Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? (▻https://www.nb...
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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? | #poverty #anxiety #stress #energy #mentalhealth #insecurity #productivity
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I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
▻https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-looked-at-all-the-ways-microsoft-teams-tracks-users-and-my-head-is-spinningMicrosoft Teams isn’t just there to make employees’ lives easier. It’s also there to give bosses data about so many things. My head is recovering from something of a pivot. You see, a couple of weeks ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared, in an interview with the Financial Times, that Teams could soon be a digital platform as important as the internet browser. Yes, Microsoft Teams. This startled me a touch. The world seems to have moved rather quickly of late. I thought of all those (...)
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Sous pression, Microsoft rétropédale sur son logiciel de surveillance des salariés
▻https://korii.slate.fr/tech/microsoft-retropedale-controverse-logiciel-surveillance-espionnage-salarLe score de productivité ne pourra plus être utilisé de manière individuelle. À peine quelques semaines après avoir lancé son outil pour mesurer la productivité des salariés (on vous en avait parlé pas plus tard que le 1er décembre), Microsoft fait marche arrière et apporte plusieurs changements à son score de productivité intégré aux logiciels et applications Microsoft 365. Sur son site officiel, la firme américaine annonce qu’elle va procéder à des modifications concernant les données privées, premier (...)
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Microsoft waters down ’productivity score’ surveillance tool after backlash
▻https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-365-productivity-score-workplace-surveillance-backlash/?europe=trueEven in a world of ever-increasing employee tracking, Microsoft knows it went too far. The company announced Tuesday that, following widespread backlash, it will scale back recently announced additions to its suite of Microsoft 365 products. They let employers track employees’ digital actions in granular detail under the guise of workplace efficiency. Dubbed “Productivity Score,” the tool was announced via blog post in October, but gained notoriety in late November when Wolfie Christl, a (...)
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Microsoft’s New ‘Productivity Score’ Lets Your Boss Monitor How Often You Use Email And Attend Video Meetings
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/11/25/microsofts-new-productivity-score-lets-your-boss-monitor-how-often-you-use-email-and-attend-video-meetings/?sh=2a82f4801a46At Microsoft’s MSFT +1% annual Ignite conference in October, the company previewed a slick new tool called Productivity Score. During the virtual presentation, a senior product manager said the feature provides “insights that transform how work gets done” by showing employers how workers use Microsoft 365 services like Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive. Productivity Score officially launched less than a month later to little fanfare, but a closer look at what data Microsoft lets (...)
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enaible Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the April 2020 Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management: Modernizing the Workplace With AI and Video | Business Wire
▻https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200514005508/en/enaible-Named-Cool-Vendor-Gartner-April-2020La surveillance au travail est considérée comme “Cool” par le gartner Group. On avance, on avance...
Company’s AI software provides business leaders with real-time visibility into the productivity of their workforce to help organizations improve profit margins for hours paid
May 14, 2020 09:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time
BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)—enaible, a leading provider of AI-powered productivity solutions, today announced it has been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management: Modernizing the Workplace With AI and Video1 report. According to the report, “Artificial intelligence, self-curated video and digital collaboration tools are modernizing the workplace. Application leaders transforming human capital management must promote the adoption of these tools in order to improve productivity and organizational performance.” 1@enaibleinc named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in HCM: Modernizing the Workplace With #AI and Video report
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As today’s workforce is increasingly remote, the need for business leaders to effectively and accurately measure employee productivity and maximize profit margins has never been greater. According to Gartner, “application leaders responsible for transforming HCM technology should: Use AI tools to analyze, identify and influence how leaders combine a number of the productivity factors to increase team performance.” The report further states, “organizations continually strive to improve productivity and employee performance at lower cost.”enaible’s AI Productivity Platform provides a standardized productivity score, determines optimal work patterns, and identifies which factors will most positively impact team productivity growth. It helps companies eliminate wasted time to improve productivity and margins across the organization.
enaible’s platform offers the following features and benefits:
enaible Productivity Score: uses an organization’s existing system data (i.e. ERP, CRM, Office 365) to quantify productivity at the company and team level through a combination of capacity utilization, consistency and quality impact.
AI Trigger-Task-Time™: algorithm captures the complexity of individual, nuanced work activities and identifies the unique patterns across different roles, departments and tasks that help each employee use the hours worked, productively.
Leadership Recommender™: provides ongoing support and actionable recommendations for leaders so they can drive day-to-day impact. Rather than providing broad sweeping tips, enaible makes personalized, prioritized recommendations to strengthen their business and encourage workers to thrive, no matter where they are based.
