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Modernizing IT Helps Enterprises Do More with Less
Business Lab - December 14, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe World Bank Group has a massive mission to “help developing countries escape poverty and share prosperity,” says Vijay Yellai, program manager for enterprise resource planning transformation at the World Bank Group. For example, it provides an wide array of financial products and technical kno...
Feeding the World by AI, Machine Learning, and the Cloud
Business Lab - November 16, 2022 15:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAlthough the world population has continued to steadily increase, farming practices have largely remained the same. Amid this growth, climate change poses great challenges to the agricultural industry and its capacity to feed the world sustainably. According to the World Bank, 70% of the world’s ...
AI and Data Fuel Innovation in Clinical Trials and Beyond
Business Lab - October 06, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe last five years have seen large innovations throughout drug development and clinical trial life cycles—from finding a target and designing the trial, to getting a drug approved and launching the drug itself. The recent use of mRNA vaccines to combat covid-19 is just one of many advances in bi...
Building a Culture of Innovation in Research and Development
Business Lab - October 05, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsMemory and storage solutions for technology are built into our everyday life, from mobile applications, cars, health-care systems, and more. To meet that need and help propel innovation, Micron Technology said it would invest $150 billion into research and development to build factories for its s...
Maximize Data Outcomes by Investing in People and Systems
Business Lab - September 27, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn any enterprise, digital transformation is not only a technology transformation but enables business transformation itself, driving new products, solutions and innovations. Having an efficient data strategy is critical to any successful digital transformation but requires careful investment int...
Building great digital customer experiences with agile infrastructure
Business Lab - September 07, 2022 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAs more business, shopping, and banking is done online and from, well, anywhere, customers increasingly expect high-quality digital-first services that remove the need to go into a physical store or bank. “People were working from home, shopping from home, banking from home, and are more tech and...
Using Technology to Power the Future of Banking
Business Lab - August 15, 2022 13:38 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsA heritage financial services institution isn’t necessarily the first place a technologist looks to grow their career. But that hasn’t been a problem for JPMorgan Chase, which has made itself an appealing career destination for technologists. “Technology is not an afterthought,” says Gill Haus, c...
Building Tomorrow’s Telecommunications Network Today
Business Lab - June 15, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe current 5G evolution in network connectivity is expected to drive unprecedented demands for bandwidth, reliability, and security. However, a network of this magnitude and robustness doesn’t pop up overnight and enterprises and consumers are just beginning to realize the myriad use cases a 5G ...
Building the Necessary Skills for Digital Transformation
Business Lab - June 15, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe skills and capabilities needed to undergo digital transformation are in high demand as every company jockeys to gain a competitive advantage. To address the skills gap, some companies are prioritizing upskilling and reskilling. But to be effective, learning and development itself must undergo...
Embracing Culture Change on the Path to Digital Transformation
Business Lab - April 15, 2022 14:25 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsLike many banks, National Australia Bank (NAB) decided to outsource a large part of its operations in the 1990s. “We pushed all our operations and a large part of our development capability out to third parties with the intent of lowering costs and making our operations far more process driven,” ...
Mapping the Atmosphere on Mars Can Help Advance Science on Our Own Planet
Business Lab - April 13, 2022 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsWith its Emirates Mars Mission, also known as the Hope Probe, the UAE has established itself as only the fifth country in history to reach Mars and the seventh in the world to reach the orbit of another planet. The UAE’s first mission to Mars, Hope’s goal is to provide the first, complete picture...
Technology and Innovation Transform Farming
Business Lab - April 07, 2022 14:44 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn many areas of the world, environmental conditions are not conducive to traditional farming. As a result, these countries are food dependent. They rely on imported food, which is subject to supply chain issues and nutrient loss during transportation. A company in the United Arab Emirates called...
Applying Laser Technology to Humanity’s Challenges
Business Lab - April 05, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsFor many people, the concept of directed energy, or lasers, conjures images of lightsabers and bank vault security systems—the stuff of Hollywood movies. However, the fact is, lasers are commonly used in everyday life applications, from surgery to optical communications. At Technology Innovation ...
Scientists Advance Cloud Seeding Capabilities with Nanotechnology
Business Lab - March 28, 2022 16:11 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsSince the 1940s scientists have studied ways to increase rainfall with the goal of increasing precipitation in arid and semi-arid climates. Today, that endeavor is making incredible leaps and bounds as scientists and engineers apply nanotechnology to improve the effectiveness of cloud seeding. “T...
Make Sustainable Products, Sell, Repeat
Business Lab - March 16, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsFew today won’t agree that sustainability is important not only to the future of the planet and society but to business practices as well. And approaches are evolving beyond designing products to be used as long as possible. “If we’re going to design a product or use a product, we’re thinking fro...
