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With millions of remote workers around the world, the role of virtual meetings has never been more important. Here are 10 tips to make them better.
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He may not be as smart as Watson or Lieutenant Commander Data. He's definitely not as strong as the new FANUC M-2000iA/1700L that can lift 1.7 tons — the equivalent of two small cars or 24 people. And he is certainly not as pretty as the robot “clones” on
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Technology is often described as an enabler, but technology trends and concepts can also shape how we view the world.
Depending on your point of view, you might see the workplace as a complicated human-powered machine that needs to be maintained for peak performance.
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When AlphaGo, an artificially intelligent computing system built by researchers at Google, beat Go champion Lee Sedol in Seoul this month, the world looked on in amazement.
AlphaGo made a surprising move in the first match, ultimately winning four of the five matches and delivering another victory for the machines.
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The road to the future is constantly accelerating.
That theme underlay two recent — and on the surface very different — events.
The Conference Board of Canada’s Council on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) held it’s one and a half day event in Toronto, with KM practitioners, captains of industry
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What do the numbers seven, nine, 11, 25 and 150 have in common?
They may feel familiar since they frequently pop up in business articles. So if you said they're related to workplace distractions and getting work done — bingo! — you're right.
The Numbers Game
The Magical Number Seven
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Imagine you only had to arrive to work at 10 am and you left at 4 pm. What difference would that make to your life?
Imagine the commute to and from work — empty roads, space in the train carriage.
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If you're like me, you work at least part of the time from a remote location. From your home, a co-working space, the local coffee shop, or even a park — pretty much anywhere you can get a wi-fi connection.
We're not alone.
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People sometimes accuse me of not appearing focused on the problem at hand. And every time I give the same answer: we might just be seeing the problem differently.
Picture a bottomless pitcher of milk turned on its side, spilling milk onto the floor.
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Customer needs and requirements have set the pace for digital business evolution.
In days long gone — circa 1996 — it was enough to have a website.
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When Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson spoke with each other on Oct. 9, 1876, across a three kilometer telephone wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston, the concept of the "digital workplace" was born.
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When I began my career as a software developer (thought we weren't called that then – we were software engineers) it was a relatively solitary pursuit.
Yes, we had project meetings and code reviews — endless code reviews — but most of the time we just sat and wrote code.
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