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Latest Read: Strategy in the Digital Age

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation by Michael Lenox. Michael is professor of business administration at the University of Virginia. He was also a visiting professor at Oxford University, Harvard University, and Stanford University.

Strategy in the Digital Age: Mastering Digital Transformation by Michael Lenox

Michael holds a Bachelors in systems engineering from University of Virginia, Masters in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Without a doubt, digital transformation is certainly addressing more than just servers to gather and process data. Michael is focusing upon how digital technologies are creating innovative services and products for organizations. However he is accurately able to outline how organizations can establish new competitive advantages.

So, to be successful organizational leaders much understand how to create value. Strategy in the Digital Age is certainly outlining critical needs to address to ensure the larger impacts of a complete roadmap for organizations. Many will ask how do I utilize digital technology to create value and improve our organization?

Michael is even sharing how his role at Virginia allowed for the University to engage in a successful transformation for the School of Business.

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Latest Read: The Deep Learning Revolution

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence Sejnowski. He holds both a Masters and PhD in physics from Princeton University. Today he is a professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory.

The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence Sejnowski

He is also Professor of Biological Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego where he is Director of the Institute for Neural Computation.

Terry was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1991 to 2018. In addition, he founded Neural Computation, a journal in neural networks and computational neuroscience published by the MIT Press. He is also the President of the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation.

In fact, Terry is only one of three living people to have been elected to all four of the national academies: The National Academy of Medicine, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.

So, Terry is sharing his story how deep learning began and is today used in driverless cars to personal assistants. Deep Learning is changing our lives and transforming the world. Deep learning can play poker better than professional poker players and has also defeated a world champion at Go. It should be noted when Google’s Deep Mind defeated Ke Jie, it served as China’s Sputnik moment.

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Latest Read: Chatter

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross. Ethan holds a a PhD in psychology from Columbia University. He is professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan.

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross

In addition, Ethan is the Director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. He is published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.

This is certainly mandatory reading. The praise attributed to Ethan’s effort is far and wide. And worth every endorsement. Within the opening chapters you will learn why so many have made critical praise to Ethan’s research. He warns that giving in to negative self-talk (what Ethan defines as Chatter) will certainly tank our health, alter our moods, place strain on our connections both at work and at home. Ultimately Chatter will cause us to fold under pressure.

In fact, Ethan is delivering his message in plain english. Actually I really enjoyed his little league baseball bat story. We all have a voice in our head. And yes, we all talk to ourselves. More often than not we find our inner critic. Ethan expands upon the silent conversations we have within ourselves. So, within the opening chapter we begin to understand why we talk to ourselves.

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Latest Read: Cyber Crisis

Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World by Eric Cole. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology and PhD in Information Technology from Pace University.

Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World by Eric Cole

Eric is the founder and CEO of Secure Anchor Consulting and today is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

He began his career as Program Manager & Technical Director for the CIA. His career moved to cybersecurity leadership roles at several companies including his role as Chief Scientist & Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin.

For over ten years he held leadership positions at SANS including Dean of Faculty and Director of Research; Architecture Director of Cyber Defense Curriculum. He has been interviewed on CNN, Fox, CBS, and NBC. In fact, Eric was one of the authors of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s cybersecurity guide.

The world we live in today post pandemic is different. Most do not realize the ground has shifted under their feet. Eric is simply addressing that while you may read about major cybersecurity attacks perhaps five times a year. However the stories shared certainly indicate attacks are happening every day. Since the pandemic, ransomware attack are occurring every ten minutes.

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Latest Read: Customer Data and Privacy

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. HBR is providing a good series of article addressing how your data is collected and the impact upon your privacy.

Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review, Timothy Morey, Andrew Burt, Christine Moorman, Thomas C. Redman

For some, this may be rather jarring. Nevertheless, how did Facebook generate $116 Billion in revenue in 2022? Accordingly the sale of ads on Facebook is…. you. Yes, in fact you are what Facebook is selling.

It would also be fair to understand the role of Machine Learning coupled with Data Science that created this revenue stream. Facebook is collecting every ‘Like’ you make, every photo uploaded is scanned with facial recognition and every article posted is data mined.

Add this all up and Facebook is literally sitting on overwhelmingly vast amounts of user data. To their credit, Facebook has become the champion of mining profits from all the data they have about you.

Yet are these companies also building trust with you? They know everything about you, and when combined with ‘free’ apps, the tracking continues. We are aware of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Yet for everyone not living in California, there is a real lack of regulation. This allows companies to remain in control of you.

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