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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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Why On-Demand Talent Is the Future

Comatch

And yet, a report from the Harvard Business Review on rethinking the on-demand workforce states that “despite the extent to which companies are now turning to [digital talent] platforms, very few firms have developed a cohesive organization-wide approach to their use.” . Hiring On-Demand Talent: The Strategies.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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. Litigation technology. Litigation discovery.

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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. Ensure that the organization develops and implements a cybersecurity curriculum for all employees. Their job, in fact, depends on it.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Even though these systems are updated regularly, we can no longer rely on standards and measures that were developed in a different age to reflect today’s realities — especially when we’re evaluating tech firms. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

The cloud , open source software, cheap computing resources, and ideas from local technology hubs are redesigning Africa. In order to understand this shift, we need to better understand how it developed. Today, we are seeing companies with core intellectual properties (IPs) emerging out of Africa.