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The analytics, algorithms, and user interfaces must be connected to provide new methods to interact with and support the “human in the loop.” Perhaps some of this push toward automation is being driven by the fact that at least one “human in the loop” in the intelligence
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
People Management in the Age of AI: The Rise of the Supermanager
joshbersin.comTechnologist Vinnie Mirchandani dedicated an entire book to applying the polymath analogy to the twenty-first-century corporation. It is the BPs and the GEs that are the ‘New Polymaths’; multinational companies that excel in multiple technologies and synthesise multiple talent pools from different sectors are today's Leonardos and Ben Franklins, he
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In order to pursue this objective and others involving the speed of decision making, Caesars has acquired both Hadoop clusters and open-source and commercial analytics software. It has also added some data scientists to its analytics group.
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
The company’s IT organization has been implementing big data technologies—nonrelational databases, open-source data management tools, and distributed commodity server architectures—for several years with an eye toward both cost-reduction opportunities and minimizing response time for customers.
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
À medida que acumulamos conhecimento sobre determinado campo, vamos nos tornando prisioneiros de nossos protótipos.
Adam Grant • Originais: Como os inconformistas mudam o mundo (Portuguese Edition)
contributes to the unmanageability of professionals: their daily roles as “experts.”
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Hans Moravec has observed, “It is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult-level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility.”
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
we turn to a pair of MIT economists, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who in their influential 2011 book, Race Against the Machine, provide a compelling case that among various forces at play, it’s the rise of digital technology in particular that’s transforming our labor markets in unexpected ways. “We are in the early throes of a Great
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