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• BrandPost: Infographic: How Much Money Are Meetings Costing Your Business?

  23-03-2018 20:39
  In the realm of satire, the inefficient meeting is the stuff of legend, but the bite they take out of your company’s bottom line is anything but funny—and very real.For starters, the resources they consume is staggering. Research conducted by Bain & Company found that it’s not unusual for an organization to spend 15% of its collective time in meetings.Digging deeper, the research found that at one company, a 90-minute weekly executive meeting required 300,000 hours per yea
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Up, down or out? Perspectives on artificial intelligence in health care today

  23-03-2018 16:45
  Two-thirds of the attendees polled at a recent innovation summit by The Economist agreed on one thing: health care is the sector that will benefit most from artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.In health care, which is in the midst of an industry transformation and a digitalization of key aspects of patient engagement and care management, the role of data, analytics and AI are central to the organizational mission. However, it is easy to get caught up in one
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How blockchain is disrupting the legal industry

  23-03-2018 13:08
  Blockchain, the underlying technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, has a wide range of use cases that extend way beyond finance. The easiest way to think of it is as a decentralized digital ledger. If you’re familiar with how bit torrents and file-sharing work, it’s basically the same concept. It’s like an incorruptible database that’s stored by multiple different users so that any unauthorized changes are rejected.Because of this, blockchain is perfect for
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Mark Zuckerberg’s Tylenol moment

  23-03-2018 13:03
  Mark Zuckerberg’s frenetic media tour this week missed the mark. Though the honesty was refreshing, Facebook’s CEO hasn’t done anything to reassure the social network’s 1.4 billion users that they’re being protected from nefarious advertisers, campaigners and app developers – like, you know, right now.Zuckerberg needs to grab a page from the playbook of James Burke, the CEO of Johnson & Johnson, who navigated the company through the Tylenol crisis 35 year
  
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• Why a parent-friendly culture benefits your entire workforce

  23-03-2018 10:51
  I am not a morning person. I never have been. Most days, though, I drag myself out of bed at 5:30 a.m. to get a jump-start on my to-do list before my 7-year-old wakes up. After I let the dog out and start the coffee, I sit down and answer e-mail, write out my daily task list and scroll through Facebook as I wake up.By the time my husband and son get up, I’m ready to roll. Then it’s time to get  everyone ready to leave, take a quick shower, do school drop-off, walk the dog and,
  
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• Busting bias in AI

  23-03-2018 10:32
  Alexa. Siri. Cortana. These virtual digital assistants are becoming part of our daily lives, and besides their functional similarities, they have one other important feature in common: they’re all coded to present as women.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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