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Latest Read: The Future of Work

The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review.

The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Published in 2021 this HBR series is a collection of published articles from authors addressing how AI is impacting work, how organizations can address a fundamental change to workflows, and how employees can thrive in the age of AI.

The most overlooked element addressed it an organization’s downstream impact upon their workforce. Impacted by the pandemic, the accelerating change of digital transformations is changing. Global social justice movements also changed the idea of ‘work’ across the globe. As a result, organizations must adopt new flexible work arraignments.

However success will be organizational shifts to address an inclusive workforce that can result in stronger relationships to their employees. Multiple authors acknowledge how the pandemic changed the depth of relationships between organizational leaders and their employees.

However the key factor of success will be organizational shifts to address an inclusive workforce that can result in stronger relationships to their employees. Multiple authors acknowledge how the pandemic changed the depth of relationships between organizational leaders and their employees.

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Latest Read: HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI by Harvard Business Review. If you read nothing else on AI and machine learning, start here.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI by Harvard Business Review

This new release (September 2023) is certainly providing the most insightful articles by Tom Davenport, Marco Iansiti, Tsedal Neeley, and Ajay Agrawal. Each article is presented with three ideas: Problem, Causes, and Solutions.

The collected insights provided a cornerstone for understanding AI and the methods to deploy across any organization.

Perhaps ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI by Ethan Mollick is a perfect article to convey how this service, less than 18th months old is this generation’s Netscape Navigator killer app.

The most important lesson: several articles have been expanded into published books that I find to be must reads. Organizations must digest their writing in order to fully understand the current world of AI.

To that end, today’s highly connected internet is much more robust than it was 30 years ago when the browser appeared and forever changed the world. But threats by foreign countries and organizations that push misinformation will confuse many. That is the difference to Netscape’s introduction.

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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.