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Building a Resilient Global Enterprise Inspired by Biology

BCG

Many global enterprises today have succeeded by following a simple recipe: procure, manufacture, and assemble in the lowest-cost locations, link these using reliable, standardized logistics and information technology, market the resulting products globally, and book profit in low-tax havens. Article Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. cancel or rebid them). To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. As the U.S.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing.

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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

But this is a case where an enterprise decided the risks of convenience outweighed the rewards, and DoD leadership took action to keep its employees from causing inadvertent harm to the military’s network. Sophisticated businesses and enterprises are able to manage the security of their domain with a mix of security products.

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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality has been designed for enterprise and consumer devices such as smart phones and tablets, and can be delivered via software applications downloaded onto a device or hosted in the cloud. Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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AI Adds a New Layer to Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

In addition, there are unique and new cyber risks associated with cognitive and AI technology. Businesses must be thoughtful about adopting new information technologies, employing multiple layers of cyber defense, and security planning to reduce the growing threat.

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How to Accelerate the Adoption of Digital Health Technology

Harvard Business

In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Jamie Jones/Getty Images. And while patient-oriented digital solutions have proliferated in number, their clinical impact has been limited.