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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

How many times have you had to watch your company’s latest cybersecurity training video? An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Are we impossible to train? Are the hackers always one step ahead?

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process. Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies. Newport News Shipbuilding, which designs U.S

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Types of Consulting

Tom Spencer

Strategy consultants work with the CEO and senior management to address strategic problems including declining profitability, growth strategy, market entry, product development, or responding to a competitive threat. HR consultants help organisations attract, select, train, compensate and assess employees.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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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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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Catalyst for Change. For some types of projects (e.g.

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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. In the 1980s, for instance, organizations could train their typists in word processing or keep some typist positions open.