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Published in Digitizing Polaris

·3 days ago

New B2B ‘Pulse’ App to Build a More Mentally Fit, Less Toxic & More Profitable Workforce

By Merilee Kern, MBA On the heels of its artificial intelligence (AI), Metaverse and interactive 3D virtual employee training and simulation deployments, global leadership development and training company Fierce, Inc. is again changing the way people communicate with each other. This time via the visionary company’s new “Pulse” app poised…

Future Of Work

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New B2B ‘Pulse’ App to Build a More Mentally Fit, Less Toxic & More Profitable Workforce
New B2B ‘Pulse’ App to Build a More Mentally Fit, Less Toxic & More Profitable Workforce

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·5 days ago

This startup makes tools to help front-line employees create instant content

Bites, a Tel Aviv based learning management and employee communications platform, leveraged its successful seed fundraising round by introducing AI tools into its innovative, social-media-styled employee training platform. The AI upgrade makes Bites the first and only tool with the capability to create instant content. Speech enhancement tools eliminate background…

Future Of Work

2 min read

This startup makes tools to help front-line employees create instant content
This startup makes tools to help front-line employees create instant content

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·6 days ago

Employers react to the abortion ruling

Leave it to United States healthcare provider Johnson & Johnson to take the lead. Just a few minutes after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs. Wade the company announced its stance. “Protection of reproductive rights is a critical business issue impacting our work force, our economy and progress…

Future Of Work

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Employers react to the abortion ruling
Employers react to the abortion ruling

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 23

OpenText gears-up to help customers take on bigger problems and win

OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea isn’t one to shy away from problems, instead he tends to see them as challenges that he, his team and his customers can work together to overcome. During the pandemic, for example, OpenText worked with customers in areas like vaccine clinical trials and regulatory approvals, pharmacy…

Information Management

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OpenText gears-up to help customers take on bigger problems and win
OpenText gears-up to help customers take on bigger problems and win

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 22

5 best practices for cloud data protection

Cloud data security measures are critical for data privacy and network security By 2025, Gartner predicts more than 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from just 30% in 2021. Despite the rapid transition to the cloud, most companies do not have an adequate cloud…

Cloud Computing

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5 best practices for cloud data protection
5 best practices for cloud data protection

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 21

How to influence and redirect a dysfunctional/stagnant professional team

In the ideal world of work we all like, trust and respect our coworkers. We embrace our differences and consider them additive versus annoying or argumentetive. But, of course, the world isn’t perfect and bowing to the ideas and approaches of others can be trying, especially if you’re all working…

Future Of Work

3 min read

How to influence and redirect a dysfunctional/stagnant professional team
How to influence and redirect a dysfunctional/stagnant professional team

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 17

Why QSRs should digitize merchandising processes to stay on top of brand standards

Editor’s note: On Fridays we take a look at unique cases of how data is impacting industries we may not normally think about. Today, Sam Roberts of mp35 writes about how data can be leveraged at Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) Data, which brings vision and insight, is key to managing…

Big Data

5 min read

Why QSRs should digitize merchandising processes to stay on top of brand standards
Why QSRs should digitize merchandising processes to stay on top of brand standards

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 16

Presto provider Ahana raises new funding and delivers a forever-free community edition

At a time when investors are steering clear of tech startups, Ahana, the company behind SaaS for Presto, has raised $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures with participation from existing investor GV, extending the company’s Series A financing to $27.2 million. “We weren’t looking for money but Liberty Global Ventures…

Analytics

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Presto provider Ahana raises new funding and delivers a forever-free community edition
Presto provider Ahana raises new funding and delivers a forever-free community edition

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 15

The rise of cold-blooded leadership… and the impending death of inclusion

by Dr. John Sullivan Editor’s note: HR expert Dr. John Sullivan fears that the era in which management heeds employee interests is coming to an end, citing Tesla’s Elon Musk, JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong as proverbial cuckoos in the coalmines. And that was before Coinbase announced that…

Future Of Work

8 min read

The rise of cold-blooded leadership… and the impending death of inclusion
The rise of cold-blooded leadership… and the impending death of inclusion

Published in Digitizing Polaris

·Jun 14

Oracle keeps winning new deals

When companies release their quarterly results, we gain insight as to how they are actually doing. It’s not like the rhetoric we hear during product announcements or conference keynotes (though Oracle’s Chairman of the Board, Larry Ellison played hooky through one in 2013). …

Oracle

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Oracle keeps winning new deals
Oracle keeps winning new deals
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