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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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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. 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. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Information Technology. Retail & Consumer Products. Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Transportation. In this way, cross office politics can affect morale and productivity.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. Product liability. Your work portfolio will consist of framing research structures, developing work products, supervising and coaching staff, and working directly with clients to understand their questions and deliver results. Each day at The Brattle Group brings opportunities to make an impact.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition.

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

Harvard Business

made products over the next 10 years. supply chains where proximity to the American buyer is a dollars-and-cents advantage, i.e., where offshore logistics are expensive or unreliable, response time is critical, and the product count is high with specs that change frequently. The key here would be to identify U.S. For example, if U.S.