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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ).

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p. References. Liker and James K.

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Stop Worrying About Whether Machines Are “Intelligent”

Harvard Business Review

Given the trend to a surveillance society, our deepening embrace of technology, and the emerging Internet of Things, are we right to be afraid? ” A second notion, proposed by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell, is of machine intelligence based on heuristics. Yet this, too, must be programmed in.

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When to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

I propose a risk-oriented framework for deciding when and how to allocate decision problems between humans and machine-based decision makers. This diagram presents examples of a number of problems ordered by their predictability given the current state-of-the-art in machine learning and AI technology.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Simon Sinek has a great TED Talk about hiring people because they believe what you believe, not because they have the particular skill you think you need right now. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. The selection criteria.