In fact, 37 % of surveyed
firms said technology was their most innovative initiative in the past three years, and a significant 83 % agreed that law firms are increasingly adopting new technology.
Not exact matches
The
technology and business consulting
firm says
The end - to - end manufacturing hype ignores 3D printing's cost and speed limitations
says Duncan Stewart, Head of
Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Research at Deloitte Canada, and author of the consulting
firm's much - cited annual TMT Predictions report.
«These specific
technologies can reduce the risk of drilling problems, so they could easily save $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 per drilling project by increasing the knowledge of the geological formations,»
says Colleen Kennedy, an analyst at Lux Research, a
technology market research
firm.
«The orientation should begin at the first click of the mouse when someone first goes on the company's website, so by the time the person comes in for the interview, they already know quite a lot about the organization,»
says Richard Jordan, a business coach who has been responsible for reshaping the recruiting and orientation process at a number of
technology firms.
«I can smell the culture when I walk into the room,»
says Mesher, who is now chairman of Nulogy, a rapidly growing Toronto supply chain
technology firm.
Now, he plans to double down on investment opportunities in emerging
technologies such as blockchain, and
says the
firm will participate in upcoming initial coin offerings.
This goes beyond creating a different way to conduct business — it's a new ideology for people to follow,
says Art Mesher, a Waterloo, Ont., tech investor who ran Descartes Systems, a logistics
technology firm, for a decade.
«There have been too many princes wanting to be kings and they will not all be successful,» Ryan Gilbert, partner of financial
technology venture capital
firm Propel Venture Partners,
said in an interview.
«We're seeing the mature
technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent,»
said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design
firm Gensler in San Jose.
Compared to larger
firms, which must go through layers of management and bureaucracy to develop new
technology, «we're like the little speedboat,»
says CEO and founder Jason Smith.
An executive for a French defense giant that operates in China
said that safeguarding the company's
technology is important, but the effort is no barrier to his
firm's success there.
Firms that employ these
technologies have the potential to gain a significant competitive advantage in their market, and as Jack Welch, former CEO of GE famously
said, «If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete!»
Dual - class shares and other regulatory changes are making Chinese
technology firms look closer to home for listings,
says Wilson Chow of PwC.
A court or police officer could legally compel you to press your finger onto your smartphone to unlock it, but if your phone is locked with a passcode, no one can legally compel you to open it,
says William J. Cook, an attorney and partner at law
firm Reed Smith in Chicago, who specializes in information
technology, privacy, and data security.
«Android is the right [operating system] for many consumers at the right time,»
says Kevin Restivo, senior mobility analyst for
technology tracking
firm IDC.
Start - ups, especially
technology and media
firms, tend to be clustered in Santa Monica and neighboring areas on the West Side of Los Angeles,
says Tyler Koblasa, a Los Angeles entrepreneur and organizer of Start - Up Weekend L.A. and Start - Up Nights, programs to create a community of Los Angeles entrepreneurs.
«Given the tight supply of tech talent... I think it's a rather risky strategy to limit your talent pool with that kind of filter,»
said Asa Sphar, vice president of recruitment and profiling at
technology search
firm CSI Executive Search.
Even in strictly defined
technology jobs, employers are increasingly looking for «soft skills and leadership abilities,»
says the Robert Half
firm, adding that «many employers now view these skills as requirements for some IT roles.»
«As business processes have started to rely more on information and IT, the temptation, the desire is to give people access to everything [because] we don't want to create any friction for users to do their jobs,»
said Robert Sadowski, director of marketing and
technology solutions at security
firm RSA.
Even as Apple got people used to the idea of having a supercomputer in their pocket, it significantly changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world,
says Brian Blau, research director for consumer
technology and markets at research
firm Gartner.
«Once they made the decision to move their servers out of mainland China their prospects here dimmed considerably,»
said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a China
technology research
firm.
Scott Spector, a Silicon Valley compensation expert with law
firm Fenwick & West,
says the typical small
technology company he advises may well grant options equal to 24 % or more of total shares outstanding, up from 15 % just three years ago.
But Andrew Crocker, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
said that the number of government requests to
technology companies has been increasing since 2014, when data first started to become available as part of a settlement between
technology firms and the government.
April 2 - General Electric Co's healthcare unit
said on Monday it would sell its information
technology business to private equity
firm Veritas Capital for $ 1.05 billion in cash as it sharpens its focus on smart diagnostics and connected devices.
