What do HR do When People Work from Home?
Everyone is talking of the “new-normal” in the post-pandemic era. A lot of discussion is going on around what exactly should be the approach for managers to take when their people – all of them – work remotely. Several conflicting opinions are emerging as the situation is novel indeed, and the corporate world already seems […]
The Tech Recruiter’s Dilemma – Technically Sound or Nerves of Steel?
Developer interviews are considered to be at the core of evaluating technical skills while recruiting software professionals. Traditionally, such interviews require the candidate to solve coding problems on a whiteboard in front of an interview panel. Although the intent is to understand the job-seekers’ skills of coding and problem-solving, a recent path-breaking study reveals that […]
Cyber Swadhinata Program
Praxis Business School has collaborated with the Cyber Security Center of Excellence, Dept. of Information Technology and Electronics, Govt. of West Bengal and Webel, to deliver the ‘Cyber Swadhinata Program’, an one of a kind industry-first professional training program aimed at imparting cybersecurity skills training to the technical resources of Govt. of West Bengal. With […]
The Name of the Game: Efficiency
Developing a more efficient AI crucial for long-term sustainability With artificial intelligence now taking centre stage in almost every facet of future development, an aspect that has especially been called into question is its ethics. For AI implementation to be truly sustainable over the long run, several issues pertaining to ethics – such as privacy […]
Bracing for the COVID-19 Technology Bump
Analytics and cybersecurity projects all set to drive enterprise IT spending A new study commissioned by Google on how the coronavirus pandemic will affect information technology budgets has found that 60% of enterprises surveyed expect either no change, or to increase their spending this year. The growth will be driven by investments in Artificial Intelligence […]
Coding for Dummies?
Programming is becoming more accessible than ever – but what does this mean for programmers? So far, the world of coding has somehow remained a niche, prevalent only amongst software programmers or computer science enthusiasts. However, given the digital transformation that has been forced upon the world by the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Automation Hits the Skill Shortage Hurdle
As the post-pandemic business world emerges with automation taking centre stage – AI skills will see unprecedented demands Automation of business processes is rapidly scaling up, with fallout from COVID-19 likely to accelerate adoption, according to a worldwide survey of business executives by Bain & Company. The survey finds that companies report cost savings from […]
The Artificial Artist
AI is learning to complete images from half a picture “Today, the United Nations has called for the immediate withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from the world.” This sentence wasn’t written by a human, but by an artificial intelligence algorithm code named GPT-2 (the fancy acronym stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer-2). Demonstrating this stunning development […]
India NeXT – Riding the New Global Supply Chain Opportunity
A recent business cartoon showed that it was not the CEO, the CTO or CIO who was responsible for large-scale digital transformation being initiated in every organization; but it was another ‘C’; theCOVID-19 virus. The pandemic forced the world into a remote-everything contactless world. From telemedicine, online-education, to work-from-home, everything was being carried on over […]
Bridging the Quantum Gap
With quantum computing promising mindboggling machine performance, can our encryption standards match up? Today, especially faced by the vagaries of a post-COVID world, almost all communication and data transmission has been pushed to the Cloud. The unwavering reliance of global network systems on standard encryption methods to protect its users’ sensitive information on the internet […]