The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks, creativity tools to virtual companions.  Six months ago, we did a deep dive into web…

America Needs More Techno-Optimism

In this fireside chat from the American Dynamism Summit, a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen sits down with economist, podcaster, and polymath Tyler Cowen to discuss the state of innovation in America, from recent AI advances to growing support for nuclear power. They’ll explain why the future many people…

Adopting subscription billing software to support B2B sales

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In part five of our Drive to Subscribe series, we look into the critical factors to consider when adopting subscription billing software and examine a specific B2B sales use case supported by these advanced technologies.The subscription market is continuing to grow at a significant pace, with subscription businesses growing 4.6x…

Make Social Media Your Secret Weapon: 4 Tips to Develop Your Personal Brand Online

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  • Reading time:7 mins read

In today’s fast-paced and hyperconnected world, personal branding is not just important, it’s essential!  Having a stellar reputation is simply no longer enough. If you want to make it in today’s competitive professional landscape, it’s time to be proactive and start crafting a personal brand that reflects who you are…

Our Guide to the Spring 2024 Issue

subscribe-icon Subscribe Share Who Profits the Most From Generative AI? Kartik Hosanagar and Ramayya Krishnan Key Insight: A breakdown of what it takes to build and deploy a large language model shows where incumbents have the best prospects for success and where newer companies have an edge. Top Takeaways: Since…

How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story

Brian Kenny: It's hard to find a better example of an inventive genius than Thomas Alva Edison, creator of the light bulb, the phonograph, alkaline batteries, x-rays, and over a thousand other devices that changed the world. And he was equally prolific in business, launching over 100 companies to promote…

Civility Partners at 15 Years!

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2024 marks an incredible milestone for us—our 15th-anniversary celebration! Yes, you read that right—15 years of making a positive impact on over 270 organizations served, thousands of employees, and millions of people worldwide! Thanks to the vision of our founder and CEO, Catherine Mattice. Our History Catherine started Civility Partners…

Playing Nice in the Sandbox: FDA (Finally) Harmonizes Medical Device Manufacturing Requirements With ISO

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  • Reading time:12 mins read

On February 2, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a much-awaited final rule: the Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR).1  By issuing this rule, FDA amended the medical device current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements of 21 CFR Part 820 – the Quality System Regulation (QSR) – to…

Will the Shifting Economic Power Balance Topple Democracy?

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Changes in the graph (Figure 2) may result from changes in the relative share of global GDP of a country (even if the democracy scores are constant) or from changes in the individual democracy scores (even if GDP shares are constant). For example, from the late 1970s to 1989, the…

Where is customer care in 2024?

Customer care leaders are facing their greatest challenge in decades. They must prepare their organizations for an AI-enabled future while simultaneously meeting tough commercial targets and rising customer expectations. Our latest global survey suggests that many companies are struggling on all these fronts.Major disruptions are always painful, and the transition…

2024 Wine, Spirits, and Beer Industry Trends

  As we begin 2024, the wine, spirits, and beer industry is still reeling with the changes in the aftermath of the pandemic. The greatest challenge facing the industry is dealing with the ever-changing ebbs and flows of alcohol consumption trends and demands. As consumers adjusted to a more home-centered…

Let’s Get to Work

Topics Leadership Leading Change Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series subscribe-icon Subscribe Share Jon Krause Our ambition at MIT Sloan Management Review is to arm business leaders with information to make a positive impact: on your…

Proposed New Jersey Bill Would Lower Harassment Standard and Mandate Anti-Harassment Policy and Training

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A pending bill in New Jersey’s legislature would significantly lower the standard for establishing harassment claims and require employers to implement anti-harassment training and policies and report complaint data to a government agency. Earlier this year, New Jersey legislators introduced Assembly Bill 2443 (“AB 2443” or the “Bill”),…

Tennessee Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking NCAA’s NIL Restrictions

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Quick Hits A federal district court in Tennessee recently issued a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the NCAA’s NIL-recruiting ban with respect to student-athletes. The court found that the ban limited student-athletes’ negotiation leverage and prevented them from understanding “their true NIL value.” The court held that the recruiting ban…

Major investment in doctoral training announced

The 65 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) will support leading research in areas of national importance, including net zero, AI, defence and security, healthcare and quantum technologies. The £1 billion in funding – from government, universities and industry – represents the UK’s biggest-ever…

6 Mistakes to Avoid During Strategy Execution

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When an organization has successful strategy execution, it is more likely to go from good to great. Strategy to execution affects every part of a business, and its effective use is essential for not only an organization’s success but its survival. A strategy to execution approach is specifically designed to help a business transform its […] The post 6 Mistakes to Avoid During Strategy Execution appeared first on Accelare.

