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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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Proposals, Part 2: The Potential Solutions

The Consultants Peer Group

This individual, like so many solopreneurs, had come from within an industry that they now intend to consult to. The individual was describing a meeting with a C-suite member of an organization in the industry who was talking about their needs and whether the consultant could help them. This is for your protection.”

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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Intellectual property theft. The ethical case for resisting Chinese regulation is clear.

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Are all your eggs in one valuation basket?

Rod Burkert

Will you be speaking to a room full of prospects any time soon … prospects at a professional firm, industry gathering, or trade organization? Most of us operate in the 1:1 client service only world. We can unzip the intellectual property we use in our 1:1 world and create valuable courses, toolkits, webinars, etc.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

It should now be dawning on us that they also reflect a new reality when it comes to keeping legitimate business secrets, requiring a new mindset and strategies from those leading all kinds of enterprises, especially in knowledge-intensive industries. The primary driver of this new reality is not technical, but economic.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? But a relatively unknown, unbranded intellectual property company – with far less to lose – might be much more aggressive in minimizing taxes.