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Everything Start-Ups Need to Know about Cybersecurity

Strategy Driven

One example of this is the 2013 Target cyber-attack. As USWired outlines , the most effective way of protecting your start-up against the threat of a cyber-attack is to outsource your IT services to experts. Secondly, it is common for cybercriminals to target small businesses as a means of gaining access to larger businesses.

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Will The Future Of Work Require More Investment In Technology, Not Less?

The Horizons Tracker

Germany is in many ways a perfect Petri dish, as not only has inequality risen significantly since unification, they have also forgone the shift towards a finance-driven economy seen in Britain and the United States, and have seen few jobs outsourced due to globalization. per year in 1992 to just 0.3%

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Morning Advantage: The Most Important Stories of 2013

Harvard Business Review

And the bottom dropped out of the Indian outsourcing industry, which contracted as much as 80% while the Indian firm Aegis outsourced its call center — to Dallas. All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. A Rip-Roaring Trade in Corporate Secrecy (The Guardian).

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. A major rationale for a great deal of outsourcing activity has been to put assets in the hands of somebody who can restructure them.

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Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral

Harvard Business Review

The ways of doing this are via a DIY approach or an outsourcing approach. This post contains excerpts from Thales Teixeira''s June 2013 article " How to Profit From Lean Advertising.". Read my full analysis in this month''s issue of HBR (registration required). Golden Grahams/Mekanism. Together the videos got more than 2.5

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. The size of the gig economy and how fast it’s growing also seem to be over-imagined at times.

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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

At that time, many consumers adopted a new level of frugality , such that they took on previously outsourced tasks and became more self-reliant. Despite being a leader in the mobile phone market with a market share of over 40%, Nokia experienced a dramatic decline that led to a sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2013.

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