Future of Retail

1. Smart environments The widespread adoption of IoT devices and sensors will create interactive store environments that respond to individual customers. These environments could adjust lighting, music, and product displays based on customer preferences, creating a truly unique and immersive shopping experience. 2. Biometric identification and payment As biometric technology…

Reality Check: Deglobalization

Radar Amid supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions, is the U.S. less reliant on imports than it used to be? Omri Nahmias March 11, 2024 Reading Time: 2 min  Topics Radar Brief insights on emerging trends in management from the opening pages of MIT Sloan Management Review’s quarterly print magazine.…

OFCCP Proposes Changes to Construction Contractor Scheduling Letter and Contract Award Notification Requirement Form

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Quick Hits Covered construction contractors may be required to provide additional data and documentation in response to the construction compliance review scheduling letter and itemized listing. Covered construction contractors may be required to provide additional information on Form CC-314 about new construction contract awards that exceed $10,000. Comments on the…

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

Managers almost universally say they want to see passion in their employees. Yet sometimes, they can’t spot it when it’s right in front of them.Extroverted employees are more likely to be considered passionate compared to more introverted colleagues—even if it’s not true—according to recent Harvard Business School research. That’s because…

Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Work Culture

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Employees quit their jobs for different reasons, and a major one is because of a toxic workplace environment. In fact, researchers discovered that between April and September 2021, toxic culture was the main reason why employees decided to leave their jobs. A toxic work culture refers to a situation where…

What can we expect in China in the year of the dragon?

As 2024 gains momentum, it’s significant to note that this year is marked by the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese zodiac. The dragon, symbolizing strength and good fortune, frames the backdrop for China’s journey forward after a challenging 2023. The previous year saw China navigating the aftermath…

Your Dream Job May Not Exist (and That’s Okay)

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For decades, the mantra “follow your passion” has been one of the most popular pieces of career advice. Ever since Steve Jobs famously told Stanford graduates back in 2005 to “find what you love”, university students have been nudged to pursue careers that align perfectly with their personal interests. But…

Bringing innovation to a not-for-profit setting

In this episode of The Committed Innovator, American Red Cross chief innovation officer Sajit Joseph speaks with McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth about the challenges and opportunities involved with innovation in a not-for-profit setting, where the goal is return on impact and teams can include volunteers. This is an edited…

How to Spot the Next Technology Breakthrough

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If your company is working on a new technology that has yet to pass this inflection point, what must happen to get you there?The evolution of new technologies follows an S-curve. In the beginning, there is a long incubation period during which technological development and use are confined to basic…

Why You Should Give Employees Skin in the Game

Topics Radar Brief insights on emerging trends in management from the opening pages of MIT Sloan Management Review’s quarterly print magazine. More in this series subscribe-icon Subscribe Share MIT Sloan Management Review: What spurred your focus on employee ownership? Vicente Reynal: As a leader, I had experienced great equity appreciation…

Generative AI is only as good as the data you feed it

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Generative AI is the pinnacle of data science. It will boost profits, reduce costs, and help you expand into new markets. To take full advantage of generative AI’s capabilities, train your models on all your data. Taylor Brown The world is being transformed by AI-assisted medicine, education, scientific research, law, and…

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers find difficult to navigate.The situation demands a dramatic overhaul of how policymakers,…

Third millennium thinking

Awash in a tsunami of often-conflicting information, people tend to look to experts for guidance on what to believe and what to do. If an expert comes across as highly confident and their opinion dovetails with one’s political views or confirms what one’s social circle tends to believe, then the…

Using M&A as a launchpad for transformation

M &A can offer a powerful lever for executing strategy, transforming organizations, and delivering exceptional value creation. In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, two McKinsey experts talk about how executives under pressure to create more value for shareholders and stakeholders can benefit from using a transaction…

Investing in Kaedim

The games industry has a cost problem. Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. Yet that growth has come with a price…

How to Make AI ‘Forget’ All the Private Data It Shouldn’t Have

There’s a virtual elephant in AI’s room: It’s nearly impossible to make the technology forget.And there are an increasing number of scenarios where consumers and programmers may not only want to remove data from a machine learning model—they may be required to do so by law. For instance, since Europe’s…

Can a Wage Increase Make Employees More Productive?

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In California, the upcoming minimum wage boost for fast food workers to $20 starting April 1st has ignited discussions about its potential influence on worker productivity.  Currently, the median hourly wage for fast-food workers in the U.S. is $13.43, while in California, it stands at an average of $16.60 per…

The journey toward AI-enabled railway companies

Many types of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have accelerated in recent years due to tumbling costs of data storage and processing, rapidly expanding data availability, and improved data storage and modelling techniques. In general, analytical AI can analyze historical data and make numeric predictions, while generative AI (gen AI) allows…

New Sanctions Against Russia: Taking a Swing at the Ruble

Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions against Russia, as expected. In quantitative terms, the number of Russian companies and citizens subject to restrictive measures was indeed high. However,…

It’s time for a new managed services model

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Managed services was born out of a need to outsource responsibility for monitoring and maintaining certain services, or more often specialized appliances such as on-prem data warehouse solutions or rather cumbersome ETL servers or network configurations. Between 2005 and 2006 this outsourcing practice became what it is today, IT managed…

Winning the Game of Boardroom Chess

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It is broadly understood that bold, expansive postures and gestures convey power and credibility. But how often have executives entered a meeting confident in achieving their goal, only to leave blindsided – unsure of how the power dynamics shifted in favour of an opposing viewpoint? Most people assume that their actions…