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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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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Flat screen devices that render two-dimensional data for use in a three-dimensional world can be used to increase a user’s access to information and analytics. We are now seeing augmented reality being deployed by industry. Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. So he began by learning everything he could about maximizing organizational productivity.

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7 Ways to Introduce AI into Your Organization

Harvard Business

Though these technologies can seem daunting, the good news is that getting started with cognitive technologies is getting easier all the time. Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. ” Mostly Buy.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. Other research has documented that the pay gap between firms is contributing to increased income inequality, but our work makes two additional contributions.

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Can AI Address Health Care’s Red-Tape Problem?

Harvard Business

Productivity in the United States’ health care industry is declining — and has been ever since World War II. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. Easier and Improved Documentation.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology.