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Leaders: Build Your Pre-Resilience for Times of Crisis

Strategy Driven

Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. The idea that leaders have some special aura only removes them further from their genuine, authentic, and human selves, which is precisely what they need at hand to help their stressed organizations.

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Cyber Threats to Churches: What Would Your Church Do?

Ron Edmondson

Lincoln was a member of our church plant, served as a military officer, and now works as an information technology professional in the financial sector. He has over a decade of experience helping organizations understand the threats they face and make informed, risk based decisions. 1 Peter 4:12.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 Army cut off email usage for thirteen civilian office workers and measured the effects on productivity and stress.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Your Customers’ Behavior Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

At a reception for JetBlue’s most frequent Mosaic flyers, I had the opportunity to listen to the airline’s top management discuss its ambitions to improve operations and enhance customer experience. Customers Information & technology Innovation'

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business Review

Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Toss in people bringing their own unsupported devices to work and you can see why security executives are stressed. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives. Securing mobile devices is tricky. Insight Center.