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Fusing Artificial Intelligence and Learning & Development

Experience to Lead

For an introduction to Artificial Intelligence and its ethical considerations within the business context, read the first article here. As AI rapidly grows more sophisticated, building new skills and competencies through L&D will become even more important for human workers and organizations alike.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. How Ethical Are You? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? More >>.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. Yes, this exercise will surface all manner of ethical — and possibly legal — conflicts and risks.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Are we taking advantage of new advocacy technologies that can do things like automate organization and packaging of customer testimonials and other customer content? That's a bad idea for a lot of reasons: it's not ethical, buyers can see through this, and it's bad for your organization. Revolutionize your customer value proposition.

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Customer Reference Programs at The Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Are we taking advantage of new advocacy technologies that can do things like automate organization and packaging of customer testimonials and other customer content? That's a bad idea for a lot of reasons: it's not ethical, buyers can see through this, and it's bad for your organization. Revolutionize your customer value proposition.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

One of the critical early successes was to leverage a technology developed by the Praekelt Foundation in South Africa, an organization which has a close relationship with MTN, South Africa's second largest mobile network operator. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Core Business. Enron (like many other companies) got into areas beyond their core competencies. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed.