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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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Kalypso Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Co-founded in 2004 by ex-Deloitte partners George Young and Bill Poston, and (randomly) headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Kalypso’s main mandate is to help firms expand their innovation capabilities. The firm does this by offering technology implementation services, as well as some tech advisory expertise and a little strategy work.

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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II. What to do about the million asylum applications to Europe?

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. He excluded tech industries from the analysis since his aim was to study how IT adoption was helping firms, rather than industries that produce IT-related products.)

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Why Companies and Universities Should Forge Long-Term Collaborations

Harvard Business

But both sides face familiar obstacles, especially when it comes to navigating non-disclosure agreements and creating a flexible but constructive master research agreement that accounts for potential intellectual property (IP). Here’s what that entails. Locate the company’s R&D near the talent.

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