“Poor management costs the U.S. economy nearly $400 billion in lost productivity each year. This is largely because companies don’t have visibility into how their workforce is actually working—enaible makes this visible,” said Dr. Tommy Weir, founder and CEO of enaible. “Our AI helps companies get value from their real-time data by pinpointing areas for improvement, making productivity tangible and customizing recommendations to improve margins and help their workers thrive. We believe that being recognized in the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management: Modernizing the Workplace With AI and Video report is reflective of the changing priority and rethinking around workforce productivity beyond just tracking and monitoring.”To download the full Gartner Cool Vendors in HCM Report: Modernizing the Workplace With AI and Video, visit ▻http://enaible-7081487.hs-sites.com/enaible-blog-0-0.
To schedule a demo with enaible, please contact demo@enaible.io.
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This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score” | MIT Technology Review
▻https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/04/1002671/startup-ai-workers-productivity-score-bias-machine-learning-busineDire qu’il y a des naïfs pour croire que le crédit social est uniquement chinois... surveiller et noter les travailleurs, c’est le nouveau modèle du capitalisme international, en Chine comme ailleurs, en télétravail comme dans les locaux de l’entreprise. Et ça va vite, vite...
In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be out of sight of managers, but they are not out of mind. The upheaval has been accompanied by a reported spike in the use of surveillance software that lets employers track what their employees are doing and how long they spend doing it.
Companies have asked remote workers to install a whole range of such tools. Hubstaff is software that records users’ keyboard strokes, mouse movements, and the websites that they visit. Time Doctor goes further, taking videos of users’ screens. It can also take a picture via webcam every 10 minutes to check that employees are at their computer. And Isaak, a tool made by UK firm Status Today, monitors interactions between employees to identify who collaborates more, combining this data with information from personnel files to identify individuals who are “change-makers.”
Now, one firm wants to take things even further. It is developing machine-learning software to measure how quickly employees complete different tasks and suggest ways to speed them up. The tool also gives each person a productivity score, which managers can use to identify those employees who are most worth retaining—and those who are not.
How you feel about this will depend on how you view the covenant between employer and employee. Is it okay to be spied on by people because they pay you? Do you owe it to your employer to be as productive as possible, above all else?
Critics argue that workplace surveillance undermines trust and damages morale. Workers’ rights groups say that such systems should only be installed after consulting employees. “It can create a massive power imbalance between workers and the management,” says Cori Crider, a UK-based lawyer and cofounder of Foxglove, a nonprofit legal firm that works to stop governments and big companies from misusing technology. “And the workers have less ability to hold management to account.”
Whatever your views, this kind of software is here to stay—in part because remote work is normalizing it. “I think workplace monitoring is going to become mainstream,” says Tommy Weir, CEO of Enaible, the startup based in Boston that is developing the new monitoring software. “In the next six to 12 months it will become so pervasive it disappears.”
Weir thinks most tools on the market don’t go far enough. “Imagine you’re managing somebody and you could stand and watch them all day long, and give them recommendations on how to do their job better,” says Weir. “That’s what we’re trying to do. That’s what we’ve built.”
Why the sudden uptick in interest? “Bosses have been seeking to wring every last drop of productivity and labor out of their workers since before computers,” says Crider. “But the granularity of the surveillance now available is like nothing we’ve ever seen.”
It’s no surprise that this level of detail is attractive to employers, especially those looking to keep tabs on a newly remote workforce. But Enaible’s software, which it calls the AI Productivity Platform, goes beyond tracking things like email, Slack, Zoom, or web searches. None of that shows a full picture of what a worker is doing, says Weir—it’s just checking if you are working or not.
Once set up, the software runs in the background all the time, monitoring whatever data trail a company can provide for each of its employees. Using an algorithm called Trigger-Task-Time, the system learns the typical workflow for different workers: what triggers, such as an email or a phone call, lead to what tasks and how long those tasks take to complete.
Once it has learned a typical pattern of behavior for an employee, the software gives that person a “productivity score” between 0 and 100. The AI is agnostic to tasks, says Weir. In theory, workers across a company can still be compared by their scores even if they do different jobs. A productivity score also reflects how your work increases or decreases the productivity of other people on your team. There are obvious limitations to this approach. The system works best with employees who do a lot of repetitive tasks in places like call centers or customer service departments rather than those in more complex or creative roles.
But the idea is that managers can use these scores to see how their employees are getting on, rewarding them if they get quicker at doing their job or checking in with them if performance slips. To help them, Enaible’s software also includes an algorithm called Leadership Recommender, which identifies specific points in an employee’s workflow that could be made more efficient.
