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Webinar #3 — Leadership in Entrepreneurial and Ecosystemic Platform Organizations | by Boundaryless | Sep, 2024 | Stories of Platform Design
Hosted by Emanuele Quintarelli and Shruthi Prakash, this session brought together a panel of industry veterans including Céline Schillinger, author of Dare to Unlead and founder of We Need Social… Hosted by Emanuele Quintarelli and Shruthi Prakash, this session...
AI and the Workforce – Knowledge at Wharton | Acast
Listen to AI and the Workforce from Knowledge at Wharton. When implemented effectively, generative artificial intelligence can enhance innovation among employees, relieve them from repetitive tasks, and bolster their communication skills. AI enables employees to...
Dreamforce 24 – how Agentforce can simplify AI development and governance
Salesforce's Agentforce platform promises to dramatically simplify the development and capabilities of chatbots and copilots. Adam Evans, SVP Product,... Salesforce's new Agentforce platform introduces a new programming model for interconnecting and orchestrating...
Preparing for AI – O’Reilly
What you need to learn to partner with generative AI AI is everywhere—we’re in a middle of a technology shift that’s as big (and possibly bigger) than the arrival of the web in the 1990s. Even though ChatGPT appeared almost two years ago, we still feel unprepared: we...
Putting the body back into corporate – by Dr Cristian Ispir
In an age where "corporate" evokes images of towering glass buildings and faceless multinational conglomerates, it's easy to forget that the roots of the word lie in something far more tangible and human: the body. In the medieval period, the idea of a...
Getting Enterprise AI Strategy Right
AI offers considerable benefits across almost every commercial enterprise, from efficiency gains to the potential for brand new products. But it also represents a threat, opening up possibilities for new entrants to disrupt established markets. In business...
Revolutionizing Autonomous Agents: Salesforce’s xLAM Outperforms GPT-4 | Synced
Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have garnered considerable research attention. However, the open-source community faces significant hurdles in developing specialized models for agent tasks, primarily due to the limited availability of...
How AI Is Transforming The Finance Industry
The financial industry is well known for being data-driven and embracing emerging technology to provide efficiency, cost savings, detect fraudulent activity and keep operations running smoothly. So, it should come as no surprise that the industry is embracing AI as a...
TBM 310: Trees, Journeys, and Loops (and the Functional Model Trap)
After conducting hundreds of North Star workshops, I noticed a pattern. Teams (and functions) are often biased toward the capability view, journey view, or flywheel view, each with its pros and cons. By artfully using all these views—and embracing valuable...
Something New: On OpenAI’s “Strawberry” and Reasoning
Solving hard problems in new ways I have had access to the much-rumored OpenAI “Strawberry” enhanced reasoning system for awhile, and now that it is public, I can finally share some thoughts1. It is amazing, still limited, and, perhaps most importantly, a signal of...
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