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Consulting Tip #7: Beware of Other People Using Your Intellectual Property for Their Exposure

Johanna Rothman

No payment for my time or my IP (Intellectual Property). They wanted my intellectual property for their exposure. See Project Lifecycle Workshop: How to Manage Project Risks to Release Successful Products.) Even though their offer will cost the consultant time, money, and intellectual property.

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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

In the pre-digital era, product and service development was usually conducted by experts working inside firms or through expert vendors hired by those firms. Managers need a framework for navigating this new landscape and harnessing the power of these new tools. The bad news is that these opportunities also create some new challenges.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.