In today's society, technology has completely revolutionized the way in which we learn for the better. Individuals can now easily gain access to information from big data analytics and organizations have created an environment in which learners can give and receive feedback regardless of distance and mobility. This relatively new type of learning has adapted to the driving need … [Read more...] about The 5 Most Powerful Ways We Can Use Technology to Learn
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The Rise of Robots and AI, are They Taking Over the World?
Atlas from Boston Dynamics (a subsidiary of Google) is a pretty resilient chap, judging by this video. He can trudge through uneven snow, be knocked off his feet and get up again (in an eerily similar way to the film Real Steel), and perform the sorts of menial tasks that might take place in any warehouse or shop storeroom across the country. In fact, it is hard to believe that … [Read more...] about The Rise of Robots and AI, are They Taking Over the World?
How Cloud Analytics Levels the Playing Field for Small Retailers
Retailers in the U.S. provide 42 million jobs and add more than $2.6 trillion to the GDP each year. Nearly 99 percent are small businesses with fewer than 50 employees, and about 95 percent are single-location stores. Until recently, few had access to sophisticated retail analytics. Yet national mega-retailers have spent millions to build out big data analytics using and other … [Read more...] about How Cloud Analytics Levels the Playing Field for Small Retailers
The Power of Third-Party Data
The first thing to sort out when considering a data strategy is what types of data you have, what types you need, and how you can use both. The two main segments of data are first-party and third-party. First-party is the foundation of your marketing strategy. This is the internal data that is collected about your customers from customer-facing systems, such as websites, email, … [Read more...] about The Power of Third-Party Data
IT and OT, Friends or Foes in the Industrial Internet of Things?
In the past, Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) were seen as two distinct domains of a business. The former focused on all technologies that were necessary to manage the processing of information, whereas the latter supported the devices, sensors and software that were necessary for physical value creation and manufacturing processes. One of the factors … [Read more...] about IT and OT, Friends or Foes in the Industrial Internet of Things?