Digital Inclusion and Equity Changes What’s Possible
Business Lab - March 08, 2022 19:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsFueled by innovations in AI, IoT, and blockchain, digital transformation has been accelerating rapidly across industries. But as the world’s data is growing at the edge, the stark differences in digital equity and inclusion have become clear. Access to technology, underrepresentation within tech ...
Create Equitable Experiences to Empower Your Employees
Business Lab - March 07, 2022 11:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsAcross industries and geographies, the pandemic has triggered a paradigm shift in the way companies—and their employees—conduct day-to-day business. The move to work-from-home and hybrid work models has increased the need for collaboration to facilitate communication and innovation from remote lo...
Sustainability Starts in the Design Process, and AI Can Help
Business Lab - January 19, 2022 16:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsArtificial intelligence helps build physical infrastructure like modular housing, skyscrapers, and factory floors. “…many problems that we wrestle with in all forms of engineering and design are very, very complex problems…those problems are beginning to reach the limits of human capacity,” says ...
Building the Future with Software-Based 5G Networking
Business Lab - December 15, 2021 16:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsNext-generation solutions and products are hitting a wall with wi-fi: it’s not fast enough, and latency and connectivity issues mean it’s not reliable enough. What’s an innovator to do? Focus on what’s next: 5G and software-defined networking. Nick McKeown, senior vice president and general manag...
Embracing the Promise of a Compute-Everywhere Future
Business Lab - December 14, 2021 16:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe internet of things and smart devices are everywhere, which means computing needs to be everywhere too. And this is where edge computing comes in, because as companies pursue faster, more efficient decision-making, all of that data needs to be processed locally, in real time—on device at the e...
To Accelerate Business, Build Better Human-Machine Partnerships
Business Lab - December 13, 2021 16:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsBusinesses that want to be digital leaders in their markets need to embrace automation, not only to augment existing capabilities or to reduce costs but to position themselves to successfully maneuver the rapid expansion of IT demand ushered in through digital innovation. “It's a scale issue,” sa...
The Employee-Driven Future
Business Lab - December 08, 2021 16:38 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe global pandemic accelerated the trend toward a work-from-anywhere, distributed workforce. As we approach a post-pandemic world, companies—and employees—expect this trend to become the norm. While IT departments are rapidly configuring and deploying devices, infrastructure, and software to sup...
‘Security is Everyone’s Job’ in the Workplace
Business Lab - November 22, 2021 16:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsHackers around the globe are smart: they know that it isn’t just good code that helps them break into systems; it’s also about understanding—and preying upon—human behavior. The threat to businesses in the form of cyberattacks is only growing—especially as companies make the shift to embrace hybr...
Engineering the Future of Mobility
Business Lab - November 17, 2021 16:47 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsFrom cars to planes, the future of transportation is already here—and is changing rapidly. Software engineering is increasingly central to both the development and maintenance of all kinds of vehicles. That means more people need to start thinking like systems engineers. Dale Tutt, vice president...
Accelerating Development in Aerospace for More Urban Mobility
Business Lab - November 16, 2021 16:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe next wave of aerospace is just around the corner, and a lot of that innovation is happening thanks to new, faster methods of development. “What's happening now is that companies are trying to understand how they take the lessons from Agile software development and apply those to Agile product...
Digital Transformation is Changing Banking from the Inside Out
Business Lab - November 15, 2021 16:58 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsCompanies across all industries are faced with the urgent need to transform the way they do business, including financial services, but changes abound with governance, security, and culture. A shift in mindset and perspective away from “the way things have always been done” is key to a successful...
Cryptocurrency Isn't Private -- But With Know-How, It Could Be
Business Lab - October 28, 2021 15:55 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsThere’s probably no such thing as perfect privacy and security online. Hackers regularly breach corporate firewalls to gain customers’ private information, and scammers constantly strive to trick us into divulging our passwords. But existing tools can provide a high level of privacy—if we use the...
Robo-taxis are Headed for a Street Near You
Business Lab - October 26, 2021 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the coming years, mobility solutions—or how we get from point A to point B—will bridge the gap between ground and air transportation—yes, that means flying cars. Technological advancements are transforming mobility for people and, leading to unprecedented change. Nand Kochhar, vice president o...
Machine Learning in the Cloud is Helping Businesses Innovate
Business Lab - October 19, 2021 15:55 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the past decade, machine learning has become a familiar technology for improving the efficiency and accuracy of processes like recommendations, supply chain forecasting, developing chatbots, image and text search, and automated customer service functions, to name a few. Machine learning today ...
Creating a Better Human Experience at Work Starts with Trust
Business Lab - October 05, 2021 15:59 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhat if managers and leaders at companies focused on a new goal: to elevate the human experience? This paradigm shift is something Amelia Dunlop, chief experience officer at Deloitte Digital, advocates for. She and her team have worked hard to measure the amount of humanity in the workplace—a mea...
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