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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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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Consultancy firms employ graduates from a wide range of educational backgrounds. Coming from a practical and hands on degree proved that they can think on their feet.

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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 begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Image: Pexels.

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. So proposed solutions tend to involve reforming education and worker training programs. It is not surprising that workers do not acquire more of these skills, since they do not reap any of the benefits of their increased productivity.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Commercial vendors, in fact, may have to work even harder with staff to develop trust in their products. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. Management techniques explained 18% of that difference.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development. The diffusion of manufacturing technology through global trade, investment, and education has hurt the company, too.