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Favorite How do Japanese organisations approach best pratice sharing? Let’s look at Yokoten Workers exchanging knowledge (genchi gembutsu) Japan, exemplified by Toyota, has developed its own flavour of Knowledge Management. Together with a local focus on knowledge development (Kaizen), knowledge documentation (A3) and the behaviours of Hansei we can add
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Shared by Nick Milton August 13, 2020
Favorite How do Japanese organisations approach best pratice sharing? Let’s look at Yokoten Workers exchanging knowledge (genchi gembutsu) Japan, exemplified by Toyota, has developed its own flavour of Knowledge Management. Together with a local focus on knowledge development (Kaizen), knowledge documentation (A3) and the behaviours of Hansei we can add
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Favorite Getting relevant recommendations in front of your users at the right time is a crucial step for the success of your personalization strategy. However, your customer’s decision-making process shifts depending on the context at the time when they’re interacting with your recommendations. In this post, I show you how
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 12, 2020
Favorite Customers often need to identify single objects in images; for example, to identify their company’s logo, find a specific industrial or agricultural defect, or locate a specific event, like hurricanes, in satellite scans. In this post, we showcase how to train a custom model to detect a single object
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Favorite Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support R out-of-the-box, without needing you to manually install R kernels on the instances. Also, the notebooks come pre-installed with the reticulate library, which offers an R interface for the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK and enables you to invoke Python modules from within an R
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Favorite Very often the Knowledge Management professional (especially the Knowledge Engineer) will get involved in the mechanics of Knowledge Capture. This is where they need to be fully objective, and avoid “leading the witness”. Image from Wikimedia If you, as Knowledge Manager, are involved in a Knowledge Capture service, the purpose
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Favorite Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Comprehend from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. Amazon Comprehend is a fully managed natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning
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Favorite We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast can now use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to train forecasting models up to 2X faster with up to 30% higher accuracy. CNN algorithms are a class of neural network-based machine learning (ML) algorithms that play a vital role in Amazon.com’s demand forecasting
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Favorite We recently published a new whitepaper, Machine Learning Best Practices in Financial Services, that outlines security and model governance considerations for financial institutions building machine learning (ML) workflows. The whitepaper discusses common security and compliance considerations and aims to accompany a hands-on demo and workshop that walks you through
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Favorite A few years ago I compared published cultural dimensions for various countries against a proxy measure of KM maturity. This blog post repeats that analysis with more recent, and more complete, data. One of the most famous (although controversial) studies of national culture was by Geert Hofstede. Hofstede looked
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