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Technology is Changing Unexpected jobs

Martinka Consulting

Can you think of many industries not affected by technology? I mention this because of a Wall Street Journal article from last year titled, “ Technology Spells End Of Roughneck Boom. ” It seems automation and artificial intelligence are replacing high-paying blue-collar jobs in the oil drilling industry. Keep moving.”

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How RPA, NLP and ML will create the virtual workforce of tomorrow

Tom Spencer

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. Machine learning is technology, or a set of algorithms, that allows you to continually learn from data and make predictions. Enter machine learning (ML).

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

Retail is littered with promising technologies introduced with great fanfare that didn’t become mainstream because they didn’t sufficiently benefit either the retailer or the customer. So before adopting any technology, retailers must answer two questions: How does this benefit us? And will consumers like it? Self-Checkout.

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Your Consulting Niche vs Jack-of-All-Trades Myth

Successful Independent Consulting

Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. What was the industry? Then synthesize it into a “tag line” for your LinkedIn profile, email signature, résumé/bio, and business card.

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8 Ways Brands Can Fight Counterfeits in China

Harvard Business

Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. QR and RFID schemes can use blockchain technology to prevent fraud and counterfeiting. In order to improve product safety, China’s pharmaceutical, alcohol, and food industries already use QR codes and RFID tags to track products as they move from factory to consumer.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technologytag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.