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Are you sleepwalking into the death zone?
Friday, 2 March 2018
Graham Christie
Which-50 Insiders
Large and mid-sized enterprises in Australia are sleepwalking into a death zone, such is the lack of appetite and capability towards innovating. This mindset is nothing new, but the risk of perpetuating it has reached crisis levels due to the relative ease of powerful overseas companies and also dynamic young businesses entering every sector, hell-bent on disrupting and stealing customers.
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These Are the Most Exciting Industries and Jobs of the Future
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
We’ve all read the headlines: the robots are coming, and they will take our jobs. In fact, up to 45 percent of tasks workers perform can be automated using current technology, let alone future forecasts. Read more
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Delivering Through Diversity
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.
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Oxfam’s annual inequality report
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
It’s the first day of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, which means that Oxfam is releasing its annual shame-the-rich report. I’ve been rudeabout this report in the past, because I don’t believe that statistics of the form “the top X has as much wealth as the bottom Y” are particularly enlightening or helpful. After all, according to the standard methodology, my niece, who just got her first 50 cents in pocket money, has more money than the poorest 2 billion people in the world combined.
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How Fast Is AI Progressing? Stanford’s New Report Card for Artificial Intelligence
Monday, 22 January 2018
When? This is probably the question that futurists, AI experts, and even people with a keen interest in technology dread the most. It has proved famously difficult to predict when new developments in AI will take place. The scientists at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956 thought that perhaps two months would be enough to make “significant advances” in a whole range of complex problems, including computers that can understand language, improve themselves, and even understand abstract concepts. Read more
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Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs
Monday, 22 January 2018