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

MishTalk

Advances in sensors, wireless networking, voice recognition and design prototyping are enabling us to build the smart retail robots that can autonomously navigate through stores, help communicate with customers to understand what they need and locate it quickly. 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. For example, Procter & Gamble has had an electronic toothbrush with wireless sensors for two years.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Even though these programs were covered by insurance, making them essentially free, only 20,000 adults took advantage, or less than 1/1000th of 1% of the at-risk population. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Build sales and marketing capabilities is the third principle.

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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. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Artificial intelligence. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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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. From there it is a relatively simple matter to offer the car, or seek refinancing and insurance. Take a systemic view of your business, and find data adjacencies. Package AI for the customer experience.

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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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