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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

In 2018 alone, 53 unicorns were added to the list. They require great technological conversions. But technology may, in fact, be a minor part of the task. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I Diane Gherson is a trailblazer in introducing agile technologies in human resource processes. Mastercard believes in developing both current and future skills.

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3 Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer

Harvard Business Review

But I think we get closer to the heart of AI in 2018 when we think about small and mundane ways in which AI makes work just a little easier. It is often regarded as the kind of technology that only the most clever and most mathematically-minded people can understand and work with.

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To Make Better Decisions, Combine Datasets

Harvard Business Review

Take the airline control system—the outcomes it delivers vary tremendously by weather, equipment availability, time of day, and so on. Firms have been developing models that predict how their customers will behave for years. Decision making Information & technology Strategy' This idea is not new, of course.

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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business Review

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. In addition, the growing use of facial recognition technologies across China adds to worries about privacy and government over-reach. billion citizens.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business Review

The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. In the U.S., cents per kilowatt-hour.

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