Entries by Hunter Smith

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Keep watch, keep calm: The impact of inflation on business

Deloitte 6/17/2022 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/impact-of-inflation-on-business.html Perspectives How to prepare for and overcome inflation With prices on the rise, more businesses and consumers are confronting the possibility that record inflation rates will persist well into 2022. Business leaders should consider a range of scenarios to effectively deal with inflation-related challenges. Explore four possible scenarios that can help your […]

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If we’re all so busy, why isn’t anything getting done?

McKinsey January 10, 2022 | Article This article is a collaborative effort by Aaron De Smet, Caitlin Hewes, Mengwei Luo, J.R. Maxwell, and Patrick Simon, representing views from McKinsey’s People & Organizational Performance Practice. With endless meetings, incessant emails, and casts of thousands, companies have mastered the art of unnecessary interactions. Winning in the next normal requires much more […]

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The Essential Components of Digital Transformation

Rubberball/Getty Images Harvard Business Review by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic November 23, 2021 Summary.   It’s problematic when companies decide to embark on a digital transformation agenda without having a clear definition, let alone vision, for what it means. The fundamental meaning of transformation is not about replacing old technologies with new ones, or…more The digital revolution forced every organization to […]

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All of Those Quitters? They’re at Work.

The Great Resignation was in fact a moment many people traded up for a better-paying gig. New York Times By Emma Goldberg May 13, 2022 If Applebee’s were the solar system — and for nearly six years, to Nick Haner, it felt that way — the customer would have been the sun. Everything revolved around the […]

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The New Landscape for Content

IDC Connecting Digital Marketing to Virtual Sales MARCH 1, 2022  6 MINS READ B2B marketers have been striving to become “modern marketers” for some time. At it’s core, however, modernization is continuously occurring. It doesn’t have an end. It isn’t a checkbox. Today’s marketing mindset embraces continual change as the new normal. We are at an […]

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Enterprise Digital Infrastructure Buyers: Transforming Strategic Vendor Relationships in 2022

IDC JANUARY 24, 2022  6 MINS READ The changing nature of digital infrastructure is having significant impact on the ways that enterprises evaluate and do business with major infrastructure hardware and software vendors, as well as public cloud service providers and channel partners. Recently published IDC’s global Future of Digital Infrastructure survey research shows that among enterprises […]

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10 Facts About the Benefits of Security Awareness Training

These 10 Facts About the Benefits of Security Awareness Training Are Game-Changers Are you looking for an affordable, effective way to protect your company from cyberattacks and prevent a data breach? In today’s volatile cyberattack landscape, every business in every industry is at risk of a cyberattack. That means that every business needs to make sure that it’s […]

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On Friday, December 10, 2021, news of active exploitation of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228

Severe vulnerability in Java logging libraries allows unauthenticated remote code execution and access to servers, warn researchers. Written by Danny Palmer, Senior Reporter on December 10, 2021 | Topic: Security A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Apache Log4j is easy to exploit and enables attackers to gain full control of affected servers. Tracked as CVE-2021-44228, the […]

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Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development

Gregor Schuster/Getty Images by Steve Glaveski October 02, 2019 Summary.   Not only is the majority of training in today’s companies ineffective, but the purpose, timing, and content of training is flawed. Want to see eyes glaze over quicker than you can finish this sentence? Mandate that busy employees attend a training session on “business writing skills”, […]

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Week in Breach

The National Rifle Association (NRA) https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/cybercriminals-claim-hacked-nra-rcna3929 Exploit: Ransomware National Rifle Association: Gun Rights Activist Group Risk to Business: 1.417= Severe Guess who’s back? Cybersecurity researchers believe that the notorious Evil Corp has rebranded itself as Grief, the group that has claimed responsibility for a probable ransomware attack at The National Rifle Association (NRA). Grief posted 13 […]

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