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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Low-value travel? Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? The preparation for that week, combined with the burden of having the leadership team unavailable for such a long period of time, hamstrung Ford’s ability to react to operational issues in a timely manner. Long commutes?

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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. Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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Transforming Governance Through Modern Technology

Tom Spencer

This can ensure that businesses operate ethically, transparently, and in the best interest of stakeholders. However, by adopting new online tools, organizations can improve efficiency by enabling smoother collaboration, more efficient information sharing, and reduced travel costs.

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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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Job Hub: Virgin Group Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

This group has a startling 300 companies in its portfolio in sectors ranging from travel, telecommunications, health, financial services, leisure, music, space travel, and renewable energy. The group’s travel-related operations, led by 51%-owned Virgin Atlantic Airways, are among its largest cash generators.

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Strategic Plans Are Less Important than Strategic Planning

Harvard Business

Mention the word “plan” to most managers and the image that springs to their minds might well be a travel plan. ” The result is much the same as with travel: a specific beginning and end with precise steps along the way. Their image is more of the house-plan type or travel itinerary. What does that involve?

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. To ban or not to ban laptops?