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How I configure VSCode for Everything
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-i-configure-vscode-for-everything-7df65a316a52?source=rss----3a8144eCredits: Unsplash/Joshua AragonRecently, I was at the Boryspil Airport, Ukraine, working on a blog article when suddenly my VSCode stops working. It actually got crashed! Not once, but twice under 30 minutes. Some of the content was autosaved, some of it was gone forever…I was frustrated at first as to why it had to crash at that moment! Next, after re-opening the editor, I was angry with myself for I had to write some of the stuff again that didn’t get saved.Also, at times, previous this experience, it did feel that I have bloat of extensions that I am not using since I have stopped working with some of the frameworks in recent months (example, Angular).What did I do? After none of the emotions helped, I had to find a way to cope better. On a network that was not so crappy, but did have (...)
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Your browser has failed you
▻https://hackernoon.com/your-browser-has-failed-you-9f69c70368fc?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4… and extensions won’t ease the pain.Browsers have evolved to become the central way we do pretty much anything: shopping, scheduling, invoicing, monitoring, calling, texting, reading, watching, listening, writing, sharing: you name it. Along the way, as billions of people were shifting to the browser as their main #work tool, it started to show some weaknesses.At Station, our sole & only focus is to ease our user’s workday. As part of that, we’re trying to identify the small defects in the browser that could help us refine our product.We quickly realised that one of the best way to identify potential improvements in modern #browsers is by looking at their most popular extensions. After all, if so many people are proactively choosing to add a third party component to their main work tool, (...)
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Things You Should Know Before You Start Learning to Code
▻https://hackernoon.com/things-you-should-know-before-you-start-learning-to-code-a7255f3d6925?soMan walking up stairsThousands of people start learning to code every day, but the majority of them quit after a while.To be a software engineer, you do not need a CS degree, but learning by yourself is harder. You have to go through lots of mental challenges.Our body always wants to stay in its comfort zone, but learning new skills — especially coding — frequently puts us in uncomfortable situations. It makes it harder to focus and you’ll want to stick to easier things that you’re good at.That is why consistency is important until you make yourself comfortable with the new skill. I’ve been trying to learn to code for a few years, and I think there are a few issues everyone faces when learning to code for the first time that I’d like to address1. Do not start learning without a clear goal.It is (...)
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Tagging your entire knowledge Base
▻https://hackernoon.com/tagging-your-entire-knowledge-base-80ce02c00daf?source=rss----3a8144eabfWhat has worked for us in the past is a treasure trove that we are not leveraging enoughDéjà vuI am trying to do something. I broadly know how to do it but I don’t know the exact details. I search for it on Google. Google is a very big name today because it lets you get access to relevant information very fast. But however there is one issue with Google search. There is too much of content. I call this content overload. For example let us say when I search “What is blockchain”, there are about 22,00,00,000 results that are available. How do I know what is good? I really don’t.But Google does a good job at showing the best results at the top. In fact a very good job at it and that is the reason Google has a market cap of 847 Billion USD. But still I am not happy many times as I can’t figure (...)
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How I am Automating My #productivity with This Smart Home Setup
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-i-am-automating-my-productivity-with-this-smart-home-setup-662bc7bc7Automating Personal Productivity With This Smart Home ComboHave you ever used timers to enhance your workflow? I have. Setting time boundaries works for me quite well but managing timers is not that pleasant.It was the case until I found a much better way to support my productivity with a home #automation setup!This post is a part of series where I’m sharing my experience about building great habits around coding, productivity, focus, journaling, health and many more using time boundaries. You can check them out to steal my experience.Worth notingMost of the time I work from home. Use my experience as a source of inspiration to adapt it for your personal workflow. It’s not a step by step instruction. It’s a publicly shared usecase with some open sourced code.TL;DRTo manage my Pomodoro (...)
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Hot Product Managers vs. Cool Product Managers
▻https://hackernoon.com/hot-product-managers-vs-cool-product-managers-a90e0f6c9ebe?source=rss---About Product Management, stakeholders and other demonsPhoto by Devin Avery on UnsplashIn McLuhan’s most relevant book “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”, he proposes a way to categorise media according to various sensory effects associated with the media.This idea is not hard to extrapolate to other scenarios. Let’s think of #communication as a whole and a concrete example: the communication between Product Managers and their peers.How many times we’ve seen a Product Manager that communicates a feature request with all their details already preconceived, a manager that goes to their designers knowing and already mind-seeing what everything should look like?Many times.Now, how often we’ve seen the other face of the coin? Stakeholders with really poor descriptions of an idea, or with an (...)
