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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Make sure that security is included in discussions on new products and services. Focus as much on culture as technology.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships.

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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. The dissemination of technology. Indeed, a recent German study found that the jobs landscape is harmed by the poor distribution of technologies such as robotics throughout the economy.

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