Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence (AI)
How technology is reshaping the future of healthcare(FC)
Whether designing a pair of robot pants or a prosthetic limb or a healthcare app, it’s important that people feel they’re getting a personalized upgrade—not just a solution. Consider prosthetic limbs. While this century has seen huge advancements in design and functionality, the not-so-distant future will deliver individualized, customized limbs that very much resemble and function like natural limbs […]
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Your Talent Strategy Has to Keep Up with Your AI Transformation(HBR)
The entry-level job pipeline is thinning globally, and the consequences of eliminating these types of roles in favor of AI are compounding. Eliminate entry-level roles, and you reduce the headcount that justifies mid-level managers. Reduce mid-level managers, and you shrink the pool feeding director and VP pipelines. What looks like a staffing efficiency decision is […]
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6 skills everyone needs in the AI era(FC)
Eighteen months ago, most business leaders were still debating whether AI could write a convincingly human-sounding email without hallucinating. Today, artificial intelligence systems are managing codebases, conducting research, screening contracts, and operating as autonomous agents inside enterprise workflows. Some capabilities that senior technologists expected to arrive in three to five years have arrived in months. At the […]
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Everyone wants to kill the middle manager role. The data says don’t do it(FC)
There’s even a name for this—the “Great Flattening”—and it’s everywhere. Some 41% of employees say their companies trimmed management layers last year, according to Korn Ferry’s survey of 15,000 professionals worldwide. Middle managers accounted for more than 31% of all layoffs in 2023. And it’s not likely to stop, but to accelerate instead: Gartner predicts that through 2026, 20% of organizations […]
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AI Is Exposing Why Organizations Promote The Wrong Leaders(Forbes)
Organizations are redesigning work for AI while still promoting managers for a pre-AI world. The criteria that built their leadership pipelines may now be working against them. The traits that helped managers succeed in a pre-AI workplace — confidence, visibility and decisiveness — were optimized for environments where leaders were expected to project certainty, move […]
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How leaders are turning AI disruption into a workforce advantage(FC)
Employees are right to feel unsettled. As AI embeds itself deeper into enterprise workflows, the questions it raises aren’t just about efficiency — they’re about the fundamental structure of work itself. Which roles survive? Which skills actually matter? And who bears accountability when a machine acts on your behalf? Reports from the International Labor Organization and the […]
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A model to accelerate energy technology innovation(FC)
The global energy industry is under pressure to innovate. Energy companies need vetted, field-tested technologies that improve efficiency, enhance safety, and streamline operations. On the other side of the spectrum, early-stage startups developing new technologies struggle to access customers, test environments, and capital. These parallel challenges can slow crucial energy innovation, creating a commercialization gap. […]
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AI might make your company faster, but at what cost?(FC)
Artificial intelligence may be driving rapid results, but it could lead to the quiet erosion of relationships in your company. There’s a quiet trade-off happening inside high-growth companies right now. We’re moving faster than ever, and teams are more efficient. AI is handling work that used to take hours, and asynchronous communication means decisions don’t have to […]
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