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WHAT IS IT?

A workforce ecosystem framework has four vital themes: management practices, technology enablers, integration architectures, and leadership approaches. Senior leaders and business unit leaders have to manage these themes.

WHY IMPORTANT

CFOs have become central in steering business strategy and value creation. But that task is about to get a lot more comprehensive in scale.

The workforce is changing into an ecosystem, consisting of full- and part-time employees, but also includes robots, chatbots, contractors, gig workers, professional service firms, app developers, and even customers.

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WHAT IS IT?

In today’s fast-paced business environment, making quick, informed decisions is critical to success. This is where data analytics comes in. Data analytics can accelerate your business decisions.

WHY IMPORTANT

64% of businesses report that data analytics has helped them improve their decision-making speed, while an HBR study reveals data analytics can help companies to inform their decision-making 5 times faster than their competitors

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WHAT IS IT?

Today, disruption itself is getting disrupted. And leading future-oriented organizations should now look beyond the unexpected troubles they’ve learned and prepared to expect.

WHY IMPORTANT

Since 2010, Deloitte’s tech futurists have viewed disruption largely through the lens of information technology (IT), which is rooted in the formal sciences—computer and system sciences, logic, mathematics, and statistics—to support new models that meet new needs in new markets.

Technologies in SpaceTech, BioTech, NeuroTech, ClimateTech, EnergyTech, and RobotTech—collectively known as xTech—could soon begin solving fundamental human challenges and eventually rival and even surpass IT’s influence on business innovation.

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WHAT IS IT?

Product Reviews created by artificial intelligence (AI) all over Amazon, and business reviews on other sites. Not every fake review is going to look so, well, fake. There’s a tool you can use to help sort out the good from the bad: Fakespot.

Just paste a link, and you’ll see a grade for those reviews. It works with Amazon, Walmart, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Steam, Sephora, and BestBuy URLs. A or B is fine. C and D are sketchy and avoid Fs.

WHY IMPORTANT

Analyze a product or business for its reviews. Insert a URL of one of our supported websites in the search bar below to start the analysis.

WHAT IS IT?

Autonomous agents are programs designed to perform specific tasks without human intervention. They depend on algorithms and machine learning to make decisions and self-improve occasionally. Experiments are underway with various kinds of autonomous agents with a wide variety of use cases.

WHY IMPORTANT

Artificial intelligence is going berserk in terms of the things that it is capable of doing. The research and development of AI technologies is happening at a lightning-fast pace, something that has never been witnessed by the tech world before.

After ChatGPT showed the world what an intelligent chatbot could do with its impeccable comprehension abilities, the world moved on to AutoGPT and BabyAGI.

AutoGPT and BabyAGI are autonomous agents with AI powers. These programs create tasks for themselves, accomplish them, create new jobs, and even re-prioritize their list of tasks.

More and more experiments and research are being conducted on autonomous agents. This concept can have a far more significant impact across industries in the future.

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WHAT IS IT?

In today’s fast-paced business environment, making quick, informed decisions is critical to success. This is where data analytics comes in. Data analytics can accelerate your business decisions.

WHY IMPORTANT

64% of businesses report that data analytics has helped them improve their decision-making speed, while an HBR study reveals data analytics can help companies to inform their decision-making 5 times faster than their competitors.

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WHAT IS IT?

The evolution of AI innovations is not just a technological breakthrough but also a catalyst for a much-needed shift in our thinking about ourselves and our relationship with the world. Specifically, we see ChatGPT, which merely personifies the latest advancement of mainstream AI today, as a wake-up call for humanity to harness four unique and precious human virtues.

WHY IMPORTANT

AI is the intellectual equivalent to fast food—i.e., efficient, cheap, addictive, rapid, but neither nutritious nor healthy—it is time to discover the intellectual equivalent of slow food or farm-to-table

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Things To Know

Now Fonts Track You

Big Tech makes big money by tracking what you do online. You may have heard of tracking pixels, cookies and scripts. I bet you didn’t know that fonts can track you, too.

Google gives away special fonts to website owners to use. At last count, they’re installed on over 60 million websites.

If you use Chrome, Edge, or any other browser, your best bet is telling Google to forget your search history and activity. It’s not a perfect solution, but it beats not doing anything. Luckily, that’s easy to do, and you can set it up to happen automatically. 

Secret exposed

When you visit a site that uses Google Fonts, you automatically hand over to Google:

Your IP address, aka your unique online identifier tied to your devices

Every webpage you visited and how long you spent there

The links you click on that page

This gets lumped in with all the other data Google collects on you everywhere else. If you want to be shocked, these three creepy lists show everything Google knows about you.

What can you do about it?

Right now, only Firefox allows you to set your own font choice. That’s why software developer Jeff Johnson created a browser extension that does it for you.

StopTheFonts block fonts from sources like Google with built-in tracking codes. Right now, the extension is only available on Safari.

If you use Chrome, Edge or any other browser, your best bet is telling Google to forget your search history and activity. It’s not a perfect solution, but it beats not doing anything. Luckily, that’s easy to do, and you can set it up to happen automatically.

• Go to myaccount.google.com and log in.
• Click Data & privacy on the left side of the screen.
• In the History settings section, checkmarks are next to Web & App Activity, Location History and YouTube History. Click each one to adjust your settings. Toggle them off to stop further tracking if you want.
• On these pages, set up Auto-delete for future activity. Select every 3 months.

✅ Your search history will be gone, but there’s another step to take. You must also disable tracking through apps, location history and YouTube. Get the steps to do that here.