Minimisation

The Information Protection and Business Resilience practice of KPMG in the United Kingdom is currently the largest Information Security/Cybersecurity practice of all the “Big 4” in the country and is in the process of growing further, targeting a team size of 500 by Dec 20161. IPBR does not currently offer any services related to software assurance, the only notable exception being penetration testing, a service which applies to both applications as well as infrastructures. This document will…

These differences are summarized in Table 1.1. The tension around definition persists in the literature and a central theme in this volume is highlighting the contradictions between these two broad understandings of HRM. We argue that for ethical and sustainability reasons, more stakeholder orientated approaches to people management are preferable, with shareholder dominant approaches facing both quotidian micro-crises at firm (encompassing problems of human capital development and commitment)…

event of difficulties is a possibility, so that the winner can be paid more subsidy than they bid up to the amount bid by the second-placed bidder, then perhaps a balance can be struck between avoiding the winner’s curse and getting close to cost minimisation. The choice between bids There is a real difficulty for the tendering authority in choosing between bids where there is more than one dimension to consider, such as bidders offering a range of products (a network of bus services) or…