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August 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: AI-assisted app development, solar roads, biofuels, micro ATMs and brain-AI integration
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
In a slowdown, consumers become more choosy. Are auto majors doing enough to develop and launch next generation cars that today’s consumers find desirable?
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Innovation is easier in the digital era. Yet, capturing value from innovation is becoming more challenging. This calls for the leader’s role to change to that of chief experimenter
Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
Implementing agile principles isn’t easy. It needs leaders who feel secure letting go of power and trusting the team to discover where may answers lie
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Google’s Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle share what they learnt from their mentor, legendary coach Bill Campbell, in their book ‘Trillion Dollar Coach’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
AI systems may be making important decisions that will fundamentally affect the lives of Indians. For AI to be truly transformative though, its ethical biases need to be rooted out
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital
China and the US are already locked in a race to become the AI superpower. China seems to have a lead. It is creating an ecosystem for AI through state sponsorship and the innovations by entrepreneurial ventures
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In this podcast, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar talks about how automated decisions affect billions and what consumers can do to take back control, can a VC firm be a Pixar of VC firms, and the organisational changes Google made to become AI-first
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In 2016, Go world champion Lee Sedol lost to AlphaGo, Google’s Go-playing AI program. How did the program do this? And why does this feat matter? Kartik Hosanagar answers that in this extract from his book, ‘A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence’
Kartik Hosanagar
John C. Hower Professor of Technology and Digital Business and Professor of Marketing | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Business As Usual marketers are blissfully insulated from what’s happening on TikTok, an app that has at least 200 million of their own core customers hooked
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
To make sense of the uncertainties and disruptions around us, we must try and understand the underlying human attitudes and behaviour. There’s much for brands and marketers to learn from the TikTok phenomenon
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder | Quipper Research Private Limited
Sustainable progress of humanity requires a new toolkit with three disciplines: systems thinking, ethical reasoning, and collaborative enterprise design
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India | Member, Planning Commission
When we miss seeing the small shifts that happen by the passing minute, we get presented with the big disruption one fine day
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A Facebook Live conversation with Piyul Mukherjee from Quipper Research; Damodar Mall from Reliance Retail; and Ashwin Suresh from Pocket Aces
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Is it a passing fad? Is it here to stay? A multimedia story on what’s driving the phenomenon
Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
