Posts by George Veth
Creating Valuable (and Trusted) Experiences With Digital Personas
Deepfakes have received much (well-deserved) bad press — but the underlying technology holds plenty of potential for companies to build positive customer experiences.
Read MoreFord’s Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.
Read MorePretotyping vs. Prototyping — What’s the difference?
One of the most common mistakes made by founders and product developers is building something that they thought people would want, only to find out that their assumptions were wrong.
Read More4 emotionally intelligent ways to accept people who don’t share your values
It’s easy to spend your life with people who think like you. Yet hanging out with like-minded people is the opposite of open-mindedness.
Read More6 Strategies for Leading Through Uncertainty
It seems that any given week provides ample reminders that leaders cannot control the degree of change, uncertainty, and complexity we face. The authors offer six strategies to improve a leader’s ability to learn, grow, and more effectively navigate the increasing complexity of our world.
Read MoreIt’s Not a Leader’s Job to Motivate
The truth is that employees start out motivated but the work environments they find themselves in suck that motivation out of them. In other words, they come to the job with their “motivation buckets” filled (or mostly so), then the organization (and its managers) poke holes in those buckets.
Read More11 Sources of Disruption
A quantitative futurist advises leaders to pay attention to 11 sources of disruption.
Read MoreThe strategy-analytics revolution
It’s time to bring advanced analytics into the strategy room—here’s why.
Read MoreThis Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.
Read MoreA smarter way to digitize maintenance and reliability
In heavy-equipment maintenance, digital and analytics tools are struggling to live up to their promise. Here’s how to help them pull their weight.
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