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Nearly all B2B executives consider customer experience (CX) to be a critical factor for success, according to recent Accenture Strategy research. Yet, only 20 percent of B2B companies are distinguished as CX masters.B2B CX masters achieve twice the returns on their CX investments than their peers. They take threats and opportunities more seriously, invest more strategically, and focus on buildi...

IBM Research have developed a system that can predict with a high degree of accuracy whether a person will develop psychosis just from their speech patterns.Psychiatrist characterize schizophrenia, a mental condition with devastating effects on those who suffer it, by a set of intuitively understandable concepts including “poverty of speech” and “flight of ideas.” These concepts, however, a...

Nexar, a startup that makes an AI-based dashcam app to monitor road safety, announced today that it has raised a $30 million Series B led by Ibex Ventures. Participants included Alibaba Innovation Ventures (the venture capital investment arm of Alibaba Group), Nationwide Insurance and returning investors Aleph, Mosaic Ventures, Slow Ventures, True Ventures and Tusk Ventures.Nexar’s dashcam app...

Agile organizations—of any size and across industries—have five key elements in common.Our experience and research demonstrate that successful agile organizations consistently exhibit the five trademarks described in this article. The trademarks include a network of teams within a people-centered culture that operates in rapid learning and fast decision cycles which are enabled by technology,...

Australian research group CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) will be using aquatic drones to explore the Southern Ocean. The government agency has announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Saildrone, and will be utilizing three of the startup's unmanned vehicles for the next five years.The Saildrones themselves are propelled by the wind, and their electr...

New year, new giant investments for SoftBank. Earlier this week, SoftBank officially closed its $9.3 billion investment in Uber, making SoftBank Uber’s largest shareholder.We learned Friday that SoftBank could be looking for an uncommonly large 45 percent stake in dog-walking app Wag in return for investing up to $300 million in the company. Of course, that would barely be a drop in the bucket...

CoreSport Shirts Channel the Cooling Properties of Sweat.Though sweat can feel uncomfortable, it's actually an ingenious way that the body manages to naturally regulate its temperature, and the new CoreSport workout apparel uses that quality of sweat to keep wearers cool while also keeping them dry. The moisture-absorbing textile from which the shirt is composed simultaneously pulls sweat from...

Putting AI to work for the planet.The artificial intelligence (AI) opportunity for the Earth is significant. Today’s AI explosion will see us add this technology to more and more things every year. The AI itself will also become smarter with each passing year – not only more productive but developing intelligence that humans don’t yet have, accelerating human learning and innovation. As we t...