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What Is A Data Protection Policy? Can It Be Beneficial?

Strategy Driven

Because of potential online and offline security threats to your business, it’s essential to set up your information technology (IT) team dedicated to data privacy and security. In this article, you’ll explore how you can level up your business security by establishing a data protection policy.

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Information Technology's Dangerous Trend in Africa

Harvard Business Review

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. IT is good for developing countries — it empowers people and improves their lives.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

A New Company Data Strategy : This means that a Big Data company strategy requires a good deal of equanimity on the part of these various competing and overlapping roles to create policies that allow for departmental independence, but don’t expose the company to data breaches and misuse of customer data. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Secure Your Flanks, Protect Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. In early 1990s, most new African banks used information technology as a SWATS tool to break the monopolies established during the colonial era. There is a lesson here for business.

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The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data

Harvard Business Review

More governments are getting involved, for the purposes of intelligence, economic development, and cyber offense and cyber defense as part of the next generation of warfare. Every major country is developing that kind of capability. So is this something you see as requiring national policies, government intervention?

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG).

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Toward Africa 2.0

Harvard Business Review

The bill hopes "to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement of socioeconomic development and opportunity." The African diaspora has played key roles in the development of the continent. From Nigeria's Azikiwe to Ghana's Nkrumah , the U.S.

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