Book Review by Andy Ghillyer The complete reinvention of your business has now become standard operating practice. If you’re developing a five-year strategic plan that doesn’t include some element of reinvention of your core business
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Technology Will Reinvent Our Lives – Here’s How
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer The acceleration of technology continues to outpace the expectations of the smartest futurists and prognosticators. When Intel founder Gordon Moore noticed back in 1965 that the number of transistors on
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7 Ways AI Can Help You Sell More Stuff Right Now
by William Ammerman Artificial intelligence is already a part of daily life, but for business owners, the key question is, “How can AI improve my marketing and help me sell more stuff right now?” Throughout
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Artificial Intelligence Will Disrupt Your Business
Will you be prepared? And, have you thought about how you’ll use it to disrupt your competitors? Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is on the verge of disrupting every domain of human existence. What does that mean
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Digital Resilience – What You Can Do Now
by Ray A. Rothrock In our increasingly digital world, we are all targets of hackers and fraudsters. To survive, we must use some best practices to ensure our resilience. I use the word resilience rather
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Today’s guest blogger is Charles D. Morgan, former CEO of Little-Rock-based Acxiom Corporation, world leader in data gathering and its accompany technology. Today he leads a new tech startup called PrivacyStar. His memoir, Matters of Life
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The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most significant events to shape American history during the first half of the 19th century.
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In a January 2015 New York Times Review of Books essay, critic and magazine editor Leon Wieseltier warned against a post-humanist — after the human — culture in which technological devices and data replace human
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“By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes.
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TAKING ADVANTAGE OF BIG DATA When used car dealer Les Kelley launched the Kelley Blue Book, his target customers were used car dealers (and insurance companies and banks that made car loans). Dealers could consult
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THE SECOND MACHINE AGE A New Era Going Full Steam For most of us, the Industrial Age refers to the late 19th-century explosion of large companies with large factories that fundamentally changed the way we
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Romancing the Brand. It sounds like the sequel to Romancing the Stone, the movie. But actually it’s a new book by author Tim Halloran. Here is how he begins the book. “It wasn’t a particularly
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THE DECODED COMPANY Using Big Data in Human Resources What if companies knew as much about their employees as they knew about their customers? That is the provocative question at the heart of The Decoded
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