Forbes Column 08: Building A Smarter Corporation
Here’s a new piece from Forbes, Building A Smarter Corporation, which discusses the use of sophisticated AI to enhance enterprise collaboration.
This segment is a part in the series : Forbes Column 08
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Sramana:
Facinating article.
Across the board we see companies put a renewed emphasis on worker productivity via better collaboration and sharing of ideas. To stay ahead in the game, companies are starting to allocate more and more dollars toward improving their human capital asset (employees) over industria capital asset (supply chain).
Enterprises are starting to understand how critical this type of collaboration is. A good illustration is Sun Microsystems who recently launched their “Sun Learning Exchange” platform to allow employees to create and share their knowledge as video. It allows them to give access to knowledge across geographies..and generations. See this captivating keynote their CTO of Learning gave at Office 2.0:
http://www.office20.com/docs/DOC-1127