#365 – EXPLAINABLE AI – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a set of processes and methods that allows human users to comprehend and trust the results and output created by machine learning algorithms.

Explainable AI is used to describe an AI model, its expected impact, and potential biases. It helps characterize model accuracy, fairness, transparency, and outcomes in AI-powered decision making. Explainable AI is crucial for an organization in building trust and confidence when putting AI models into production. AI explain ability also helps an organization adopt a responsible approach to AI development. Continue reading

#436 – MINIMALIZED PACKAGING DESIGNS – LAN ANH NU TON PH.D.

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For decades, marketers of consumer goods designed highly adorned packages, deploying bold colors, snazzy text, cartoons and illustrations to seize the attention of shoppers. Conventional wisdom held that with thousands of products competing against one another in the aisles of big box stores and supermarkets, companies needed to do everything in their power to make their products stand out. Continue reading

#436 – DO YOU HAVE THESE FATAL CAREER FLAWS? – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy – President of the U.S.

In VUCA time, the expression ‘what got you here – won’t get you there’ is particularly applicable. First of all, we don’t know what ‘there’ is in terms of the ‘new normal’. Second, we don’t know the new things we need to do or learn to do to get us somewhere new. I like books that ‘tell it like it is.’ No sugar coating risks and bad behaviors. Marshall Goldsmith – the executive coach – came up with 20 pre-COVID career and work killers: Continue reading

#436 – BUSINESS DISRUPTIONS ARE INEVITABLE – PATRICK OW

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Business disruptions are inevitable. They are not a matter of “if” but “when.”

Whether it’s a power outage, communication failure, or a technological glitch, businesses must proactively prepare for such inevitable challenges. A resource-based approach focusing on power, communication, and technology failures can significantly simplify your business continuity management. Continue reading

#435 – BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO HALT – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) is a technique to expose weaknesses or faults with a product.

HALT uses individual or combined stresses in a step stress approach to quickly apply sufficient stress to reveal defects.

HALT is not a specific chamber or fixed set of test conditions. It is an exploratory process to reveal weaknesses in a design. Continue reading