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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. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.

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

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Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Zoom phone vs Ring Central: Pros & Cons from our CTO

Kraft Kennedy

Phones are tricky because they are one of the oldest technologies a law firm utilizes, and culture plays an important role. Headsets are half the cost of a handset, even the wireless, noise-cancellation variety. Finally, check out the roadmaps and see if anything catches your eye in future features being developed. Chris Owens.

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When is “Agile Scaling” the Answer?

Johanna Rothman

My very first job out of school was a development role on a very large telecommunications system for the Department of Defense. We implemented wireless, broadcast, the equivalent of webinars, all kinds of stuff. We probably could not have developed that telecommunications system with 12 people. No, none of them had.

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The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light

Harvard Business

Rather than windowless work stations commonly found in call centers, the Airbnb Call Center is designed to be an open space with access to natural light and views of the surroundings while replacing desks and phones with long couches, standing desks and wireless technology. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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

Management Consulted

Altman Vilandrie is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses pretty exclusively on telecom, media and tech (TMT), so it does a lot of work with internet service providers, wireless providers, mobile manufacturers, and also a lot of work in the online advertising and media side of things as well. Okay, great. So that was one.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.)