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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Worryingly, one recent survey indicated that while companies are investing heavily in Big Data, many employees lack data-mining and analytics skills. Last month the supermarket giant Tesco announced a partnership with a technology firm Amscreen aimed at improving the targeting of its advertisements. The reason?

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New Supply Chain Jobs Are Emerging as AI Takes Hold

Harvard Business Review

While AI will be deployed to manage certain tasks, including higher-level decision making, the technology’s true power is in augmenting human capabilities — and that holds true in the supply chain. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias.

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How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating

Harvard Business Review

In a recent ethics survey, Fuld & Company asked competitive analysts from more than 100 large firms worldwide to gauge their potentially risky information-collection behavior. For example, only 40% of Europeans surveyed said that they had received any training on these guidelines, compared to 68% of their U.S. counterparts.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation. —are making substantial investments in AI as well.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. It’s not surprising.