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Knowledge Is Power. Data Isn’t.

In the CEO Afterlife

Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. That meant making the call without all of the information, and not fretting about it, but being glad of it.

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Alphabet Workers Union to bring back the ‘Don’t be evil’ motto

HR Digest

On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine. In recent years, a growing number rank-and-file workers are demanding American tech companies put ethics before profit.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Today, many companies are exposed to intelligent device risks that could harm both their own operations as well as their customers. Finally, policymakers should establish international trust and ethics guidelines to govern the development and implementation of ever more advanced AI products and systems. AI International Protocols.

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, it is long past time for the field to have a serious conversation where their data comes from, and the ethics of using big data. Social life and the operation of organizations increasingly leave more or less permanent data traces, like the contrails left by jets.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Harvard Business Review

Second, Bookshare , a social enterprise operated by Benetech, last year processed requests for more than 1.3 Over the next few years, we'll be able to collect (ethically and legally with proper respect for privacy) and analyze the many millions of interactions our users are having with these books. Talk about Big Data!