Monthly Archives: October 2017

What Machine Learning Can Mean for Your Business

by Successful IBO • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Machine learning can be more helpful to your business than you might think.

Conversations with AI: Navigating the World of Consumers and Chatbots

by Successful IBO • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Brands are increasingly using AI-powered chatbots to automate customer service. Here’s how this technology is evolving and how consumers are reacting to it.

How This Mom Left the Corporate World For the Comfort of Home

by Holly - The Work at Home Woman • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Lisa Kanarek left the corporate world over 20 years ago and has been working from home commute-free, boss-free, and annoying-co-worker-free ever since. For the first five years, she didn’t let anyone know that she worked from home because she wanted to seem professional and definitely not the small, one-person business that she was. But after […]

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Taxing the robots – Far sighted or fanciful?

by Owen Gough • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

When you know a storm is coming, you have a sense of its likely form, speed, direction, potential impact, and possible duration. Armed with that knowledge you can then take in provisions, batten down the hatches and go to a place of safety. When that storm is in the form of artificial intelligence (AI) software
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UK ‘job boom’ proves businesses are remaining confident

by Owen Gough • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Businesses across the UK proved to be resilient in the face of ongoing uncertainty last quarter, as the nation witnessed a widespread jobs boom. That’s according to the latest data from CV-Library which compared statistics from Q3 2017, with that of the same period last year. The data finds the nation as a whole witnessed
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New report uncovers ‘post code lottery’ of small business productivity

by Owen Gough • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

Sage and Nesta have published a data-rich report highlighting a concerning productivity gap, with the most productive part of the UK (City of London) a huge 26 times more productive than the least (West Somerset). For the first time, the report, produced in conjunction with Nesta, the innovation foundation, looks at a huge range of
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Why the right office space is an overlooked enabler for growth

by Owen Gough • October 23, 2017 • 0 Comments

As one of the biggest overheads for SMEs after salaries, office rental should be viewed as a critical financial consideration for most businesses. However, rather than being viewed simply as a sunk cost, finding the right office space can not only minimise expenditure, but actually boost productivity. Traditionally, the ability to attract talent, innovate services
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