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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt business activity across the globe, organisations are reacting to unexpected challenges and adopting new business practices to align with social distancing, school closures and other public health measures. With this, organisations require a sudden shift to employees working from home, most literally overnight. A modernised collaboration and…
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Janna Anderson, professor of communications and director of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University, is the lead author of the report The Metaverse in 2040, published in partnership with Pew Research. She is a senior contract researcher for Pew and co-leads the center’s 19-year series of reports outlining experts’ predictions for the most likely future of digital life. The full…
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The big picture: The metaverse has the potential to be a disruptive, expansive and transformative force, even to the point of spawning its own economy. Every board has a fiduciary duty to evaluate that potential for its company’s future.
By the numbers: According to a survey of 250 global business leaders, the metaverse has the potential to dramatically alter the future of the human experience…
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Governmental agencies can be seen as slow to adopt new processes, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, this foreign defense agency needed to make a quick shift to remote working for both civilian and non-civilian employees while maintaining a high level of readiness. They urgently rolled out Microsoft 365 to enable remote work and communication for approximately 60,000 of their approximately 150,…
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Over the past year, as one crypto organisation after another has been beset by fraud or declared bankruptcy, countless headlines have surfaced warning of the death of the crypto industry. Yet the damage has been largely contained.
The developments have raised many questions about digital assets, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as well as regulation and other factors that may help the…
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Over the past year, as one crypto organisation after another has been beset by fraud or declared bankruptcy, countless headlines have surfaced warning of the death of the crypto industry. Yet the damage has been largely contained.
The developments have raised many questions about digital assets, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as well as regulation and other factors that may help the…
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In late 2020, physicists in China generated controversy by claiming quantum advantage with a photonic quantum computing system that’s technically not programmable. Other companies have been experimenting with photonic systems, including QuiX Quantum. How do these machines work? Should scientists redefine what quantum advantage means, focusing on practical, usable problems a machine is solving?…
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Finance’s most pressing priorities include FP&A, security, cloud applications driven by organisations leadership
Findings from Protiviti’s latest Global Finance Trends Survey reveal that SAP customers are adjusting their finance priorities at the behest of their CFOs. The focus is shifting from pandemic trends, such as accelerated digitalisation and remote work, to strategic planning…
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In late 2020, physicists in China generated controversy by claiming quantum advantage with a photonic quantum computing system that’s technically not programmable. Other companies have been experimenting with photonic systems, including QuiX Quantum. How do these machines work? Should scientists redefine what quantum advantage means, focusing on practical, usable problems a machine is solving?…
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This Florida-based organisation has grown from a small community back to one of the state’s largest financial institutions. Over time, the bank built its reputation by maintaining the personalised service of a community bank while investing in the talent, technology and financial products customers expect from a large bank – from facilitating inbound investments and empowering small businesses to…
