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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.

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Backdoor Government Decryption Hurts My Business and Yours

Harvard Business

Nowadays, cyberattacks come from a wide range of actors — from individual cybercriminals using ransomware to extort money from your local dentist, to sophisticated foreign states attempting to steal intellectual property. I agree that national governments should boost their efforts to curb cybercriminal activity.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Litigation technology. Intellectual property. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Information Technology.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1990, The Brattle Group offers answers to economic, regulatory and financial questions posed by corporations, law firms and governments around the globe. Intellectual property. Today we take a look at a boutique consulting firm you may not have heard of, The Brattle Group. Consulting Firms, ranking 7th overall.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

Here’s a good cause for Trump to champion: China now holds hostage multinational access to high-tech and capital goods markets by requiring technology transfer to domestic Chinese manufacturers and domestic content requirements. already has operations in China, but Chinese technology companies are now just entering the U.S.