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Lifescale: The Antidote to Our Tech Addicted, Digitally Distracted Lifestyle
▻https://hackernoon.com/lifescale-the-antidote-to-our-tech-addicted-digitally-distracted-lifestyIf you’re already a Brian Solis reader, get ready for a surprising turn. And if you’ve never read a Solis book before, his eighth and latest is the one to start with. Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life launched at SXSW in Austin last month, and it promises to help us wake up from our tech-addicted comas and rediscover creative, empowered lives.Solis is principal analyst at Altimeter, the digital research group of Prophet. He’s spent his last seven books analyzing the impact of disruptive technology on business, markets and society.Now, he’s turned his research powers in a different direction. Lifescale asks what happened to our attention spans and creative capacities, when we, as humans, were disrupted by “disruptive technology.” More so, he ventures on a (...)
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10 Shortcuts Web Developers Use to Get Results in Record Time
▻https://hackernoon.com/10-shortcuts-web-developers-use-to-get-results-in-record-time-a101f22c89Full Stack DeveloperIn this blog, I have listed new ideas that smart web developers use in order to code in a magical way. These ideas help them to code their programs in easier as well as quicker ways.Ultimately, it results in the faster completion of a web project and software businessmen can better know the value of this quick completion.So, here is the list:Avoiding online inspiration.Collaborating with others.Trying at least one thing differentThinking outside the boxCursor movement shortcutsGeneric windows shortcutsIDE ShortcutsBrowser shortcutsLet’s have a deep look at all these innovative ideas that a smart web #developer uses:1. AVOIDING ONLINE INSPIRATIONSmart web developers use strategies in order to create the best output in the least time with least efforts. These strategies (...)
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How Does A Successful Product Manager Think & Act ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-does-a-successful-product-manager-think-act-e462d6023358?source=rss-How Does A Successful Product Manager Think & Act ?Any Product as an idea comes into existence and grows over the period of time, it is the product manager who ensure it is evolving, growing in right direction and is sustainable over a longer period of time.Product Manager’s Mindset : How They Think & Work:Have you ever imagined what goes inside product manager’s mind, how s/he thinks while s/he is preparing to take up the challenge of building a product among all the uncertainties and chaos.So let me help you decode the product manager mindset based on my past experiences as a product leader.1. They Start With Why ?The first and foremost priority of a product manager is to understand the why of the product .Why this product even exist? Without getting the answer for this question s/he (...)
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#wps_office for Linux Update Available to Download
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/wps-office-for-linux-just-got-an-updateA new version of WPS Office, free office software that looks like Microsoft Office, is available to download for Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.
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How Failing With #pomodoro Technique Made Me 2x Better Programmer
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-failing-with-pomodoro-technique-made-me-2x-better-programmer-aaa72a6My first attempts to make the Pomodoro Technique work for me were quite a struggle. But that taught me a lot! And eventually led to building great habits around coding, journaling, eating healthier and many-many more. Surprisingly, Pomodoro even muscled me up! These are the topics I am covering in my Pomodoro Series. You can check them out to steal my experience.For now I am going to share my first experience following the Pomodoro Technique. And in the beginning it was not great. At all.My shortened list of struggles with PomodoroStruggle to stopThe main problem was to stop whatever I was doing. «Hey, I’m in the middle of something! How on Earth should I make a break if I am trying to focus?». It did not feel right to take a break while being in the middle of doing something. The break was (...)
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#1 — From Ideation to Landing Page
▻https://hackernoon.com/1-from-ideation-to-landing-page-9cf690afba32?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3-From Ideation to Landing Page, how we came up with AchievedHello everyone, ?,We started our journey 4 weeks ago, and thought it was time to share what has happened to us, and what we have learned, with you all.Before jumping in, you may want to read again our manifesto.TL;DRAchieved helps everyone in the organisation. From colleagues engagement to strategic decision making. We help everyone to focus on what matter most, align on their activities, get challenged and supported with the ideal level of social engagement.As tech enthusiasts, we’re aiming at designing a simple solution to handle individual #productivity and team alignment. We wanted this tool to be simple, delightful and interactive; but we also wanted it to be asynchronous so that people could be caught up in on their own (...)
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How I got my first 1,000 visitors in a month
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-i-got-my-first-1-000-visitors-in-a-month-77f0810994d3?source=rss----In my previous blog, I explained all the steps the team went through before we created our landing page. Since our first idea validation round was very positive, it was time for us to get validation from people outside our network.Achieved — Page ViewsThanks to our efforts, we managed to attract 1,000 unique visitors in a month and converted 10% of them into potential beta testers.To be honest, this has been to most exciting and challenging phase so far. I had to start from a blank page with a major difficulty: to not disclose our real name and use an alias — Mister Hat.body[data-twttr-rendered="true"] background-color: transparent;.twitter-tweet margin: auto !important;@Achievedai @quuu_co I definitely like the idea of being able to easily and clearly celebrate and recognise achievements every (...)
