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"Going green" has become a topic of increased attention lately, but it's nothing new to knowledge management. By its nature, knowledge management promotes efficiency and optimal use of resources, which often reduces the amount of energy required to achieve a given goal. What has changed is the heightened awareness of those benefits. That awareness is creating new interest in KM solutions that can improve business performance while reducing environmental effects. Knowledge management also plays a role in the software tools that help companies improve their energy management, embedding expertise in algorithms to optimize use of office equipment and energy in buildings.

Syngenta is a global agriculture business that helps farmers make better use of their available resources, primarily through agrochemical and seed production. In order to continue to advance crop productivity, it invested more than $1.4bn in research and development (R&D) across 150 international sites in 2014.

We can stay in command of AI for as long as we control resources and value exchange in the future. However there is probably some minor chance that a self-improving AI will figure out how to wrest that control from us ... at some time in the future.

Join the CGIAR, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the KM4Dev Community , the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations Development Programme in creating and growing this resource of knowledge sharing tools and methods. While these are applicable in a wide range of contexts, we hope that together we can help frame them in the context of international development with a focus on agriculture, fisheries, food and nutrition, forestry and sustainable development.

"Failure happens. This is a community and a resource to encourage new levels of transparency, collaboration and innovation across the for-purpose sector."

Many companies are seeing that the future of deep learning is here, and that it doesn't require a lot of money or resources to take advantage of this new industrial science. IBM's Watson Analytics offers a freemium service that allows you to upload up to 500MB, and enables you to explore your own real-life applications for deep learning. Inputting Google Adwords or other sales metrics into this tool can help even startup companies find relational and predictive information in their data.

"This website provides a host of resources relating to SNA, many of which available to non members. The Network Roundtable is run by Rob Cross at the University of Virginia."

"New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap."

"New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap."

"'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article from Business Week Magazine. The Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. The importance of particular kinds of diversity are also explored. If you want to know more about Prediction Markets, we are building a considerable KIN resource on this here and the KIN Quarterly Workshop on 2nd December will cover this topic. Thanks go to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing out this fascinating article. "

New product innovation is a strategic business activity that involves significant financial resources and managerial attention. Most new product launches fail because existing methods are unable to forecast their commercial successes accurately. In this article, we describe a market-based method to address this gap.

Collaboration is an essential element of doing business. and most companies spend their working day communicating with customers, suppliers, partners and colleagues. For many businesses this is still an efficient process. Stats show that each business loses an estimated £10k per year sitting in traffic en route to meetings. This doesn't take into account the time and cost of communicating across their companies or distributed workforces. In other words the things businesses are doing to ensure they run smoothly are actually costing them money. Internet based collaboration tools can replace face-to-face meetings, allowing you to work with a team in another office, another company, or even another time zone. And they are just as useful to help you stay on top of projects that involve people in the same office, because they bring together the information and resources you need to run your business on a daily basis.

Recommened by Jenny Ambrozek

The focus is technology developments but a good resource if you are interested in industry trends and what's new from leading enterprise software providers

Senior executives searching for growth face a stark new reality: roughly 400 midsize cities in emerging markets-cities they mostly will have never heard of-are posed to generate nearly 40 percent of global growth over the next 15 years. That's more growth than the combined total of all developed economies plus the emerging markets' megacities (those with populations of more than ten million, such as Mumbai, São Paulo, and Shanghai), which together have been the historic focus of most multinationals. Learning about consumer attitudes in the emerging markets' "middleweight" cities (three-quarters of which have less than two million people), figuring out market entry strategies for them, and deciding how to allocate resources within and across them will all be crucial priorities in the years ahead.

The Center for Evidence-Based Management (CEBMa) is a non-profit member organization dedicated to promoting evidence-based practice in the field of management. We provide support and resources to managers, consultants, organizations, teachers, academics and others interested in learning more about evidence-based management.

"Whether you're just learning to code or you're a seasoned machine learning practitioner, you'll find information and exercises in this resource center to help you develop your skills and advance your projects."

Fake news meets linked data. A useful resource.