is a function of its current and historical
Goodbye LIBOR: Industry Planning For The End of LIBOR Accelerates As regulators escalate their calls for financial firms to plan for the discontinuation of LIBOR, industry bodies are working to ensure that the transition to a post-LIBOR world is smooth. At the center of efforts in derivatives markets is the International Swaps and Derivatives Association
6 Reasons Modern Workers Quit Today, HR and talent development staff often experience high employee turnover. Why is this? Ireland and the UK lead the way when it comes to percentage of population with third-level degrees. According to a 2016 OECD report, the UK claims top spot, with 44% of its population holding a bachelor's
Learning Trend 1: Learning Experience ‘Learning Experience’ is used as an umbrella term incorporating several aspects of the learner interaction within learning content and access to that content. Here we look at a few of the most talked about features in the evolution of learning experience. LEARNING EXPERIENCE: LXP LXPs have been touted by some
Global Bond Markets Act Strangely Amid Uncertainty In the US, yields on speculative-grade corporate bonds fell below yields on speculative-grade corporate loans, despite loans’ higher standing in the capital structure. Meanwhile, in Europe, corporate bond issuers successfully raised bonds at negative yields, upending the normal functioning of capital markets. Why are global bond markets
The Future of Work and the Shape of Future Skills The paradigm shift we recently identified, largely driven by what we called ‘the 3As’ of AI, Automation and Analytics, continues to reshape the nature of work. Depending on how you look at it, these ‘3As’ predict a wonderful life of leisure where robots do
M&A Activity Heats Up But Antitrust Regulators Are Wary Competition regulators in the UK rejected a proposed merger between grocery chains Sainsbury’s and Asda, citing potential harm to shoppers in the form of higher prices and less choice. Meanwhile, in the US, the Department of Justice appears poised to reject a merger between wireless networks
The Future of Workplace Learning The world of work is experiencing what looks like a perfect storm of changing forces: Rapid advances in technologies like AI and automation New business models Changing workforce expectation and demographics The rise of a digitally native, globally dispersed workforce Intuition is a leading global knowledge solutions company. We help
