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Latest Read: Artificial Intelligence in Practice:

Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems by Bernard Marr. He holds degrees in business, engineering and information technology from the University of Cambridge and Cranfield School of Management.

Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems by Bernard Marr

Today, Bernard also enjoys teaching for Oxford University, Warwick Business School, the Irish Management Institute, and the and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is also a contributor to Forbes. Bernard is focusing on strategy, business performance, digital transformations, and AI.

He has certainly advised many of the world’s most recognized brands including: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, The Bank of England, BP, NVIDIA, Cisco, DHL, IBM, HPE, Ericsson, Jaguar Land Rover, Mars, The Ministry of Defense, NATO, The Home Office, NHS, Oracle, T-Mobile, Toyota, The Royal Air Force, Shell, The United Nations, Walgreens, and Walmart.

Bernard has written 20 books having been recognized with the 2022 Business Book of the Year award, the CMI Management Book of the Year award, the Axiom book award and the WHSmith best business book award. I enjoyed reading one of his previous books, Big Data: Using smart big data analytics and metrics to make better decisions and improve performance.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are continuing to be cited as the most important trend in society today. However, rather than list where AI is deployed, it would be more important to understand how AI was deployed. Bernard is providing comprehensive overviews, including technical details as key learning summaries for each case study.

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Latest Read: Competing in the Age of AI

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

Marco Iansiti is Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is a co-director of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS. Marco holds a PhD and an AB in Physics from Harvard. He is an advisor at KeystoneAI.

Karim R. Lakhani is a Business Administration Professor at Harvard Business School. He is co-director of the Laboratory of Innovation Science at Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science. He is Chair of the Harvard Business School’s Analytics Program. Karim holds bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University, a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT and a PhD in management from the MIT. He previously served as a Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

This is certainly one of the better books addressing AI and business innovation. A must read for any organization now confronting AI challenges regardless of their respective markets. In industry after industry, the core elements of data, analytics, and AI-driven processes have certainly transformed business.

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Latest Read: Robot-Proof

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun. He holds a masters in Oriental Languages and Literature at the Université Saint-Joseph and a PhD in Linguistics at MIT. He joined the University of Southern California in 1982 as a Linguistics Professor. Currently he is serving as the 7th president of Northeastern University.

Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun

The automation of jobs was certainly a threat to low-skilled workers in the 1980s. Today the advancement of Artificial Intelligence is certainly empowering systems and robots to confront knowledge workers in traditionally highly-skilled jobs with the same threat. In fact, this includes jobs that focused on high tech skills including interpreting medical images, legal research, and analyzing data.

So, how can higher education prepare students for a career as Artificial Intelligence is surging across markets? Dr. Aoun is advancing the idea that a way to educate current college students is to invent, create, and discover needs across society that Artificial Intelligence cannot currently address.

Therefore, he is introducing a position to create a mindset that he called humanics. This framework builds upon education models that prepare students to enter a workforce with robots and smart machines working alongside them. This includes computer literacy

Accordingly, he points to the development of IBM Watson in cancer research. This provided oncologists with faster diagnosis and efficient treatment plans. Then Watson moved from hospitals to the New York City Public School system. Watson has been advising teachers on effective teaching practices based upon Artificial Intelligence.

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Latest Read: Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. Matthew is a sociologist at Princeton University. He is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Matthew’s first book Evicted was the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner. In addition, Time Magazine named Evicted one of the ten best nonfiction books of the decade. So, can lightning strike twice?

Matthew’s follow up book just might as he provides fresh insights into how society actually thinks about a morally urgent issue. Yet, he is also indicating solutions are available without raising taxes.

This is not about the war on poverty or welfare reform, but simply a book addressing how poverty somehow persists in the richest nation on earth. Long story short: because the rest of us benefit from it.

Matthew’s insights are data driven and so he asks why. Why are 1 in every 8 children in fact going without basic necessities, why are citizens homeless, and why can corporations pay poverty wages? In addition, Matthew is providing updated statistics the really resonate in a post COVID-19 world.

In fact, throughout our history, the US Congress has raised the minimum wage 22 times. The current level — $7.25 an hour was established in 2009. Wow that was 14 years ago.

There are certainly key factors that perpetuate poverty and economic disparity. Matthew points out how the government gives so many benefits and subsidies to the wealthy. This directly undermines the poor.

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Latest Read: The New Normal in IT

The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever by Gregory S. Smith. Gregory is CIO for the American Kidney Fund and previously served in the same role for Pew Charitable Trusts and the World Wildlife Fund.

The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever by Gregory S. Smith

He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a former adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. The New Normal in IT is part of Wiley’s CIO Series.

The pandemic certainly changed everything. The information technology industry was no exception. The downstream impacts placed tremendous pressure on IT teams to maintain service delivery as the world went home and Zoom entered our lexicon.

Reflecting upon this move away from the office, how have IT leaders communicated the change necessary now and moving forward? Change is indeed hard.

We all witnessed the fundamental shift regarding remote work. From optional to mandatory over the next 18 months. How many organizations scrambled like mad to secure and deploy to every employee a laptop?

Can you recall the immediate infrastructure upgrades stood up in weeks versus months? IT faced many critical challenges starting in March 2020. Yet, our IT infrastructure teams kept delivering in those early weeks in order to keep their organization alive and employees functioning.

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