As the spread of COVID-19 continues, the way we live our daily lives has fundamentally changed. How often did you actively think about when or where you last touched your own face? Had you ever washed your hands for the full 20 seconds? When was the last time every grocery and corner store in your area was long sold out ... Read More »
Tag Archives: Crisis
Modi’s plan to tackle job crisis in India
The vacancies in various government departments stood above five lakh as of December 2018, including 2,85,725 in railways (C & D level) and 84,037 in central armed police forces. Despite the relentless increase in its salary bill, the Centre may go on a hiring spree to fill over five lakh vacancies in various central organisations over the next two years, ... Read More »
Facebook Mishandled Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal, Say Crisis Experts
The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, accept responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management experts say that until Wednesday, Facebook was 0-for-4. Facebook’s two top executives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, went radio silent after news broke last Friday that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica may have used data improperly ... Read More »
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Crisis Brings Down South Korea’s Industrial Output
South Korea’s industrial output fell in October as Samsung Electronics discontinued its latest flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, a government report said on Wednesday. Production in all South Korean industries dipped 0.4 percent in October as railway workers went on strikes, Xinhua news reported. Production slid further from previous months according to Statistics Korea. Samsung ending production and sales of ... Read More »
Samsung Electronics CEO Says Firm Must Learn From Crisis
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Chief Executive Kwon Oh-hyun on Tuesday said the South Korean tech giant must improve, as it reels from the costly withdrawal of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. Without referring directly to the failure of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7s, Kwon said in a statement Samsung employees should look back and ask whether they had been complacent ... Read More »