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A Commitment to Move

CLO Magazine

He had been named the company’s first human resources director for India and was working around the clock to bring this fast-growing venture to life. Born with severe bronchial asthma, Varma’s condition worsened as Accenture expanded its India footprint from 200 people in 2001 to an astounding 40,000 employees by 2008.

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

631: Number of enterprise big-data companies expected to exist in 2017 ( IBISWorld , visual ). 340,000: Projected number of people working specifically on big data in 2018 ( McKinsey ). Anderson, 2008.). Future Work Skills 2020: Computational Thinking from Apollo Research Institute. Big Reports.