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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market

Harvard Business

Pentagon procurement procedures have long complicated commercial software companies’ entrance into the defense market difficult, but the authors’ experience working with both tech startups and the defense industry leads them to believe that now is a good time for companies to enter the market.

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How Smaller Manufacturers Can Upgrade Their Tech

Harvard Business

It is an opportune time for SME manufacturers to upgrade their operations by investing in new software and manufacturing innovations. The reasons include pressures on OEMs to build more resilient supply chains and to regionalize production and the falling cost and increasing ease of use of new technologies.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Research by one of us (James) links this trend to software. Years ago, one of us (James) started a company that sold publishing software.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Information Technology. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

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Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode

Harvard Business

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.