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MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito on Digital Innovation and Disruption

BCG

The MIT Media Lab encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. Soon after coming to MIT, Ito introduced mindfulness meditation training to the Media Lab. Video Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

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AI in Consulting: The Beginning of a New Era

Tom Spencer

For example, by analysing large amounts of data, such as historical sales, weather, and social media data, machine learning algorithms can identify patterns that can be used to predict future customer demand and inventory levels. AI systems are only as good as the data they are trained on.

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How to Succeed as a Management Consultant

The Consultants Peer Group

Yesterday I was a presenter on a national Zoom ‘webinar’ on the ‘High Cost of Ethics Lapses’ in the management consulting profession. I was presenting on several of the very high profile, high-cost lapses that have hit the media. How about you? Perhaps I should throw down the professional gauntlet.

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Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Involves Risk

Harmonious Workplaces

Despite putting my own psychological safety at risk over Teams and physical safety at risk later meeting in person with an executive who refers to himself as “the devil” and a “scary dude” and who wields a pistol in the office, I feel I did the ethical thing: It prevented harm to others. Gildan Media. It sought to make things better.

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Training Versus Consulting ? a Story - Free Management Library

Consulting and Organizational Management

Training Versus Consulting – a Story By John Dupre on February 3, 2013. Peter Block ran the training side, which was entitled Designed Learning. And then I called my training friend to hear how it had gone. In that moment, it dawned on me some of the differences between training and consulting. Library Blogs Home.

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Leveling Up: Consulting Skills for an AI-Powered World

Tom Spencer

AI systems can automate the data collection process by using web scraping and natural language processing to extract customer feedback from social media platforms, and use machine learning algorithms to analyse the data. The data analysis may reveal that many customers are looking for sustainable and ethical clothing options.

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Virtual Coaching is Inevitable but is it Effective?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here are a few of the attributes you should consider when hiring a virtual coach: Virtual Coach Attribute #1: Qualification A good virtual coach is a trained and qualified coach. A dual-capacity model of communication media choice in organizations. Media symbolism, media richness, and media choice in organizations.