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Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage

Strategy Driven

As a value-added reseller of platforms and applications from the industry’s top manufacturers, and a provider of our own line of technology products and services, we design, build, and maintain today’s complex voice and data networks. Keith has over 10 years experience in telecommunications and data networking.

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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology? It’s no longer good enough to wait for change to come to your industry; you need to be out there where it’s happening. Idea Scouting.

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Consider the industry. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. During the last decade, the number of unemployed older workers has increased 300 percent.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

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There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone

Harvard Business Review

We have all heard about a gap when it comes to participation of women in the tech industry. Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. There’s also a shortage of women using some of the industry’s products. michael suriano/unsplash.

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How eBay and Facebook are Cleaning Up Data Centers

Harvard Business Review

The cloud containing most of this data is vast and abstract; the technology that keeps it running takes up real space — a lot of it. According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. The problem. The solutions.

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