«This was not Stanford, not Silicon Valley, where leaving (a prestigious university or a good job) to start your own company is a badge of honor,»
said Technology Crossover Ventures partner Woody Marshall, who led his
firm's early investments in Netflix, Spotify and Airbnb.
The whole value proposition of
firms like Solyndra, he
says, lay in
technology that avoided the heavy use of silicon, the same material used to make semiconductors.
Big
technology firms could enter the wealth management space, helping the ultra-rich get even richer, analyst
says.
Four out of five travelers in Asia Pacific
said travel was a necessary part of life and that they're willing to prioritize time off work and set aside money for trips, according to a new study by
technology provider Sabre and research
firm The Futures Company.
«It would give them the social graph and a better idea of how social media relates to its customers,»
said Ryan Holmes, chief executive of Hootsuite, a private
technology firm that helps brands and consumers manage their social media accounts.
«You have large players like Amazon, Google, Facebook and others with big pockets that can
say «This is a space we want to own,»,»
said Philippe Collard, founder of Yabusame Partners, a management consulting
firm specializing in the
technology industry.
It is a «transformation effort that is process - oriented, organization - oriented, incentive - oriented - not just
technology - oriented,»
says Bob Haas, vice president of the strategic information
technology practice at the A.T. Kearney consulting
firm in New York.
While the
firm still has an overweight rating on
technology, Wilson
said the latest sell - off could be «a cautionary note about what may eventually unfold in the sector as the market starts to price in a tired cycle over the course of 2018.»
IMAX is pursuing a scale - up of movie theaters in Saudi Arabia, the cinema
technology firm's CEO
said Tuesday.
COPENHAGEN, Oct 2 - Danish engineering group FLSmidth & Co A / S
said on Tuesday it has acquired unmanned operation
technology for stackers and train loading systems from the German
firm iSAM.
«This year we are hiring hundreds of employees for development and deep
technology positions,»
says Dorit Dor, vice president of product at Check Point, a prominent IT security
firm.
«In the restaurant business, if you look at the ones that really succeed, consistently they are early
technology adopters,»
says Aaron Allen, founder and CEO of restaurant - consulting
firm Aaron Allen & Associates in Orlando, Fla..
Damian Collins, the chair of the British parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee,
said he would not rule out asking more
technology firms to give evidence on their data collection practices, but there are no plans currently.
The
technology and business consulting
firm says the profit amounted to 94 cents per diluted share for the three months ended March 31.
Now ransomware is affecting larger companies with more sophisticated security operations,» Chris Wysopal, chief
technology officer with cyber security
firm Veracode,
said.
Likewise, implementing
technology - led and design - led solutions within a company is «not an all or nothing switch»,
says Derrick Kiker, a partner at McKinsey & Company and chief executive officer of design
firm Lunar.
What attracted him to Kapor, in particular, is its emphasis on empowering minority communities: Between 2015 and 2017, the
firm says it will have invested $ 40 million in startups that give women and people of color better access to
technology and business opportunities.
«With the studio of the future you are going to be creating content across multiple platforms for the consumer to engage with,»
said Redstone, who also runs Advancit Capital, a venture capital
firm investing in media and
technology companies.
Fred Morley, executive vice-president of the Greater Halifax Partnership,
said despite the dire news, these workers have a good chance of finding jobs at other information
technology firms in the Halifax area.
A unique phenomenon of 3 - D printing is the «perceived right of public access to this
technology,»
said Terry Wohlers, co-author of a recent report from consulting
firm Wohlers Associates.
But if you can hold off divulging your pay until the last minute, you should,
says Dan Martineau, founder of Martineau Recruiting
Technology, a
firm specializing in filling IT executive positions with salaries of $ 85,000 to $ 200,000.
«There would need to be at least one other transmitter probably on the UK mainland for a timing service,»
said co-founder Charles Curry, adding that the
firm would need the British government to commit to using the
technology.
Several
technology companies — senseFly, DroneDeploy, Skycatch — have developed software for this growing market, but the products often leave much to be desired,
says Tomislav Žigo, director of virtual design and construction at Clayco, a Chicago
firm that uses drones on its job sites.
«At the end of the day, a candidate has a number in mind as to what he or she thinks is appropriate,»
says Eddie R. Koller III, executive recruiter and partner at Koller Search Partners, a
technology and media recruiting
firm.
Such a phenomenon is typical, particularly for brilliant engineers at the leading
technology companies,
says Avivah Litan, a systems security expert and analyst for research
firm Gartner.