Remove Industry Remove Information Technology Remove Productivity Remove Software
article thumbnail

Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Smaller Manufacturers Can Upgrade Their Tech

Harvard Business

It is an opportune time for SME manufacturers to upgrade their operations by investing in new software and manufacturing innovations. The reasons include pressures on OEMs to build more resilient supply chains and to regionalize production and the falling cost and increasing ease of use of new technologies.

article thumbnail

Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality has been designed for enterprise and consumer devices such as smart phones and tablets, and can be delivered via software applications downloaded onto a device or hosted in the cloud. We are now seeing augmented reality being deployed by industry. Augmented Reality and Strategy. AR in the Tourism Sector.

Tourism 88
article thumbnail

Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

Data 106
article thumbnail

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. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

article thumbnail

Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for consultants

QEmploy

Information Technology represents one of the fastest growing industries and it’s essential in today’s society. Be it smartphones, laptops, tablets, social media networks or virtual businesses, they are all dependent on developing software and technologies. FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).