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8 Golden Tweaks for 21st Century Entrepreneurs that Work from Home
▻https://hackernoon.com/8-golden-tweaks-for-21st-century-entrepreneurs-that-work-from-home-46a7dPhoto Credit: PixabayIt’s not surprising that more people are leaving the 9–5 routine behind to pursue their passion. A team of researchers revealed that 70% of professionals work remotely at least once a week. What started as a hobby for many college students later became a full-fledged business venture.Anyone can work remotely thanks to the internet and the latest technological tools. You don’t have to pay for office rent or waste time commuting to an office. Despite this, staying motivated and productive can be nearly impossible.The path to becoming a successful home-based entrepreneur is lonely and daunting. It will be difficult to get yourself out of the bed most mornings to work towards your goals.These tips will come in handy regardless of the stage you are in your entrepreneurial (...)
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6 #habits to Stay Focused at Your Computer
▻https://hackernoon.com/6-habits-to-stay-focused-at-your-computer-905c24ef62e3?source=rss----3a8We live in an age of distraction. Smart phones, the internet, and a wealth of instant communication tools are constantly vying for our attention and making it harder than ever to stay focused for long periods of time. Long periods of deep #focus, however, are incredibly valuable.Using my time more productively is a skill I’m actively trying to develop. It’s not easy, especially while working at a computer all day where so many distractions are readily available. Here are some specifics habits I’ve developed that have been improving my ability to stay focused.0. Forgive yourselfMost of the products you interact with on your phone and browser are explicitly designed to get you hooked. So forgive yourself for being so readily distracted. It’s not a failure of your will-power, it’s just human (...)
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Stop Saying You’re Busy. Here’s How To Manage Your Time And Get More Done
▻https://hackernoon.com/stop-saying-youre-busy-here-s-how-to-manage-your-time-and-get-more-done-Whether you’re talking to a colleague, a close friend, or even a perfect stranger, the conversation often is the same.“How’s it going?” “Good! Just busy.”This refrain is the default for so many people in our personal and professional circles.However, busyness shouldn’t be viewed as a status symbol — it doesn’t make us happier, and it doesn’t make us more productive. It often means we are just misusing our time.Years ago, in one of our quarterly offsite meetings, a leadership team member told our facilitator, “I just don’t have enough time.” The facilitator looked at her, then at all of us, and said, “As a leader, ‘not enough time’ is an excuse you all must take out of your vocabulary. If you are waiting for all this free time to come, it’s never going to happen. It’s about what you prioritize and how you (...)
#productivity-hacks #work #habit-building #time-management #productivity
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7 Things You Should Know about #vim
▻https://hackernoon.com/7-things-you-should-know-about-vim-a8493847b642?source=rss----3a8144eabfIn this article I’d like to explore some of the things that most people don’t know about Vim. From the reasons why it was developed the way it is, to some of the great hidden features you’re probably not using (yet).1 — The original movement keys (h, j, k, l) have a reason to beAt first, it seems random. Why do we use the original keys instead of the arrow keys? In 1976, Vi was created by Bill Joy. Bill used an ADM-3A terminal to develop Vi. The thing is, the ADM-3A keyboard doesn’t have arrow keys. So h, j, k, and l were used as the movement keys.The ADM-3A keyboardAlso, notice that the <ESC> key was located where we normally have the <CAPS LOCK> key. This happy coincidence made possible navigation between modes and inside files without moving our hand from the home row. This is one (...)
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Three Pillars of AI That Every CEO Needs to Know Today
▻https://hackernoon.com/three-pillars-of-ai-that-every-ceo-needs-to-know-today-2fc06486c2e5?sourWhat do Babylon Health, WeWork and Netflix have in common? Three seemingly unrelated companies, working in three different industries. Healthcare, Real Estate and Entertainment. Not much to connect them, except they’re all using data to become extraordinarily profitable.They’re among the best examples of data-driven businesses, and they’re all reaping the rewards today. Forrester says that data-driven companies are growing 8x global GDP. This article sets the scene for you to become part of that group.In my mind, there are three areas that companies should focus on to become data-driven: #productivity, Prediction and Personalisation. Applicable across industries, these three pillars should be front of mind for any CEO that wants to be more profitable.Babylon Health know more about (...)
#artificial-intelligence #predictions #personalization #business
