Every enterprise faces the same challenge – identifying leaders and building a pipeline robust enough to outlast the founders or the current leadership. The nightmare scenario for any company hoping to survive past its first generation is layers of mediocrity quietly calcifying in management. To prevent it, most organizations run management and leadership development programs,…
AI takes over as massive layoffs continue in HR departments. That headline won’t look pretty, irony aside, but I’ll say it anyway, the first function AI genuinely displaces will be human resources. Why? Because HR has spent decades in a lose-lose position. Workers see it as management’s enforcement arm; management sees it as a function…
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before getting into the business case. Machine learning and AI became necessary because of big data. Without them, most social media platforms would have collapsed under their own volume. Consider the scale involved – Instagram sees roughly 95 million photos uploaded per day, Twitter around 500 million tweets, Snapchat…
Somewhere between November 1994 and January 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. Every click on a hyperlinked, static web page sent my imagination further than the last. I don’t usually bring the technical details of my job home, but that day was the exception. ‘This is going to revolutionize the world,’ I…