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3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

Harvard Business

The strange part is how today’s AI works, building subroutines of patterns, and loops of patterns about other patterns, training itself through multiple layers that are only possible with very large amounts of computation. CAMP3’s initial challenge was securing enough visual data to train its AI product.

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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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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Employee data was cited by 37%, followed by wireless access of networks at 34% and bring-your-own-device efforts at 29%.).

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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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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business

Beacons are battery-powered wireless sensors installed in retail stores or event venues that detect nearby consumers who have opted in to alerts through Bluetooth or other technologies and that relay information to consumers’ mobile devices. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

As one leader said, “We have scaled up a (youth job-training) program we are very proud of, but people are not coming through the doors.” Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Today, more than 18 million people, both health care professionals and laypeople, are trained in CPR each year.

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