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Tech Trends In Practice: The 25 Technologies That Are Driving The 4th Industrial Revolution

How will the latest technologies transform your business? Future Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today’s most important technology trends, and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business. The book presents25 real-world technology trends along with their potential contributions to organisational success. You’ll learn how to integrate existing advancements and plan for those that are on the way.

In this book, best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of technology in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries. He covers wide-ranging trends and provides an overview of how companies are using these new and emerging technologies in practice.

You, too, can prepare your company for the potential and power of trending technology by examining these and other areas of innovation described in Future Tech Trends in Practice:

• Artificial intelligence, including machine and deep learning
• The Internet of Things and the rise of smart devices
• Self-driving cars and autonomous drones
• 3D printing and additive manufacturing
• Blockchain technology
• Genomics and gene editing
• Augmented, virtual and mixed reality

When you understand the technology trends that are driving success, now and into the future, you’ll be better positioned to address and solve problems within your organisation.

Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Trends That are Redefining Organizations

We have never lived at a time of faster and more transformative technological and societal changes. It can be hard for executives to keep up with the developments and shifts. This book cuts through all of the hype and presents the key business trends anyone should be aware of now as they will shape businesses into the foreseeable future. 

Business Trends in Practice includes case studies across all industries, with companies such as: Tesla, Ocado, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Apple, and many more. Some of the key trends the author will examine include:

• The AI revolution
• Robots and business processes automation
• Remote working, working from home and new flexibility
• Social & environmental Responsibility
• Increased Diversity

As part of Bernard Marr’s popular ‘In Practice’ series, Business Trends in Practice will help you identify the key business trends that will keep you one step ahead of the competition.

The Intelligence Revolution: Transforming Your Business With AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. No longer confined to the world of science fiction, AI has infiltrated the mainstream and is the new electricity for business. Bestselling author, Bernard Marr, shows you how to harness and integrate it with your business strategy.

We all know about driverless cars, automated production lines and chatbots but how do you ensure your business keeps up and where do you start? Bestselling author and strategy guru, Bernard Marr, argues that AI absolutely applies to your business and explains how to design an AI strategy that will guarantee its success. The Intelligence Revolution explores the opportunities and challenges that come with this monumental new taskforce that is defining the new standards of business.

Guiding us through intelligent products, services and work processes, The Intelligence Revolution illustrates how new technologies are impacting customer experience, product and service design and work efficiency. Bernard Marr delights us with fascinating case studies of businesses excelling at maximizing the potential of AI like Netflix, Autodesk, Disney, Rolls Royce and Amazon.

Don’t be left behind. Instead, discover how to turbocharge your business.

Beyond The Big Data Buzz: How Data Is Disrupting Every Business In Every Industry In The World

This eBook looks at the practical impact Big Data is having on business and organisations in:

• Healthcare
• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Financial Services, Banking and Insurance
• Education
• Transport and Logistics
• Agriculture and Farming
• Energy
• Government and Public Sector
• Hospitalities, Hotels and Restaurants
• Professional Services
• Sports
• Businesses built on data

This eBook is a must read for anyone who would like a complete overview of what big data really means, industry by industry.

More With Less: Maximizing Value In The Public Sector

Value for money is about obtaining the maximum benefit with the resources available. While value for money decisions are a daily reality in all our lives were we are constantly judging between costs and benefits, this is a major focus and challenge for all public sector organisations.

Public sector organizations are experiencing one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch. Across the world public sector pursues are shrinking as national Governments pay off the debt of averting global economies from the horrors of depression and deal with the budget deficits resulting from reduced tax-income during the recession.

In order to cope with the challenges, perhaps more than ever before public sector leaders need to instil strong performance improvement disciplines into their organizations: disciplines that enable these leaders to fully understand:

1. What key outcomes and priority deliverables they must accomplish
2. How to allocate reduced financial resources so to make the most positive impact on service levels and outcomes.
3. Where to reduce costs and improve efficiencies without jeopardising service delivery

In this timely book the authors address the efficiency drive following the credit crunch using the real-life examples and case studies from across the world, such as Audit Scotland, Belfast City Council, Brisbane City Council, City of Charlotte, Civil Service College (Singapore) the FBI, the NHS, Ministry of Works (Bahrain), Royal Canadian Mounted Police, US Postal Service and many more.

Perspectives on Intellectual Capital

Perspectives on Intellectual Capital bridges the disciplinary gaps and facilitates knowledge transfer across disciplines, featuring views on intellectual capital from the fields of accounting, strategy, marketing, human resource management, operations management, information systems, and economics.

It also offers interdisciplinary views on intellectual capital from the perspectives of public policy, knowledge management and epistemology. By analyzing the various perspectives, Editor Bernard Marr is able to present a truly comprehensive understanding of what intellectual capital is, including the “state of the art” thinking about it in each discipline, the common key trends, and the trajectories for future developments, learning, and practice.