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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity. UjuziKilimo , a Kenyan startup, uses big data and analytic capabilities to transform farmers into a knowledge-based community, with the goal of improving productivity through precision insights.

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How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

From climate change to terrorism, the difficulties confronting policy makers are unprecedented in their variety, but also in their complexity. Our existing policy tool kit seems stale and outdated. While still an emerging practice, examples of such partnerships now exist around the world, across sectors and public policy domains.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., For some tasks, it is desirable or necessary to have common rules across the operating units: policies, standards, methods, procedures, or systems. Minimum efficient scale.

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Epicflow Updates: Hardshell Data Security and Advanced AI-Powered Functionality for Flawless Project Portfolio and Resource Management

Epicflow

After adopting Epicflow, company management can decide what channels Epica will use as a source: your procedures, policies, etc., Epicflow’s knowledge base and training materials, any other source, or all together.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow.

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