IAOP, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals last month announced a strategic alliance with Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA). The relationship will leverage both organizations’ expertise to collectively advance impact sourcing as a business practice that impacts local communities by creating jobs in the BPO industry in underserved areas. “Employment for high potential but...
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New Speakers Announced For Digital Transformation Andes 2019
With just over a month to go, the Digital Transformation Andes Summit, held at the Habitel Hotel & Convention Center in Bogotá near the El Dorado International Airport has announced exciting new speakers relevant to executives charged with making key strategy and IT decisions in their enterprises. Amikam Yalokevsky from global technology giant Mediatek will...
PayPal’s CTO Sri Shivananda Talks Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, & Whether Cryptocurrencies Have A Future
20 years ago, PayPal was a scrappy startup, a FinTech disruptor. 2 decades later, the company is a financial giant, in some ways part of the financial establishment it initially took on. Still, the industry continues to evolve, and new technologies threaten even currency itself. Cognitive Business News founder and publisher Loren Moss recently was...
Forrester: 2019 Will Be Fork-in-the-Road Moment for Digital Transformation
"The revolution was interrupted . . . but hopefully not stopped," writes Carrie Johnson of Forrester Research.
The Benefits of Crowdsourcing Innovation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
In exploring the benefits of using AI to generate ideas, Ricardo Garza of Softtek explains that one of the most intriguing aspects of neural network technology is its ability to discern patterns that humans overlook. Businesses have long recognized that the best and most innovative ideas usually come from the front lines – originating from the individuals...
PWC and CINTEL to Honor the Best Digital Transformation in Colombia at Andicom 2018
Global consultancy PWC has partnered again this year with local information technology organization CINTEL to recognize the Colombian companies that have achieved the most when it comes to business transformation. The winners of this second-annual prize will be announced next week during Andicom 2018, the largest ITC and innovation conference in Colombia, in four different...
Japan Opens Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution in Tokyo to Influence Tech Policy
The World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, today opened the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan alongside inaugural partners Hitachi, Horiba, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Salesforce, Sompo Holdings and Suntory Holdings. The Tokyo-based Center will bring together leading businesses, start-ups, civil society, academia and international organizations to shape the trajectory of emerging...
Though Slow to Innovate in the Past, Mining Is Now Ripe for Disruptive Change
“Of all the industries in the world right now, mining might actually be the ripest for disruptive change."
Study: Digital Transformation to Begin Adding $150 Billion to Indian GDP by 2021
Digital transformation will begin adding more than $150 billion to the GDP of India each year by 2021 and begin pushing overall economic expansion by an annual growth rate of 1%.
Frenemies: IBM Teams with Google on Power9 to Compete Against Intel and Amazon in Machine Learning, Data Centers
After spurring Intel’s growth in the CPU market and making the technology company a household name, IBM may be issuing a direct challenge to the chip maker by releasing its new Power9 CPU to the open market. In what may turn out to be a soap opera without the sex or bad lighting, Google seems...