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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers.

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Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode

Harvard Business

The main reason they can harm companies to such a staggering degree is that today’s cybersecurity systems use centralized monitoring, with little beyond their main firewalls to protect the rest of an organization. Today’s cybersecurity systems have been built to detect previously identified malicious codes and malware.

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Generating Value While Transforming Insurers’ Legacy Technology

BCG

Article Thursday, December 08, 2016. Most insurers have been slower than other types of financial services companies, such as banks, to rethink their business from the customer’s point of view—and to invest in end-to-end transformation of legacy technology systems that makes shaping customer journeys possible.

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Medical Systems Hacks Are Scary, but Medical Device Hacks Could Be Even Worse

Harvard Business

On Friday, a major cyber attack hit health systems around the world. In Britain, where the attack affected hospital IT systems, doctors were unable to access patient records. Unfortunately, attacking hospital IT systems is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cyber vulnerabilities in the health care sector. acute and 35.5%

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow

Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. AS9100 is an international standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry, which aims to improve safety and reliability of aerospace products. Competition at the domestic and international markets. Roseke, Bernie.

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Most firms hire in batches and relying on a core group of schools enables a consistent flow of talent” ( “Here’s How to Break Into the Management Consulting Industry,” 2016 ).

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Will Cognitive Computing Disrupt the High-Skill Labor Market?

Tom Spencer

She danced to requests and wittily answered customers’ questions on topics which ranged from product information and weather forecasts to their love life. So what, if anything, distinguishes Pepper’s original artificial intelligence with the new capabilities she received from Watson’s cognitive computing system?