Augmented Reality (AR) is the latest bandwagon to grip the minds of the public. There has been a plethora of AR announcements over the last year – including Mozilla’s Firefox Reality (an AR/VR browser) and Snapchat’s Lense Studio that lets . . .
Read articleposted 28th November 2018IoT Evolution World
IoT devices are all around us, and will communicate 400 zettabytes of data (that’s 4GB with 22 zeros after) by the end of 2018, but an AI component is needed to make sense of all this data – otherwise we end . . .
Read articleposted 18th October 2018Management Today
There are plenty of things in today’s world that divide opinion – veganism, social media, Marmite – but Artificial Intelligence (AI) may have the widest range of commentary of any of these controversial topics. While Silicon Valley and co. are . . .
Read articleposted 18th October 2018IoT Now
The way we work has always been dictated by the technology available to us. As technology improves, says Charles Towers-Clark, CEO of Pod Group, the workforce adapts to match the new standard of efficiency, and a whole range of jobs is created . . .
Read articleposted 18th October 2018HR Magazine
Our WEIRD attributes are Wisdom, Emotional intelligence, Initiative, Responsibility and Development A company culture that puts people first is difficult to achieve when managers still dictate what happens in the business – so the question of how to create a . . .
Read articleposted 18th October 2018People Management
While machines will absorb a lot of specialised work within the next 15 years, the most service-focused roles will be safe – for now, says Charles Towers-Clark
Read articleposted 18th October 2018The WEIRD CEO – why ‘business as usual’ will soon be a thing of the past The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered by Big Data is bringing radical change to our daily lives (just look at how much Google . . .
Read articleposted 17th October 2018Fake news was the Collin’s word of the year for 2017 with good reason. In a year where politics-as-usual was torn apart at the seams, high-profile scandals rocked our faith in humanity and the extreme effects of global warming made themselves painfully known, it is becoming harder than . . .
Read articleposted 4th October 2018Cyborgs are among us already. Not the human-weapon hybrids that exist in children’s imaginations and terrible horror movies, but a far more efficient variety that is mostly indistinguishable from non-modified humans. Advances in medical technology can help mitigate conditions that were . . .
Read articleposted 1st October 2018Lack of explainability of decisions made by Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs is a major problem. This inability to understand how AI does what it does also stops it from being deployed in areas such as law, healthcare and within enterprises . . .
Read articleposted 19th September 2018Book by Charles Towers-Clark
In The WEIRD CEO, Charles sets out the technological and societal changes that will take place over the next fifteen years, and explains why companies need to rethink the way they motivate employees. He outlines why CEOs and managers need to encourage Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Initiative, Responsibility and Development (WEIRD) to make sure employees feel fulfilment and ownership in their work – and gives a fascinating and sometimes brutally honest record of the change process his company went through.
The WEIRD CEO explains how and why we need to change, in order to deal with a new working world dominated by Artificial Intelligence.
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