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Has AI Helped To Meet The Sustainable Development Goals?

The Horizons Tracker

As many of the extravagant claims around artificial intelligence have failed to materialize in the last few years, it’s tempting to regard the technology as having had a limited impact on the world. The technology also holds significant promise in terms of lifting people out of poverty and providing cleaner, more affordable energy.

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Using AI For The Good Of Society

The Horizons Tracker

The authors believe this is a particular risk in developing nations, where regulations are not as stringent, due in part to the desire for those nations to attract the leading technology firms. The technology also holds significant promise in terms of lifting people out of poverty and providing cleaner, more affordable energy.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

A CareerPlug survey of 500 employees indicated that 72 percent of individuals have left previous jobs due to a toxic work environment. If an employee does not feel comfortable in their work environment, retention becomes difficult, which is why it is important to maintain healthy employee relations.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Future Has Moved… and Left No Forwarding Address.

Strategy Driven

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Quotes on The Future.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

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Praising Customers for Ethical Purchases Can Backfire

Harvard Business Review

Like leading the way in cup technology with the first U.S. In one study, participants viewed a short 40-second Starbucks commercial that either praised a customer for making an ethical purchase (it used phrasing such as: “Everything we do, you do. Everything we do, you do. hot cups made with 10% post-consumer recycled fiber.

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How Organizations Can Thrive in the Digital Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business Review

We live in a digital economy: a virtual environment that has changed the rules of doing business and made disruption the norm. Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Image courtesy of Korn Ferry. November 2016).