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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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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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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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Hiring Data Scientists from Outside the U.S.: A Primer on Visas

Harvard Business

It’s no secret that there’s a shortage of data scientists in America’s workforce. Many companies look to hire overseas to help ease the domestic talent shortfall (in fact, one in three data scientists are born outside the U.S. ) so understanding the ins and outs of visas is rapidly becoming a business necessity.

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

Tom Spencer

Health care: Not only is AI making it possible for people to use personal health monitoring devices and gain real time access to electronic health records but AI is also augmenting the skills and expertise of trained medical doctors by providing health data and insights in a range of areas including oncology and medical imaging.

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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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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business

During her training years ago, there would have been a handful of therapy options to consider. This could include specialized staff, such as nurses and junior doctors trained to research and identify clinical trials and therapy options, as well as technology that can automate the search process much as has been done with legal discovery.