Special Reports

Following the pandemic, the war in Ukraine continues to cause huge problems in the global supply chain. Thus, we have increased prices up to difficulties in transporting products and shortages of raw materials and food. Also, the cost of producing cars in the car industry has increased. For Toyota Motor,...

On February 24, the world received a sobering wake-up call as Russia invaded Ukraine, a free and democratic country. We are at an inflection point watching the decline of the age of prosperity which was fueled for 30 years by the post-Cold War business expansion. Since 1989, multinational companies have...

Full-stack refers to all the technologies needed to complete a project. A client may want a mobile stack, a Native stack, or a Web stack. A full-stack engineer can handle all the work related to databases, clients, servers, and systems engineering. A “stack” refers to a sub-module of a technology....

If you had an investment property worth a million dollars, you’d take good care of it. You’d paint the walls, fix the broken window, mow the lawn and more.  If you had a staff member worth a million dollars, you’d take care of them too, wouldn’t you? You’d care what...

The training of a dog is a determining factor in its relationship with humans. When we talk about the training we do not refer to the tricks that a dog can very easily learn to do. These are intended to impress. When we refer to training, we talk about understanding...

What is Inflation?  So what exactly is inflation, and how did we rise to such an astronomical rate so quickly? At the time of writing this article, inflation is at 7.9%, the highest that it has hit in the last 40 years. It is based on the consumer price index,...

As we have all endured the collective experience of a global pandemic, it has been a challenge to say the least in keeping up with work life balance, productivity, loneliness, and the possibility of burnout. Now, we may be rounding the corner as pandemic cases are receding from their highs,...

To be a company the public can count on, your company's most valuable resource — its people — needs to be able to count on you, too. There are a few steps you can take to build trust with your internal teams. Organizational values operate on two fronts. Yes, they...

As North America and Europe implement tighter financial restrictions and block Russian banks from using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) transactions system, tensions are growing to an all-time high. When Western countries imposed sanctions on Iran in 2012, U.S. banks were attacked by Iranian hackers and flooded...

We are often all slow to accept that which we don’t like the look of. We tend to believe what we want to believe – that which suits us to believe even when a different reality stares us starkly in the face.  My nephew is currently stuck in Western Ukraine...