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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

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. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. Intellectual property. E-discovery software provider. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Focus as much on culture as technology. Security is so much more than purchasing antivirus software and conducting penetration testing.

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Why On-Demand Talent Is the Future

Comatch

On-demand talent platforms provide specialists such as software engineers that can generate and develop ideas to keep a firm relevant and healthy in the digital age. . This means that firms need to draw up new policies that take into account the new scenery in which they will operate today. It’s not as daunting as it looks.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business

The widely touted reasons for these failures include censorship by the Chinese government and cultural differences between China and the West. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia).

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. To be fair, Uber didn’t start it — Lyft did.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.