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From strategy+business Adam Lai and Matt Kuperholz “An AI-enabled future might sound impossibly Jetsons-like, but the time when AI can respond with better, faster, more accurate decision making than human beings is already here. Want to use powerful insights from the customer-facing experience of your entire sales force? AI can help do that. Want to … Read more
By Randal AdcockThe Journey | Sorting out the causes of business success/failure in so far as Small & Medium Sized Enterprises go, is not easy. Whether you’re looking into the reasons for success or failure, the causes are of the same sort. If you can address the problems leading to failure then you have a … Read more
KING’S UNIVERSITY > FACULTY of BUSINESS | You will be pleased to know that soon, we’ll be involved with King’s University Faculty of Business and their Community Engaged Research https://www.kingsu.ca/programs/additional-academics/cer (CER) Program. This program builds upon the research capacities of community partners by supporting important initiatives – in this case, Wayfinders Business Cooperative. Through CER + 3 students assigned to us, we’ll … Read more
Meetup Monday, November 19th Ricky’s All Day Grill Jasper Avenue and 109 Street 6 PM to 7:30 PM Lots of free parking space What happens: Updates Sharing Networking Learning We want to know what you want from a business co-operative: Collective buying power Online services – blogs, communities of practice Cloud file storage, project management … Read more
How the Enlightenment Ends From The Atlantic Philosophically, intellectually—in every way—human society is unprepared for the rise of artificial intelligence. Henry A. Kissinger Three years ago, at a conference on transatlantic issues, the subject of artificial intelligence appeared on the agenda. I was on the verge of skipping that session—it lay outside my usual concerns—but … Read more
Life is full! How do we make time to make progress against those things that are not urgent but potentially extremely important for all of us? As the pace of life accelerates we find ourselves ever-more deeply entrenched in routines punctuated with more frequent distractions. Attention spans are shrinking. The scope of strategic perspectives is … Read more
Reposted from Perry Kinkaide https://futurism.com/images/age-automation-welcome-next-great-revolution/ The race is on. “The future of work” is but one dimension of any discussion of the impact of AI as a positive and/or negative force on everything, everywhere now and into the future. Parallels in history are the advent of anything that advanced knowledge and it’s spread from the … Read more
Among many other thoughts on AI and its civil impacts, I believe we have to master our natural collective (civil or organizational) intelligence if we are going to manage AI and other complex issues in the mid to long term. We can see a couple of steps are involved. The first step on this road … Read more
When we individuals have difficulty managing the complex challenges around us, we have always turned to collective and organizational intelligence for assistance. It’s as ancient as we are. We call it community. And when life seems so busy that we want to retreat from community, we need to reinvent community so it continues to work … Read more
One of the biggest questions facing the 21st Century civilization is “how are we going to manage the escalating automation of our world so we continue to live safe, prosperous, and fulfilling lives?” In general, naturally, we are going to manage intelligence with intelligence. The intelligence we are going to use will be some combination … Read more