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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

One area where Goodhart’s Law gets even more dangerous is in target-based software development, especially Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. In 2015, Google used machine learning to let Google Photos tag faces of friends in uploaded photos. That way it could not die.

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

The Grid Edge includes the innovative solutions of hardware, software, and business innovation that are enabling smart infrastructure to be installed at or near the “edge” of the electric power grid. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model. degree mark.

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Gaining a Competitive Edge Through eLearning by Costa

CMOE

However, that’s not the only reason you should consider developing custom content for your organization’s learning & development needs. Custom learning content has the potential to put your organization ahead of the curve. The modern learner does not learn well through long-winded, information-heavy courses.

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? In 2014 Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion, and it is now on target to hit one billion active users by the end of 2015. So which one is it?

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

According to Global Human Capital Trends 2015 pg 36, “Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent.”.

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Innovation Inspiration – Driving Sustainability at Ford, ESB, and Solvay

Qmarkets

Qmarkets works on an ongoing basis with hundreds of the world’s most innovative companies who use idea and innovation management software for a wide variety of use cases, from new product development to continuous improvement.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.