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

BCG

Video Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The Lab is supported by more than 80 members—including some of the world’s leading corporations—representing such diverse fields as electronics, entertainment, fashion, health care, and telecommunications. Soon after coming to MIT, Ito introduced mindfulness meditation training to the Media Lab.

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Using Design Thinking to Embed Learning in Our Jobs

Harvard Business

Since we now expect learning to be as simple and compelling as watching YouTube, hundreds of video-based content providers and MOOCs offer free bite-sized content for us to consume on our phones while sitting in the coffee shop or standing in the subway. The traditional solution is to build a fantastic training program. Erika Andersen.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Telecommunications. Another knock-on effect of working with a bunch of gurus is that meaningful on the job training is often hard to come across. Alix Partners Videos. Healthcare. Heavy Equipment. Life Sciences. Media & Entertainment. Oil & Gas. Private Equity. Restaurant & Foodservice. Office Locations .

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NSA tool collects "Nearly Everything You Do On the Internet"

MishTalk

The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. Its safe to assume Google knows everything you have ever searched for, every address you looked up on Google, every email you sent, every chat message, every YouTube video you watched.

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Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

MishTalk

The cost of finding, recruiting, training and keeping drivers is steadily rising,” Shevell says. Sal Khan at TED Please play at least the first couple minutes of the above video. The above may take a few years longer than trucks, just as fiber or wireless to homes (the last mile) was once the telecommunication problem.

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Doing Business in India Requires a Mobile-First Strategy

Harvard Business

A telecommunications revolution, towards fourth generation (4G) mobile services, will transform the consumer landscape over the next 5-10 years. Education : The use of mobile video technology in education and skill building for the millions of India’s youth is another bottom-up revolution in making.