In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, every company whether they realize it or not, is creating multiple digital platforms. Why? Because platforms transcend traditional value chains and enable companies to create new business value. What this really means is companies are moving away from processes to platforms to create competitive advantages. The top 10 Fortune 500 companies are platform companies (Apple, Facebook, Google and Salesforce, for example). Moving forward, companies that master platform thinking and design will be the champions. Such is the power of this new way of thinking that most if not all firms are in the process of assembling and refining., If you and your company are to fully benefit from them, you need to understand why this is happening and how you can take advantage of it.
Category: Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
Can We Protect AI From Our Biases
As humans, we’re inherently biased. Sometimes it’s explicit and other times it’s unconscious, but as we move forward with technology how do we keep our biases out of the algorithms we create? Documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser argues that we need to have a conversation about how AI should be governed and ask who is responsible for overseeing the ethical standards of these supercomputers. “We need to figure this out now,” she says. “Because once skewed data gets into deep learning machines, it’s very difficult to take it out.”
How Artificial Intelligence Is Preventing Cognitive Overload, Compassion Fatigue And Job Burnout
Organizations are beginning to grasp the severity of burnout and the impact it has on your life and health in the long term. Work can be stressful, and due to many factors including a combination of hours, tasks, measurement and intensity, some jobs result in mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. If stress accumulates to a breaking point, you reach overload, fatigue and ultimately burnout.
Unlock The Value In Improved Cybersecurity Protection
The threat, cost and complexity of cybercrime continues to rise, keeping it on the agenda of the C-suite despite the efforts and investments made to date. According to Accenture research, the average cost of cybercrime was up 11% last year across all industries, to $13 million per year. Since financial
Confirmed: 2 Billion Records Exposed In Massive Smart Home Device Breach
A team of self-styled “hacktivist” security researchers, with an impressive track record of exposing breach after breach as part of a web-mapping project that searches for vulnerabilities within online databases, has disclosed one of the biggest to date. The researchers in question, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor, found
Why Machine Learning Is The Future Of Business Culture
Today ML has the ability to compute vast quantities of data and to collect metrics while developing more intelligent algorithms that will be able to perform complex tasks.
Google Confirms Android Smartphone Security Backdoor
Google has now confirmed that threat actors did, indeed, manage to compromise Android smartphones with the installation of a backdoor as part of a supply chain attack.
The Future Of The Cloud Lies In Analyzing All Those Petabytes
Companies today manage so much data in the cloud, with even hundreds of petabytes not unheard of, that the real challenge has become not how to store massive data in the cloud, but how to most easily, securely and powerfully extract insights from that data at scale.
Using State-Of-The-Art Digital Technologies To Spring Clean Businesses And Create Circular Economies
SAP Industries, the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, is helping companies achieve this using digital technologies.
Microsoft Simplifies And Streamlines IoT With Launch Of Plug And Play
Microsoft – working with a who’s who of industry partners – just launched IoT Plug and Play to drastically simplify and democratize IoT and make it accessible for everyone.
DeepMind’s Mysterious Ethics Board Will Reportedly ‘Control’ AGI If It’s Ever Created
DeepMind and Google signed an agreement drawn up by lawyers in London called the “Ethics and Safety Review Agreement” in the year leading up to the acquisition, according to the report.
Branding vs Marketing: Innovative Solutions In Today’s Digital Marketplace
what is the difference between branding and marketing and which of the two should my company be focusing on? The answer is that they are similar in the sense they are about getting a company noticed, but different implementations of recognition.
