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How to Become a Go-To Person Within a Consulting Firm

Steve Shu Consulting

Play a key role in developing new intellectual property or approaches for the firm. For one firm I worked for, I came up with “standard” framework approach for doing business plan analyses for municipal wireless deployments. My team also created an approach for doing wireless spectrum valuation.

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Meet "OSHbot" Lowes New Store Helper; Goodbye Retail Associates, Hello Robots

MishTalk

Meet "OSHbot" OSHbot is the newest member of the " Fellow Robots " family, and developed in partnership with Lowes Innovation Labs. OSHbot Articles The Wall Street Journal reports Newest Workers for Lowe’s: Robots The LA Times says Robot sales clerk? Not even the most knowledgeable human clerk can do that. It''s well worth a play.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use throughout the web and increasingly within the enterprise, handling everything from initial call screening for sales prospects to scheduling. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer. Architects and developers have been talking about APIs and orchestration for decades.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business

Working parenthood in and of itself presents a massive logistical and emotional challenge, and when your child is unwell, that challenge ramps up significantly: How do you explain to your boss that you can’t make it to the big sales meeting? Cancel the monthly sales trip? Take turns with your partner covering at home?

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3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

Harvard Business

CAMP3 is a 26-person company, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, that deploys and manages wireless sensor networks for agriculture. CAMP3 trains the images on TensorFlow, an AI software framework first developed by Google and then open sourced. Take a systemic view of your business, and find data adjacencies.

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