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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Some firms hired expert industry consultants to help them find ideas outside their firms, but these individuals, too, had (and still have) limited knowledge, and in some cases conflicts of interest. The best ones often are working with a firm’s competitors. How else would they really know what’s going on?).

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The Most Overlooked Part of Your Data Security

Harvard Business Review

Organizations constantly replace outdated computers, servers, laptops, copiers, and countless other types of electronic devices to keep up with technology and enhance worker productivity. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years.