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The Pitfalls Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Pitfalls Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By Amit Patel   /   April 24, 2023

The unprecedented pace of AI development has taken many people by surprise and has added to a growing unease about this new technology. Fears about the speed of AI development hit a crescendo on March 22nd, 2023, when an open letter signed by tech experts and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, urged all AI labs to […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolutionizes Retail

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolutionizes Retail

By Amit Patel   /   April 17, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting the ways in which many industries do business, and retail is no exception. AI has the potential to revolutionize the retail industry by increasing profits, improving marketing and advertising ROI, increasing sustainability, improving customer service and experience, streamlining inventory management and aiding in loss prevention. It’s predicted that AI services […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Shoring Up Supply Chains

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Shoring Up Supply Chains

By Amit Patel   /   March 27, 2023

In March of 2020, the global supply chain was brought to its knees by COVID-19. When we talk about the supply chains, we’re talking about all the links between resources, processes and businesses that are part of the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of products from start to finish. As we saw during the pandemic, if […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Money For FinTech

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Money For FinTech

By Amit Patel   /   March 15, 2023

On January 31st of 2023, news got out that an AI-powered Equity ETF (AIEQ) from ETF Managers Group was up 13.5% year to date as of January 27th according to data from Morningstar. That’s twice as high as the performance of some other well-known ETFs. And while AIEQ is an actively managed fund with fees […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI): EdTech’s Sharpest Tool

Artificial Intelligence (AI): EdTech’s Sharpest Tool

By Amit Patel   /   February 28, 2023

There has been much hand-wringing about ChatGPT recently and how it might enable a generation of students to simply cheat their way through school. If you’ve been around long enough, you may remember the same worries about the use of handheld calculators in schools. The truth is that every generation will bring new technological advances. […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fuels High-Tech Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fuels High-Tech Healthcare

By Amit Patel   /   February 20, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic helped to speed up tech adoption in the healthcare industry in many ways. In one stunning example of rapid AI development, MIT created an AI program that could listen to a person’s cough and identify a regular cough from a COVID-19 cough, even if the patient was asymptomatic. According to their study […]

Putting The Gig Economy To Work For You

Putting The Gig Economy To Work For You

By Amit Patel   /   January 16, 2023

According to recent statistics posted September 22, 2022 on Zippia, the gig economy has grown by 15 percent in the past decade. That’s 15 times the rate of overall job growth experienced during that time. In addition, at least 48 percent of companies currently hire freelancers and 90 percent of these organizations see gig work […]

The Evolving Role Of The Chief People Officer

The Evolving Role Of The Chief People Officer

By Amit Patel   /   November 18, 2022

The global coronavirus pandemic has forced innumerable changes to why we work, when we work, how we work and where we work. When businesses in every industry were forced to change the way they operated, the roles of employees within those organizations were forced to change as well. One of the roles that has seen […]

How To Build An Inclusive Workplace

How To Build An Inclusive Workplace

By Amit Patel   /   October 3, 2022

It may seem as if the push for corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives began with recent social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and Me Too. But in reality, DEI initiatives began in the early 1960s as a response to the civil rights movement and the subsequent Civil Rights Act of 1964. […]

Innovation: A Catalyst For Change

Innovation: A Catalyst For Change

By Amit Patel   /   September 20, 2022

When dealing with the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are finding that the post-pandemic business recovery is somewhat ambiguous. There are still critical business challenges that need to be examined. For example, during the pandemic, businesses had to pivot quickly and develop alternative approaches to cope with economic uncertainties. Some of these strategies focused […]

How COVID-19 Is Reshaping The Healthcare Industry

How COVID-19 Is Reshaping The Healthcare Industry

By Amit Patel   /   July 14, 2022

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to be fully realized, there is no denying that it has permanently transformed the healthcare system and the way doctors, pharmacies and hospitals do business. As we slowly creep into a post-pandemic world, how we treat patients, deliver medications and administer healthcare will be forever changed. […]

The Future Of Work Is Flexible

The Future Of Work Is Flexible

By Amit Patel   /   June 12, 2022

To quote the late, great Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” As we approach the summer of 2022, we are still dealing with the same issues we had in the summer of 2021 and the summer of 2020. COVID-19 case counts are going up again across the U.S. due to a rise […]

Entering the “New Normal”: Are We Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Too Soon?

Entering the “New Normal”: Are We Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Too Soon?

By Amit Patel   /   May 16, 2022

As the Omicron wave of COVID-19 falls off the backs of our shoulders, many legislators and political leaders have decided to ease pandemic restrictions, which includes lifting mask mandates. Private businesses have followed suit. In fact, most of the country, and the world, is moving forward as if COVID-19 is over. The U.S.’s decision to […]

How COVID Has impacted Higher Education

How COVID Has impacted Higher Education

By Amit Patel   /   March 28, 2022

For this article, we interviewed a wide variety of students, teachers and administrators to get their insights on the effects of COVID-19 on higher education in the U.S. For the broad purposes of this article, we use higher education and post-secondary education to refer to colleges (community colleges, technical schools and liberal arts colleges) and […]

How COVID-19 Has Impacted The Travel And Tourism Industry

How COVID-19 Has Impacted The Travel And Tourism Industry

By Amit Patel   /   March 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it many things — sickness, disease, financial loss, anxiety, fear — and it completely transformed life as we once knew it. Although the pandemic has impacted virtually every industry, it hit one particularly hard. According to the World Tourism Organization, “global tourism suffered its worst year on record in 2020, […]

How COVID-19 Reenergized Social Media Use In The Business World

How COVID-19 Reenergized Social Media Use In The Business World

By Amit Patel   /   March 14, 2022

Is your business struggling to effectively utilize social media? If so, you’re not alone. The coronavirus pandemic has taught us several valuable lessons, and one of the most important lessons learned has been the need for effective communication. With supply chain shortages, longer shipping times, pandemic regulations and social unrest, the need to communicate with […]

Is There a Labor Shortage? Yes, But It’s Complicated.

Is There a Labor Shortage? Yes, But It’s Complicated.

By   /   January 13, 2022

No doubt you’ve heard the laments. People don’t want to work. Employers can’t fill jobs. Businesses are closing early because they’re short-staffed. Even if you haven’t heard the grumbling firsthand, you’ve likely seen headlines like, “Staff Quit” Sign Posted on Family Dollar Store as Employees Walk Out. Or, you might have noticed the “Help Wanted” […]

Why You Need To Join The Conversation On Mental Health

Why You Need To Join The Conversation On Mental Health

By Amit Patel   /   January 6, 2022

This past January, CNN predicted that mental health would be one of the biggest issues of 2021. As we near the end of another unprecedented year, we can all agree that their predictions have proven to be correct. This shouldn’t come as a surprise after months of pandemic stress, natural disasters, political upheavals, and countless […]

The Supply Chain Disruption: Past, Present & Future

The Supply Chain Disruption: Past, Present & Future

By Amit Patel   /   December 20, 2021

It’s been a breakdown of epic proportions, and it all started with toilet paper. In March of 2020, the global supply chain was brought to its knees by Covid-19, and today, 20 months later, we’re still seeing massive disruptions in the form of empty supermarket shelves, higher priced goods and clogged shipping ports, just to […]

The Great Resignation: Retaining Employees And Attracting New Talent

The Great Resignation: Retaining Employees And Attracting New Talent

By Amit Patel   /   December 13, 2021

In our last blog post, we discussed the phenomenon now known as, The Great Resignation. As a quick refresher, The Great Resignation describes the mass exodus of employees from the labor market that has occurred in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. In April of 2021, the U.S. began to see a record number of […]