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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, that quest goes no further than time management training provided by the HR department. Edwards Deming argued in his book Out of the Crisis , 94% of most problems and possibilities for improvement belong to the system, not the individual. I would argue that most productivity improvements belong there as well.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Will Arizona Be America’s Next Cybersecurity Cluster? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY

Harvard Business

At the same time, equally brilliant minds were coming up with ways to exploit the gaps in security and steal our information—even our identities—and paralyze the infrastructure and systems technology put into place. The AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program offers full scholarships for qualified U.S.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Employee data was cited by 37%, followed by wireless access of networks at 34% and bring-your-own-device efforts at 29%.). Android is a fragmented mobile operating system.

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How Cisco Is Helping Tweens Become Tech-Savvy Global Problem Solvers - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CISCO

Harvard Business

For more than two decades, Cisco has built a world-leading IT training program, Networking Academy , which has empowered millions around the world. So how can the education system breed a new generation of socially conscious and entrepreneurial-minded professionals who also have the skills needed for the future?

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Digitalization of Aerospace Engineering: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them

Epicflow

For example, this can begin with training people who already have some digital skills but have non-digital roles. . Facilitate training of employees so that they can acquire necessary knowledge and skills for work in the digitalized environment, which will increase their confidence. . Take a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity. .

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Return of the Buggy Whip; Streetcar Named Imprudent

MishTalk

O’Toole questioned the wisdom of plowing so much government money into “obsolete transportation systems.” To some, a streetcar conjures not a revivifying force, but the folly of the People Mover, an elevated train built in 1987 that loops 2.9 He asked whether cities are “just building Disneyland rides to make yuppies happy.”