Digital technologies are bringing big changes to the oil and gas industry. How are oil and gas companies use big data analytics and the vast array of digital tools to automate and improve maintenance, supply chain, and nearly every other aspect of the industry? Let’s take a look.
Alphabet’s Smart City Project Set To Help The Environment, But Leaves Questions On Data Usage
The Alphabet smart city project in Toronto is poised to move forward with a lot of good intention, but still with some looming questions around the use of data. Exploring the project, how it will help the environment and what will happen to all of the data?
The New Emerging Technologies Changing the Way We Work
If there’s one thing that’s clear as we head toward 2020, it’s this: the way we work is irreversibly changing. Here are some emerging technologies changing the future of work.
Amazon Upskilling 2025 — Amazon Commits to Retraining Employees
Amazon Upskilling 2025 was announced today, a commitment by Amazon to invest $700 million in retraining employees in data science, machine learning, business analysis, etc. Not to take anything away from Amazon’s ‘moment’ $700 million over six years is not a lot of money in the big scheme of all things Amazon.
Businesses Need Extreme Recruiting to Win Over the Brightest Millennial Tech Talent
Millennials and Generation Z are flocking to Silicon Valley for jobs. No surprise, then, that many companies outside the Valley are looking for innovative ways to attract and retain star coders in a technology-driven market. One of these is a successful new practice called extreme recruiting. A study from Burning Glass found programming jobs are growing 12 percent faster than …
Blockchain’s Impact on HR and the Future of Work
Blockchain. Is it today’s annoying buzzword or a technology that’s going to change everything about the way we live, work, and do business? While we’re certainly not “there” yet, my vote is on the latter. So what is blockchain? It’s a digitally encrypted ledger that stores information publicly in groups called “blocks.” It’s completely decentralized database only gives access to …
4 Things That Keep Me Amped About the Future of Automating Work
The future of artificial intelligence cannot be successful without the development of automation. These two processes work together, promising to increase productivity and efficiency in the workplace. At the same time, many worry about the loss of jobs — and potential economic downfall — if robots and other automated technologies take over the digital marketplace. From where I stand, the …
The Key to HR Digital Transformation Success—Adoption of HR Technology
If your organization is focused on HR digital transformation success, the adoption of HR technology is an integral part of the equation. And if your HR team has yet to embrace cloud-based HR technology, your company is already behind the times. Cloud-based HR technology allows HR teams to do many things, not the least of which is using data to …
Why People + Machines Will Be the Key to the Future of Work
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and robotics, there are generally two main schools of thought, especially when it comes to these technologies serving as the key to the future of work. The first is that AI will take over humanity—perhaps even violently—and all of us will be forced into redundancy due to machines that eventually become …
6 Reasons Millennials are Pushing for Smarter Workplaces
With all the technology boosts in the past couple of years, you could assume that offices have become the epitome of smart. We are not there yet—but we are getting close. We are rapidly moving into an era of smarter workplaces and millennials are pushing us closer and closer. A study completed by Penn Schoen Berland found that 82% of …