“EVERYBODY meets in Buenos Aires,” said Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union’s trade commissioner, days before heading there for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) biennial gathering of ministers, which opens on December 10th. Some non-governmental organisations have been blocked by the protest-averse Argentine authorities, but a meeting of people will indeed take place. One of minds […]
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Agilesphere Launches a Review of the Future of Organisation – the Minimal Viable Organisation – at the Agile Business Conference
PRESS RELEASE: LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 4, 2017– Agilesphere has today (4 October 2017) made a call to action for industry to work together to rethink how organisations are structured, ensuring they are ready to tackle the challenges and opportunities society will face. Outlining initial ideas on how organisations can become more strategic, efficient and customer focused, […]
America holds the World Trade Organisation hostage
EIGHT months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the rules-based system of global trade remains intact. Threats to impose broad tariffs have come to nothing. Some ominous investigations into whether imports into America are a national-security threat are on hold. Mr Trump looks less a hard man than a boy crying wolf. All the same, supporters of […]
Top 10 facts about the World Health Organisation
1. The theme for World Health Day this year is Depression: Let’s talk. 2. At birth, a male in Britain has a life expectancy of 79.2 years, of which they could expect to spend 63.1 years in good health. 3. For women, the figures are 82.9 years life expectancy of which 63.9 will be in […]