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Digital trends: how 2016 will inform 2017

 

Digitally transformed businesses will investigate artificial intelligence, and are likely to embrace chat to streamline customer service, writes Anton Moulder

What are the digital business trends that will influence your business in 2017? Digitally transformed businesses will investigate artificial intelligence, look at Bitcoin’s blockchain, are likely to embrace chat to streamline customer service, and will put what makes sense to the customer — rather than the business — at the centre of services design.

Artificial intelligence

The year 2016 was the year when everyone explored artificial intelligence (AI), but 2017 will be the year that local companies put budget into, and start using basic AI. For those who have not fallen down the AI rabbit hole or seen Westworld, the aim of artificial intelligence is for machines to replicate human intelligence. This means they can sense their environment, and use autonomous, rational “thinking” to do something or to reach a goal.

Tech monoliths like […]

2017-04-20T20:13:42+02:00April 20th, 2017|Entrepreneurship, Environments|
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The world’s first lab-grown chicken tenders look better than McNuggets

The world’s first lab-grown chicken tenders look better than McNuggets

Chris Smith @chris_writes

March 15th, 2017 at 9:01 PM

A Bay Area food startup just served the world’s first chicken strips made that was cultivated in a lab directly from cells. No chicken was killed to obtain it, and fewer resources were consumed to make it, although it’s still a pretty expensive process. However, this type of growing meat could revolutionize the meat industry in the future, as different startups are already growing various kinds of meat, not just chicken.

Clean meat is a new meat-growing concept that promises to fix a bunch of problems. On the one hand, Earth’s growing population is consuming more and more food. On the other hand, growing said food in the wild can be costly for the environment. Not to mention that animal advocacy groups still take issues with the way animals are raised and slaughtered.

Talking to  […]

2017-06-23T14:01:54+02:00April 20th, 2017|2017 Case Study|
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Labour relations South Africa

Question: An employee fell ill and was unable to perform his duties as his condition deteriorated day by day. The employer took him to the doctor, who only provided a sick note. The employee exhausted his sick leave during this period, and has subsequently been off sick for several months. The employer had to appoint someone in the employee’s place for operational reasons. What happens to the sick employee now?

Read more at Employee off for several months due to ill health

2017-03-05T13:21:39+02:00March 5th, 2017|Human Capital|
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Whats in our fast food?

Canadian fast food test shows Subway poultry contains only around 50 percent or less of chicken DNA, supplemented by soy

DAN GUNDERMAN: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 10:48 AM

 Subway’s oven-roasted chicken sub sandwhich. A recent CBC investigation determined that the restaurant’s chicken DNA numbers in their popular sandwiches were only around 50 percent. Subway disagreed with the findings.

Soy what!?

A Canadian investigation into the contents in fast-food chicken has shown that Subway’s numbers are quite alarming.

The finding: it’s oven-roasted chicken … Read more at What are we eating in Quick Service Restaurants

2017-06-23T14:02:28+02:00March 5th, 2017|2017 Case Study, Ethics|
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