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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. Flat screen devices that render two-dimensional data for use in a three-dimensional world can be used to increase a user’s access to information and analytics. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

How many times have you had to watch your company’s latest cybersecurity training video? An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Are we impossible to train? Are the hackers always one step ahead?

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Breaking Down Data Silos

Harvard Business

Predictive analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, bots. The waves of advances in the application of data keep on coming. The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. There is a cost to using data.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

To help solve this problem, organizations are using digital technologies and data analytics to improve leak detection. People: Good leaders know that using and interpreting data is not only a search for insights; it’s also about enlisting the hearts and minds of the people who must act on those insights. As one U.S.

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The Fight of The Two R’s: Robots v Redundancy

Tom Spencer

This has not only reduced the need for checkout operators but who now packs the bags? This begs the question, why do we favour productivity and efficiency if the new technology is simultaneously kicking workers out of jobs and diminishing the user experience? Artificial intelligence is already having an impact in our daily lives.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. These services focused on business management and information technology.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.