Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog April 11, 2023 Protiviti-Oxford survey: Global leaders place bets on the metaverse, North America goes all in Two-thirds of all global business leaders say the metaverse will have a significant economic impact overall and be important to their company’s business success over the next decade. A stunning 82% of executives in North America say they are already using the metaverse for business, compared to just over a third in Europe and Asia-Pacific.Of all the emerging technologies that will enable the… Blog April 26, 2023 Microsoft’s Charles Drayton: The metaverse will benefit from a Web 3 world "In my view, the metaverse itself is going to take a more practical form for organizations like Microsoft, primarily in business types of applications." "A lot of the genuine users, a lot of them are children. My nephew is eight years old, and a lot of children are building these very sophisticated applications, these very sophisticated games and levels on it. So I think if we’re going to see… Blog November 2, 2021 Protiviti's Claire Gotham and Tyler Chase on powering the city of the future The rapid growth of cities, which currently consume 78% of the planet’s primary energy, electricity use is going to soar in the coming years.Nonprofit Rewiring America has predicted the creation of 25 million new jobs of all types in the United States over the next 15 years, with five million sustained jobs by mid-century.As IoT grows exponentially, data platforms will become more important in… Blog November 4, 2021 Protiviti-Oxford survey: Cities will be more strategically important in 2030 64% of C-suite and board members agree that the role of cities for business will increase during the next 10 years61% of global business leaders emphasize the growing benefits of city size, significance, and prestige.In North America and Asia-Pacific, the city as a technology hub is viewed as the dominant driver that would attract a business to the city. In Europe, it’s the talent pool. Blog November 24, 2021 UAE’s Masdar City execs: ‘We’re building the most innovative place on Earth’ All our future construction will be net-zero buildings, which is pretty rare anywhere but especially in this part of the world.We want Masdar City to be that living lab where you can test technology, develop it and then implement it.I’m glad we slowed down from our original development plans, because what we end up with here is going to be better than what we had originally envisioned. Blog February 14, 2022 Quantum computing will revolutionize work: Here are six ways leaders can leverage its power One classical machine learning approach optimized a portfolio in 33 hours; hybrid quantum annealing produced similar results in three minutes.We will soon reach a tipping point when quantum revolutionizes information security, fraud detection, logistics and other optimization- and simulation-friendly activities.Most organizations will struggle to find and hire the quantum talent they need. Blog February 14, 2022 Cambridge dean: A revolution is coming! How to prepare for a radically new working world Business leaders need to abandon old clichés about jobs and embrace the principles of distributed work and the virtual corporation.It’s possible that people may pursue not just one career, profession or occupation over their lifetimes, but rather two or three.We should move away from concepts such as “remote work” or “hybrid work,” and embrace smarter ways of organizing work. Blog February 16, 2022 View from the Vice Chair: Morgan Stanley’s Carla Harris on how we’ll work in 2030 and beyond 3:02 – Leadership, in particular, is going to have to be far more engaging and far more involved in defining what culture is all about.6:51 – I don’t think the talent shortage will be a problem by the time we get to 2030. This is a short-term phenomenon.13:12 – Last question: If you have a five-building campus, why wouldn’t you take one of those buildings and turn it into an early-childcare… Blog February 23, 2022 View from Down Under: NSW’s Chief Data Scientist on technology and the future of work 4:05 - Increasingly, we are not just connecting with people, we’re also connecting with devices, and devices are connecting with devices. Those futuristic ideas of the Internet of things suddenly become much more significant, much more important.10:58 - AI will play an increasingly important role. The good thing is we’re still a long way from that point of singularity where AI is much, much… Blog February 28, 2022 WarnerMedia’s global head of equity and inclusion: "Brain diverse" organizations will rule the future Genuinely diverse and inclusive environments create better output, more innovation, higher productivity and enhanced problem solving. Ironically, we've probably connected more on the human level with each other in the virtual world the last two years than we did before the pandemic.If you haven’t built diversity into your company, or into the design, or into the team working on it, you will end… Load More
