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Aug 18, 2019·Business & Strategy

How to battle a demand slowdown

In a slowdown, consumers become more choosy. Are auto majors doing enough to develop and launch next generation cars that today’s consumers find desirable?

Founding Fuel

Aug 14, 2019·Leadership & Organisation

What leaders need to do to capture value from innovation in the digital era

Innovation is easier in the digital era. Yet, capturing value from innovation is becoming more challenging. This calls for the leader’s role to change to that of chief experimenter

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Aug 11, 2019·Leadership & Organisation

An inquiry into Agility

Implementing agile principles isn’t easy. It needs leaders who feel secure letting go of power and trusting the team to discover where may answers lie

Founding Fuel

Aug 10, 2019·Leadership & Organisation

‘The power of coaching is to offer a different perspective’

Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle share what they learnt from their mentor, legendary coach Bill Campbell, in their book ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’

D Shivakumar

Operating Partner | Advent International

Aug 9, 2019·Artificial Intelligence

Not AI alone but AI + ethics

AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out

N Dayasindhu

Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital

Aug 4, 2019·Artificial Intelligence

China and the US are already locked in a race to become the AI superpower. China seems to have a lead. It is creating an ecosystem for AI through state sponsorship and the innovations by entrepreneurial ventures

Founding Fuel

Aug 4, 2019·Artificial Intelligence

The unintended consequences of technology and why it matters

In this podcast, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar talks about how automated decisions affect billions and what consumers can do to take back control, can a VC firm be a Pixar of VC firms, and the organisational changes Google made to become AI-first

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Aug 2, 2019·Artificial Intelligence

‘As machines become more intelligent, they also become unpredictable’

In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’

Kartik Hosanagar

John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and Professor of Marketing | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Jul 28, 2019·Business & Strategy

Bharat is watching this. Is your brand watching too?

Business As Usual marketers are blissfully insulated from what’s happening on TikTok, an app that has at least 200 million of their own core customers hooked

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

Jul 28, 2019·Economy, Policy & Society

Please look now: We are changing

To make sense of the uncertainties and disruptions around us, we must try and understand the underlying human attitudes and behaviour. There’s much for brands and marketers to learn from the TikTok phenomenon

Piyul Mukherjee

Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited

Jul 23, 2019·Economy, Policy & Society

An ethical toolkit for systems transformers

Sustainable progress of humanity requires a new toolkit with three disciplines: systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and collaborative enterprise design