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Finding and retaining the right talent is an important issue for organizations worldwide. The definition of what is the right talent for the organization should be created first to make sure we recruit the right people and then the next question is what should be done after the right talent has been recruited? Skills Management Systems try to answer these questions by providing skills library and skills inventory for the organizations, thus the gap analysis between the available skills and ‘missing’ skills for the organization can be produced. This analysis accompanied with the prediction of skills demands in the future is a good base to develop a hiring policy and also development plans for the current employees. This paper describes the implementation of Skills Management System in a world-class research and development organization.

Palm oil agroindustry face challenge in business process sustainability. Most of the research consider all stage of business in sustainability analysis moreover less of consideration in upstream parts. This research aims to analyzes the palm oil plantation sustainability performance to provide recommendation in achieving sustainability goals for upstream business parts. This research was conducted in two most productive location in producing palm oil in the world: Sumatera and Kalimantan, Indonesia. A multi-dimensional scaling with leverage analysis were applied to assess the palm oil plantation sustainability performance and provide potential improvement recommendation. The result show that the model had successfully to analyze the sustainability performance on triple bottom line dimensions: economic, social and environment. Twenty-one indicators were assessed and found location sustainability performance on palm oil plantation. Leverage analysis provide recommendation to improve the performance, including CPO quantity loss, CPO quality loss, workers personal rights condition, corporate social responsibility, soil condition and water management.

Technology is very important in facilitating the success of the company to win competition. Organizations strive to select and utilize the various technologies in order to support the achievement of their visions and missions. Development of technology covers all aspect from the hardware, software, data communication of technologies and application. The purpose of this research is to study the development of technologies or trend regarding the usage of the said technology in society. The research method of this research was conducted through direct observation, literature review, evaluation and verification of the resultbefore it was standardized into a usage model of technology. The development of business strategy in this research used SWOT analysis. The study’s result stated that there are five technology trends which are used in today’s society.

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