The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

In many ways, this should come as no surprise, not least because previous research has highlighted how low-skilled jobs are disproportionately more likely to be affected by the Covid-19 lockdown measures, because they tend to have to be performed face-to-face and therefore cannot be conducted remotely, as so many knowledge-based jobs can.

Skills 106

Skills GDP Crisis Short-term 106

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Yet for many high-stakes decisions that are natural candidates for automated reasoning, like doctors diagnosing patients and judges setting bail, experts often favor experience and intuition over data and statistics. As a result, many high-risk defendants are released and many low-risk defendants are detained. Related Video.

Video 14

Video Software Constraint Objective 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Bitcoin drives adoption of its underlying blockchain, and its strong technical community and robust code review process make it the most secure and reliable of the various blockchains. We might best understand Bitcoin as a microcosm of how a new, decentralized, and automated financial system could work.

Banking 19

Banking Media Decentralization Technology 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The Automation Age. Tutorials and public code exist for applications as diverse as AI-driven art generation , language translation , and automated image captioning. Tutorials and public code exist for applications as diverse as AI-driven art generation , language translation , and automated image captioning.

Library 8

Library Software Engineering Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

The suite comes with many impressive AI applications that you can integrate directly into your deployment and productivity pipeline almost immediately: Contact Center AI; allows you to automate your call center interactions with customers.

Tools 97

Tools Analysis Software Document 97

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Yet our coding of its practices reveals that, as recently as 2016, Citi still was not providing high levels of transparency and control. Company Ranking Methodology We created transparency and control variables with procedures that employed a mix of automation and manual coding of companies’ actual privacy policies.

Policies 10

Policies Company Sample Price 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions. Relatively automated systems like this one have great potential for improving public health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Consider the embarrassing situation that Microsoft found itself in with its Tay chatbot fiasco , where internet trolls exploited vulnerabilities in the bot’s code, feeding it racist, homophobic, and sexist content that millions read on social media. Employee screening software will be systematically biased and thus hire low performers.

Software 9

Software Learning-by-Doing Content System 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

The IFR defines an industrial robot as “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.” ” For years industrial robots were all that a real robot could be.

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Raising funding for startups in Silicon Valley is a low probability game. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. Fewer than 1% who try actually succeed. Outside the Valley, the startup eco-systems are mostly immature, and the probability gets even lower.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The camera was as big as a toaster, took 20 seconds to take an image, had low quality, and required complicated connections to a television to view, but it clearly had massive disruptive potential. After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

At either end of the spectrum are the minorities — mom-and-pop shops on one end, with old-school cash registers and no bar codes, and the most tech-savvy businesses on the other end, who are using data to optimize everything from staffing to inventory. I categorize local businesses into four generations of technological maturity.

Loyalty 8

Loyalty Retail Real Estate Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Does your automated coding allow for idiomatic meanings, as in “This brand is the s—t”? Sometimes the correlations are low between what you think you know and what social listening reveals. Are the data drawn from the entire social-media landscape? Is the sampling of comments statistically sound?

Media 8

Media Brand ROI Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

It’s clear that drivers are expected to do more than simply take a customer from point A to point B; what’s unclear is the kinds of extra personal emotional effort that are necessary, or what will result in a low rating and hence deactivation. This lack of clarity leads to poor morale and driver anxiety.

Long-term 8

Long-term Politics Business Model Tips 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

” With the coding chops to build both prototypes and production systems that work and the stubborn resilience to fail every hour for several years if that’s what it takes, machine learning specialists know that they won’t find the perfect solution in a textbook. Engineering excellence is a must. The result? Wide versus deep.

Organization 15

Organization Engineering Learning-by-Doing Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42%, to a three-year low , where it has languished ever since. Advances in chip and sensor technology, which can translate data from the automated movement of physical goods, should greatly enhance these emerging blockchain systems. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

With cloud, information travels rapidly in both directions, across computing systems that, with attributes like virtualization, scaling up or down to handle bigger workloads, or automated security patching across thousands of machines, are far more flexible.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

” These are representations of business processes in code; they extend the opportunity to have not just attestable data shared between multiple parties, but also attestable processes. With a low score, John could be offered a lease using an automated, smart contract-based process with reasonable rates.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

The color-coded rating (red, yellow, or green) generated by an algorithm helps guide the company in its hiring decisions. They" — car companies — are also developing self-driving cars, but view automation as a process that helps make driving easier and much safer while maintaining the inherent pleasure many feel in driving a car.

Policies 8

Policies Gordon Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. Low-cost, online, competency-based learning universities. A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse.

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Trying to approach those challenges by hand-coding the myriad attributes of a face or phoneme was too labor-intensive, and left machines unable to process data that didn’t fit within the explicit parameters provided by the programmers. In machines, the neurons are virtual—basically bits of code running statistical regressions.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

To achieve that randomness, telephone polls generally make use of a random-digit dial system, in which a computer uses a pre-determined set of area codes and exchanges (the middle three digits, which identify the service provider and area), and randomly generates the last four digits. If the sample is bad, the results follow.

Politics 8

Politics Sample Survey Media 8