Favorite This week I have been blogging about the challenge of revolutionising the productivity of the knowledge worker; the challenge which Peter Drucker set for us. The lean working environment for the manual worker (image from greenhousecanada.com).Does the working environment for the knowledge worker look like this? We have looked at the
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Shared by Nick Milton November 19, 2020
Favorite This year, the way many of us work has changed dramatically. We’ve gone from lunch meetings and large networking conferences to meeting virtually from our makeshift home offices. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly upended a lot of this, but that doesn’t mean sharing ideas is on hold, too. That’s
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Shared by Google AI Technology November 18, 2020
Favorite Everyone has a tree story, Rachel Malarich says—and one of hers takes place on the limbs of a eucalyptus tree. Rachel and her cousins spent summers in central California climbing the 100-foot tall trees and hanging out between the waxy blue leaves—an experience she remembers as awe-inspiring. Now, as
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Shared by Google AI Technology November 18, 2020
Favorite For many organizations, consolidating information assets and making them available to employees when needed remains a challenge. Commonly used technology like spreadsheets, relational databases, and NoSQL databases exacerbate this issue by creating more and more unconnected, unstructured data. Knowledge graphs can provide easier access and understanding to this data
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 18, 2020
Favorite Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy to process documents at scale by automatically extracting printed text, handwriting, and other data from virtually any type of document. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 18, 2020
Favorite Over the last two days I have blogged about the challenge of revolutionising the productivity of the knowledge worker, which Peter Drucker set for us. We have looked at the division of knowledge labour, and the automation/augmentation of knowledge work. Today we look at the knowledge supply chain. Parts,
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Shared by Nick Milton November 18, 2020
Favorite Yesterday I blogged about the challenge to revolutionise the productivity of the knowledge worker, and how the first step was the division of knowledge. The second step is the automation of knowledge work. Image from wikipedia commons Automation was one of the factors that helped revolutionise the productivity of
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Shared by Nick Milton November 17, 2020
Favorite This week I would like to upcycle a series of blog posts from 5 years ago about “revolutionising the productivity of the knowledge worker” – a challenge set for us by Peter Drucker Image from wikimedia commons Peter Drucker famously said ‘‘The most important, and indeed the truly unique,
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Shared by Nick Milton November 16, 2020
Favorite We’re excited to announce dynamic filters in Amazon Personalize, which allow you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly, without any extra cost. Dynamic filters create better user experiences by allowing you to tailor your business rules for each user when you generate recommendations. They save
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 14, 2020
Favorite Over the past few years, businesses have experienced a steep rise in the volume of documents they have to deal with. These include a wide range of structured and unstructured text spread across different document formats. Processing these documents and extracting data is labor-intensive and costly. It involves complex
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 14, 2020