For most of the 20th century, size, longevity, and a large market share were seen as assets in business. Then they began to be viewed as vulnerabilities, putting many companies in a defensive stance. Successful incumbents, however, convert these traits into market power, lasting relationships, and deep insights and use
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Cloud Security: User Must Understand The Risks Involved And Implement Adequate Security Controls
Protecting data and applications in the cloud involves managing people, processes and technology with stringent policies. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of organizations migrating to the cloud due to its excellent reliability, scalability and reduced costs. Cloud security plays a key role in this transition and
Cybersecurity Regulations: Companies Should Understand The Kinds Of Regulations That Are Presently Being Considered, Discover The Uncertainties And Potential Impacts, And Prepare To Act
A whole suite of new cybersecurity regulations and enforcement are in the offing, both at the state and federal level in the U.S. and around the world. Companies don’t need to just sit by and wait for the rules to be written and then implemented, however. Rather, they need to
A Study: Understand Why And How Platform Business Fails
Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. The problem is that platforms fail at an alarming rate. By identifying the sources of failure, managers can avoid the obvious mistakes. To understand why and how platforms fail, we tried to identify as many failed
Why AI Engineers Need To Understand The Contexts Of Their Technologies Are Being Developed
It is very, very easy for a well-intentioned AI practitioner to inadvertently do harm when they set out to do good – AI has the power to amplify unfair biases, making innate biases exponentially more harmful. Because AI often interacts with complex social systems, where correlation and causation might not
Does Your Company Management Understand Cyber Risks?
Over the past decade, business leaders have had to face an uncomfortable truth: It’s become impossible to sit at the head of a company and not address the threat of cyber risk. Cyber-attacks are increasingly pervasive and can present near existential threats to companies, and boards of directors and CEOs
Conversational Pattern Of AI – Machines That Can Understand Human Speech
Early on in the evolution of artificial intelligence, researchers realized the power and possibility of machines that are able to understand the meaning and nuances of human speech. Conversation and human language is a particularly challenging area for computers, since words and communication is not precise. Human language is filled with nuance, context, cultural and societal depth, and imprecision that can lead to a wide range of interpretations. If computers can understand what we mean when we talk, and then communicate back to us in a way we can understand, then clearly we’ve accomplished a goal of artificial intelligence.
