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JR Watkins is a US-based home care, body care, and gourmet food products manufacturer. Throughout most of its 150-year history, JR Watkins relied on direct sales. The company underwent a big change 10 years ago and started working with retailers and wholesalers.

Tableau 10.2 is now available for Tableau Online, the cloud-based business analytics platform for enterprises. The other two Tableau offerings, Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, will soon be running with this latest version as well. Users can still use their current versions of Tableau Desktop to publish to their Tableau Online 10.2 sites.

The Business Intelligence and Data Analytics market has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The most recognisable one is the shift to self-service solutions, i.e. those capable of empowering ordinary business users to understand data and turn it into insights with little technical skills required.

There are big gaps between what the customer is expecting at the end of an ERP project and what the project is implemented to be aligned as outcomes. Why is it happening although the project is implemented in aligning with the project’s goals and objectives? 

There are many reasons to explain why it could happen. However, there is a single answer which is always absolutely correct for any project. It is that the project is implemented and evaluated as cut-off deliverables, not as on-going outcomes which are developed across milestones of key & incremental benefits upon the pre-defined benefit road map.

As we mentioned in the previous blog post, the ideal process of duplicating top performers starts with quantifying the characteristics of those persons. Specifically, in this step, you need to analyse your top employees and figure out which traits set them apart from the other middle and bottom performers. Afterwards, consolidate these traits into a pattern which is used for benchmarking new hires and existing employees.

Top performers are those who work consistently, positively, proactively and flexibly. They align personal goals with professional goals and take the toughest assignments as challenges or opportunities. Much has been written about the characteristics of a top performer, which can be found easily with a few clicks on Google. But are these findings practical? We must say, not much. They might help you paint a portrait of a top performer but how you are going to apply it for your business remains unanswered.

In the last blog post, we have proved that there is a significant similarity in how great leaders and managers are perceived around the world, regardless of cultural and geographical differences, and what a universal profile of great business leaders looks like.

The adoption of Financial Shared Services Centre has revolutionised the strategic roles of the finance function in global corporations by delivering more added value to other functions and processes via their analytics and decision-making capabilities. Such centres have evolved to not only focus on traditional tasks, such as costs reduction but also enhance organisations’ effectiveness and efficiency in many ways.

Rooster is the tenth animal sign in the 12-year cycle of the oriental astrology. And people who were born under this sign are thought to be natural-born leaders, just like a rooster is the leader of a chicken coop!

Read more: Which leadership's key factor is unintentionally forgotten?

While the importance of leadership in business has been proven in multiple studies, how to define and measure leadership is still a controversial topic, especially when we take into account the context of today’s globalised business landscape, where it is commonplace for global corporations to move their managers from one country to another. Is effective leadership perceived differently among countries and cultures? Or is there a universal profile of great business leaders and managers?

Read more: An insight to leadership skills in the age of disruption