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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience?

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Commercial vendors, in fact, may have to work even harder with staff to develop trust in their products. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

The chances are that the global economy, weighted by nominal GDP at current exchange rates, will grow at 2 percent Globalization, turbo-powered by information technology, has cut short the feedback loop between demand stimulus and supply response. Multinational companies were fanning out to diversify their production bases and markets.