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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

While nonprofits, often starved for general operating funds, can’t match pharma’s marketing budgets, a recent Bridgespan study argues that it’s time they and their funders heed business findings on increasing noise in the marketplace and the need to make any new offering, even a life-saving one, stand out.

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Will Arizona Be America’s Next Cybersecurity Cluster? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY

Harvard Business

U of A is home to the Wireless Network and Cyber Security Research Lab, and has been designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. The AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program offers full scholarships for qualified U.S.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Employee data was cited by 37%, followed by wireless access of networks at 34% and bring-your-own-device efforts at 29%.). Android is a fragmented mobile operating system.

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile which announced last month that it had selected a vendor to operate and maintain its planned two-mile downtown streetcar line. will open its $135 million, 2.4-mile

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

Did you have any idea of what you might have wanted to do later, that you wanted to get training for, in all these broad areas, or was part of the process just exposing you to things because you didn’t know whether you would like them or not? I had a vague sense – I think that’s the best way to put it. So that was one.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The event attended will explore the role of tech leaders in fostering positive transformations, addressing ways to bolster operations, tackle difficulties, and achieve concrete business outcomes. In particular, the discussions will focus on the need to adapt latest technological solutions to achieve operational effectiveness.