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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

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process. Reading Time: 3 minutes. Newport News Shipbuilding, which designs U.S AR in the Tourism Sector.

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). This has not only reduced the need for checkout operators but who now packs the bags? Artificial intelligence is already having an impact in our daily lives. Image: Pexels. References.

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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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What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Harvard Business

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. presumably you get marginal increases in productivity and decreases in inefficiency — less burn-out, a better working environment, less staff turn-over, etc.

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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. Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Easier and Improved Documentation. Westend61/Getty Images. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs.