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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Low-value travel? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? At a $500M footwear company I once worked with, the founder and CEO—long removed from his role product development—decided that he didn’t like a particular style his product team had designed, developed, and purchased.

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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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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How I used cold emailing to land an internship in Mongolia

Tom Spencer

Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. But the problem was how? I knew no one in Mongolia.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. But methods can be learned. The reason?

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Hackers Are Targeting Your Mobile Phone. Here Are 15 Ways to Slow Them Down

Harvard Business

The same report says $34 million is spent annually on mobile app development while only $2 million is spent on app security. Keep your operating system up-to-date, and back up your phone regularly. Keep your phone as “clean” as possible by moving photos and documents and photos from it to a more secure device.