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Dubai Knowledge Village (DKV) Partner Development Management (PDM) are pleased to share with you issue 9 of DKV Experts Channel. This initiative extends to a wider audience, the large pool of knowledge and expertise resident within the community.
As a leading contributor to the knowledge economy of Dubai and the Gulf, DKV is committed to supporting economic growth by enhancing the regional quotient of skills and knowledge.
Our Business Partners, who have contributed to the DKV Experts Channel are leaders in their own right, bring with them years of experience, specialized skills and knowledge of best practices that can potentially enrich the standard of corporate performance in the region.
You can leverage this platform to identify specific solutions to business issues, identify relevant resources and industry experts and gain insight into business challenges and share knowledge and best practices among other key benefits. | | | Accounting | | | | |  | Business leaders expect tough challenges to 2014 – and forecast a need for more highly skilled accountants Businesses will find it tougher to raise finance, be less likely to give credit and will place greater demands on qualified accountants in five years’ time as a result of the current global economic downturn, new research by ACCA (the Association of More » | | | | Business Soft Skills | | | | |  | The Touchstone of Business Success – “Business Communication Skill” Good Communication skill is an infinite source of sure success for any business organization. It paves smooth tracks of perception, breeds distinct interpretation to result in triumphant execution. According to Jim Rohn - “It gives you the More » | | | | Education | | | | |  | ARE STUDENTS LEARNING? Benjamin Franklin once said:“Tell me and I will forget,Teach me and I will remember,Involve me and I will learn.”Effective teaching of any subject would be impossible without a thorough understanding of learning since Student’s learning is the More » | | |  | The future of financial education(or why the economic crisis is not really all that bad!) These days any prediction of any sort is fraught with the risk of being so embarrassingly wrong. But I can confidently forecast one thing; that the current economic crisis will have a long lasting and significant impact on not just company balance More » | | |  | How to make a winning application to a Top Business School A great GMAT score is not the only thing required to apply to a top business school like Harvard, Wharton, INSEAD, Stanford, ISB or NUS. So what exactly is required to get a seat in a prestigious B School? The admissions committee takes GMAT score, More » | | |  | When Training & Education Save Lives 1. IntroductionIn 2007 the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation was founded in Dubai with the objective to develop and nurture a generation of future leaders in government, the private sector and civil society.Additionally, H.H. Sheikh Mohammed More » | | | | Financial Markets Intelligence | | | | |  | Banking Crisis Although the current rhetoric by the UK government on the current banking crisis promises better future regulation and restrictions on excessive pay in the City, it fails to enlighten us about why banking was allowed to change the way it did over the More » | | | | Health & Safety | | | | |  | THE COST OF NOT TAKING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY SERIOUSLY No one should ever believe that an accident at work is inevitable, unpreventable, a co-incidence or just plain bad luck. Accidents in the workplace can and often do have severe consequences, from loss of income to loss of life. For a More » | | | | Human Resources | | | | |  | DEVELOPING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS Today, every business needs to employ motivated, high performing individuals and teams. But in current times, how can a business ensure they achieve it? To create a high performing team, it is first necessary to understand how a team develops, what More » | | |  | Strategic Knowledge Management (KM) In this article I would like to move our thinking forward and keep at the forefront of our minds that we are now clearer about the differences between Human Resource Management and Human Capital Management.Many large companies and non-profit More » | | |  | THE TOP SEVEN SKILLS FOR BEING A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE MANAGER ARE ALL ABOUT PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT Being a manager can be a daunting job, and often the key to resolving its most challenging aspects lies in skills that no one learns at university, or through technical experience. According to many successful managers across a variety of fields, More » | | |  | Employees with a Good Sense of Business – a Must in Times of Crisis When companies are forced to save costs, training budgets are one of the first to be cut. It seems a lot of managers assume that personnel development is better done in flourishing times. But does this make sense? Aren’t employees with excellent More » | | | | Innovation | | | | |  | A GROWING NEED FOR HACKING INNOVATION AND MANAGING RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS A GROWING NEED FOR HACKING INNOVATION AND MANAGING RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESSThe World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 closed with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new kind of collaborative and innovative leadership to More » | | | | IT | | | | |  | Virtualization with VM-ware Virtualization OverviewAmong the leading business challenges confronting CIOs and IT managers today are: cost-effective utilization of IT infrastructure; responsiveness in supporting new business initiatives; and flexibility in adapting to More » | | | | Leadership | | | | |  | Scientific, Systematic Succession Planning: Picking successors the right way is hard, but it solves many performance issues Scientific, Systematic Succession PlanningPicking successors the right way is hard, but it solves many performance issuesA GMJ Q&A with Randall Beck, a Gallup senior managing partnerWhen a company calls in an expert or two to talk about More » | | |  | Spring: A rejuvenated world of opportunities Tucked away in our corporate office bunkers surrounded by artificial life forms of plants and concrete, we cease to realize the effect of spring on the world around us. Spring is the time when after a hard and tough winter during which nature has More » | | | | Management | | | | |  | How to Handle Heavy Workloads: 4 Practical Tools for when you have more work than time Do you have days when you feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of work you have on your plate? Do you worry about forgetting things or whether you are going to be able to actually get things done before their deadlines? You are not alone. Having More » | | | | Professional Development | | | | |  | Are we investing wisely? Professional development, training, learning, education, outcome-based training, competency, etc. what do all of these terms means?On a related topic, we keep hearing about knowledge economy, about the need to invest into our “most important assets” More » |
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