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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

How many times have you had to watch your company’s latest cybersecurity training video? An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Are we impossible to train? Are the hackers always one step ahead?

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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

For this installment of Firm Profiles, we are taking a look at Abt Associates – a firm that is known for utilizing innovation and creativity as a means of tackling some of the most difficult social issues present today. Information Technology Applications. Abt also conducted the first social audit. Practice Areas.

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In Search of the Magic Wand: Career Change at Age 45 Possible?

MishTalk

Thanks, Mark Formal Education is No Magic Wand Hi Mark Unfortunately, and in spite of what the education industry would like you to believe, I present a sobering reality: A career change at age 45 or even 55 is possible, but extremely difficult. I do read your blog, and I can relate to the money business.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. 2000: FTI provided trial graphics and courtroom presentation technology for the highly publicized Bush vs. Gore case to resolve presidential election results.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Also, the compensation is lower than the industry standard, which is a reason why many people leave the firm – they get trained, and they get out. Healthcare Informatics , HCI 100 (largest health care information technology firms)—2013, 2012, 2011. Presentations. Your Next Strategy Presentation. We said it.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. .” The Information Age was exploding.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

For an industrial company dealing with physical assets and goods, the balance sheet presents a reasonable picture of productive assets and the income statement provides a reasonable approximation of expenses required to create shareholder value. But these statements have little salience for a digital company.