I did try going back to Settlers 2 last year and it was just as good as I remember it, it really holds up. At least the remake which is also the one I played when I was a kid.
Farthest Frontier has the kind of strict grid of Anno, and is reminiscent of the older more predictable and mechanical pathing of classics like Caesar or Pharaoh. Newer indie city builders like Lethis or Nebuchadnezzar have revived this style. But transporters still move independently through the grid of paths, the main factors are distance from producer to consumer and how many stops a transporter takes in their route.
But in Settlers 1 and 2 you literally build a graph with buildings as nodes and paths as edges with a strict throughput limits per link. It's quite interesting to optimize the resource flows through this graph. It's a lot like designing a good network, except that you have tons of types of resources moving to tons of different producers and consumers, with long multi-step supply chains. It's closer to Factorio perhaps in feel, but there are significant differences.
An internal audit is how you go from gap assessment to ready for external audit.
External auditors should be selected by looking for ones who themselves are audited by your regional government auditing body. Eg if you wanted to be audited and certified for ISO27001, and you happened to be in UK, you may choose BSI as your external auditor, who themselves are audited by UKAS.
It’s a web of trust model.
The purpose of these certificates are to shortcut compliance checks by your customers (or in some cases suppliers).
You don't need to use an external auditor that is your local audit provider, you just need to be sure that the audit provider (certification body) is accredited with an accreditation under IAF (eg IAS, UKAS, Dakks, COFRAC etc).
Any accredited certification body the world can audit you, and you can also save a lot by opting for a smaller certification body abroad instead of, for instance, one of the big names (I am an auditor for ISO 42001 and ISO 27001 as well)
If you want to get a really good feel for these functions, you can do worse than pick up a financial RPN calculator like the HP 12C. It is largely unchanged since it was introduced in the early 80s but it’s highly functional aesthetic and purpose make for a great experience if you like to learn something new that is also genuinely useful. Personally, I keep one of these in my bag. It’s great for meetings where financials are on the table and you also don’t want the distraction of a full desktop OS around you.
This is good advice. Also running a quick function can be quicker than opening up excel, fiddling with a cell, etc. (my excel skills are obviously at-best rudimentary). And it’s a cool moment when RPN finally “clicks” and figure out how to perform sequential operations in it without having to rely on increasingly nested parentheses.
Unfortunately, these have disappeared from trading floors. Mine is under lock and key.. I sometimes take it or an HP 41 out and place it on my desk just to see the horrified looks on twentysomething’s faces.
I had a small collection of RPN calculators, one or two non-HP, but alas someone broke into my house and took them. I really should have called around to pawn shops after, I’d very much like to have them back.
I agree with you, however, layoffs and performance management are different things though.
If an employee is not being productive, that is a performance management issue and a good company will start by trying to fix it and if that doesn’t work will replace them. A bad company will retain bad performing people.
Layoffs are when you don’t have the work for them or you can’t afford something so are restructuring or similar. A good company will make layoffs and restructure if the economics require it. A bad company will keep going without doing that, ignoring their finances.
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