Employers take out Life Insurance Policies on their Employees
Is it right that employers take out life insurance policies on their employees? Most employees do not even know if their employers have taken out life insurance policies against them, and undertandably so: how could it feel to work for a company, knowing the company would profit [...]
Oct
6
2009
6
2009
Back to your Desks, Peasants!
Oct
4
2009
4
2009
Google AdSense: What Artificial Intelligence does in the Real World?
When I went to college, I studied Artificial Intelligence before there was any such thing as Google AdSense (or, in fact, Google). I know, it’s hard to believe.
So I spent a couple of years learning about robots, intelligent systems, evolution and natural language processing. Little robots will go to Mars, they told us. [...]
Sep
23
2009
23
2009
Ebusiness Case Study: Last FM and Web 2.0 innovation
How Last.fm Responded to the Opportunities and Challenges of E-Business Technologies
As an e-business from the start, an online presence was essential to Last.fm’s business model. There was no risk of channel conflict or cannibalisation of pre-existing sales channels.
Last.fm’s Relationship with Technology
Using Rogers’ (1962) technology adoption lifecycle model, organisations can be innovators, early adopters, early or [...]