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Will privateers replace pirates on the digital transformation oceans

You are not Elon Musk! You are not a hero here to save the company – and you are not working in a company full of idiots. The tone and approach you take within the company will make your attempts at transformation easier or harder, declare Tendayi Viki in his last book. Interview. Hi Tendayi, so why did you write this book… now? Tenday Viki: For many years, we have been fighting the battle of convincing leaders that innovation should be an important part of how they do business. I believe that this argument is now coming to an end. Most leaders are now fully convinced that innovation is the best way for their companies to create new growth. Now the question is slowly shifting towards how we actually get things done. How do we make innovation a repeatable process within the company? This is why I wrote Pirates In The Navy. The book addresses questions such as: How do we get our company ready for...

Posted By: Category: Blog, Interview Date: October 23, 2020

How do I gain attention is the biggest asset that somebody can have in their career

Helping celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Xzibit, Charles Barkley, Michael Strahan, super model Adriana Lima, and pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, Brendan Kane equally learnt how to get one million followers in only one month, for him. Let’s offer a little micro-attention to listen to him about his book: One Million Followers. Hi Brendan, why did I write this book now? Brendan Kane: Well, I really feel that there is people all over the world that have the ability to transform it in a positive way and most of these people are just struggling to get their voices to be heard. They are either being suppressed or their voices are not being heard because they just don’t have the strategy, the knowhow because we live in a world where there are 60 billion messages sent out on digital platforms each day. It is a very, very know easy and oversaturated world. So, oftentimes the people that are brilliant...

Posted By: Category: Blog, Fashion, Interview Date: October 10, 2020

Reclaim the present in service of a different future

Let's use history as our guide to learn from social movements and thinkers from the past as to how they tackled various problems of politics and power. Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital technology, To better understand, we have interwieved Lizzie O'Shea who authored Future Histories. Deep dive into a book that sounds like an oxymore. Hi Lizzie, so why did you write this book… now? Lizzie O'Shea : Digital technology gives us a glimpse of how we could organise the world better, but too often it is not doing what we want. Too often it is just about creating billionaires while immiserating billions, privatizing our psychological spaces instead of building connection, building devices of surveillance rather than empowerment. My motivation is that we are squandering the potential of the digital revolution. This is...

Posted By: Category: Blog, Interview Date: June 25, 2020

Will you carry your it-business, soon in your it-bag?

If you are feeling trapped in a job that's just not you, it's time to break out that career cage. But how to find the work-life balance that fits who you really are? Beyond fashion, an inspriring, unconventional and practical guide exists: Be A Free Range Human,authored by Marianne Cantwell. Interview with an elegant free ranger, carrying her business in her lap top. Hi Marianne, so why did you write this book… now? Marianne Cantwell: There are many myths about work that need to be busted so people can know what options are really available to them. One of them is that a job is your only option, or your safest option. Another is that if you start a business, it has to look, sound and run in a certain way. Both of these have held even very intelligent people back and I wrote this so people could see the options available to them and create a career that fits who they are. It's also...

Posted By: Category: Blog, Interview Date: May 21, 2020

No need to annoy an AI & Data champion

There was no need to annoy Jean-Philippe Desbiolles, Vice-Président Global Cognitive, AI & Data Leader for Financial Services at IBM. Hearing too much nonsense about Artificial Intelligence, he armed himself with a frank and direct pen to write his truths on the topic, in a book entitled “AI will be what you make of it” (L’IA sera ce que tu en feras). Lovers of tongue-in-cheek interviews and shock formulas, these next few lines are for you. Hi Jean-Philippe, so why did you write this book... now? I’d had enough! For too long, pitches on Artificial Intelligence have been either completely alarmist either blessed-yes. They prevent from a real adoption and development of AI. Above all, they take away our sense of responsibility. After more than 10 years of experience in this domain, where I had the chance to carry out projects in the US, Asia and Europe, it was time to share this experience;...

Posted By: Category: AI, Blog, Interview Date: February 18, 2020

Can an AI teach English to us?

What if an AI could teach English to everyone? This is the underlying assumption behind a test made in collaboration between MIT Auto-Id Lab and ABA English's linguists. For the first time, the Amazon's assistant Alexa has been used to simulate a human conversation in order to discover proficiency in English and practice speaking. For people learning English all over the world, who wish to discover their proficiency in English and practice speaking, the English Test for Alexa Echo Show, is the only English-language proficiency test based on interacting vocally with Alexa which assesses your level of English by simulating a human conversation. Contrary to all other digital language level tests available today, English Test on Alexa is the first test to assess English proficiency by simulating a human conversation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEvAXD05cg 1. Hi Maria Perillo and Brian...

Posted By: Category: AI, Blog, Interview Date: May 28, 2018