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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

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

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Prohibitions, taboos, and ethical issues. Industry regulation. Technological.

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Are all your eggs in one valuation basket?

Rod Burkert

As you can imagine, I am speaking about practice development … the title of my talk is Scale Your Business Model. – We can deliver BVFLS products using leverage to get more time, money, and freedom. We can unzip the intellectual property we use in our 1:1 world and create valuable courses, toolkits, webinars, etc.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business

These issues include legislation, regulation, litigation, enforcement, investigations, geopolitical risk, demands for ethical actions, and public criticism, affecting all the functions of the corporation in their interaction with all levels of global governments (central, regional, local).

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When Is It Important for an Algorithm to Explain Itself?

Harvard Business

Who should be involved in decisions regarding business impact, regulatory compliance, technical approach, and even ethical values when companies integrate machine learning into business operations? Often, the reason given is to protect intellectual property or prevent a security breach.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

Toyota used to conduct plant tours all the time for execs from other auto companies curious about its famous Toyota Production System; replicating TPS elsewhere depended on hard to develop capabilities, not secret formulas.). But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? But a relatively unknown, unbranded intellectual property company – with far less to lose – might be much more aggressive in minimizing taxes.