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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business

When meeting with security leaders, directors should ask how their cybersecurity plan will help the company meet one or some of these objectives: revenue, cost, margin, customer satisfaction, employee efficiency, or strategy. Security is so much more than purchasing antivirus software and conducting penetration testing.

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Friday Fusion: September 4th, 2020

Tsavo Neal

The best format to choose is the one you can create, one your readers would buy — and, most importantly, one that helps them get a result the fastest or in the most efficient way. Are they typically hand-coded from scratch or do they use some sort of site-building software? You also don’t need to use site-building software.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

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A Brief Review of Hillary Clinton’s Innovation Plan

Harvard Business

But overall the Clinton agenda mixes unlikely promises for significantly increased federal spending in education, basic research, and infrastructure with more specific reforms in such hot-button areas as immigration, intellectual property, and tech infrastructure. Here the Clinton agenda gets a mixed grade.