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

Tom Spencer

While robots were predicted and have led to significant productivity gains, there are at the same time a number of drawbacks (Taylor, 2019). 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? Image: Pexels.

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. So proposed solutions tend to involve reforming education and worker training programs. In the 1980s, for instance, organizations could train their typists in word processing or keep some typist positions open.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. They may try to game the systems with fraudulent data and activities.

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The Brattle Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Product liability. As an RA, you will build your knowledge and skills through both hands-on and formal training. How did you validate assumptions and/or data? Associates come from a wide range of academic backgrounds, from PhDs in economics, finance, or engineering, to MBAs, to those with other relevant graduate level training.

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