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Stay Focused During Meetings: Best Practices to Incorporate

Chart Your Course

To get the most out of this substantial cost center, employees and employers need to maximize attention and retention at every meeting. Protein is a good pre-meeting fuel since it takes longer to digest and supplies energy over a greater amount of time. Americans have more than one billion meetings per year.

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The Internet Shouldn’t Run on Dirty Energy

Harvard Business Review

The good news is that an internet powered entirely by renewable energy is closer than many people realize. Leading companies are learning that sourcing renewable energy for data centers is a low-cost way to demonstrate commitment to global climate goals while adding reliability and predictability to energy consumption.

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

And half-hearted efforts are akin to putting in just enough energy to jump halfway across the stream. IT is asked to the table far too late to advise on the difficulties of consolidating systems after a merger , then faulted when the task takes longer and costs more. Neither side fully appreciates how difficult this is.

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IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. It’s about focus and mental cycles: How much time and energy do you put toward managing in-house technology activities?”. To borrow a computer-science term, the denotational semantics are all wrong.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. supporting customers with new experiences (can my thermostat talk to my energy provider?), Why is this?

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US.

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