SourceCast: Episode 110: Youtube Edition
SourceCast: Episode 110: Notes From Ariba Live 2018
News You Can Use: 6/7/2017
- How Amazon hopes to win the cloud by hiring older engineers
In my own experience, AWS teams have a healthy mix of older and younger employees. Still, AWS leadership isn’t driven by millennials, but rather by graybeards (James Gosling, Adrian Cockcroft, Tim Bray, and Andi Gutmans are just a few people called out by Governor). Management at most companies will tend to skew a bit older, but AWS is notable for how those people are discovered. As Governor noted: “Some other older companies have older distinguished engineers because they grew up with the company. AWS is explicitly bringing that experience in.”
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-amazon-hopes-to-win-the-cloud-by-hiring-older-engineers/
- Will basic income mean the end of work? Nope.
In fact, some of this rhetoric could be missing the mark. The evidence from many trials of unconditional cash transfers, including basic income plans, finds little evidence that work (or the desire to work) disappears in conditions of free money. In almost all cases, giving people regular payments hasn’t dampened their thirst for employment. In fact, UBI is a bit like the lottery, says Ioana Marinescu, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, author of a recent paper looking at the relationship between cash transfers and behavior. We may imagine that lottery winners all decamp to Florida (or similar) and sit by the pool all day. Actually, most lottery winners keep clocking in (though presumably less despairingly than before).
https://www.fastcompany.com/40423154/will-a-basic-income-mean-the-end-of-work-dont-get-too-excited
- AI Can Now Self-Reproduce—Should Humans Be Worried?
- Aecom and IBM create “scorecard” to help cities prepare for disasters
The scorecard is structured around the UN’s 10 Essentials of Disaster Resilience, a list that enables city administrations to identify priorities for investment and to track progress over time. The goal is to guide cities towards optimal resilience by providing a set of assessments that cover the policy and planning, engineering, organisational, financial, social and environmental aspects of disaster resilience.
http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/aecom-and-ibm-create-scorec7ard-he7lp-ci7es/
- I just want to say one word to you: Data
You need a strategy: Tom Choi, executive director of CAPS Research, said that as procurement managers are tasked with looking downstream for ways to add value to their customers, a digitized ecosystem is crucial for business success. At the same time, the upsurge of Big Data and analytics technology (there are something like 163 platforms that an organization could subscribe to for data) has been rapid and radical, especially the increase in unstructured data from social and media outlets that does not easily fit in a box. Choi’s advice: Create an analytics team; convert your data into a form you can use; and then launch small projects that work or fail quickly. Use those learnings to start again.
http://www.scmr.com/article/i_just_want_to_say_one_word_to_you_data#When:14:30:00Z
Photo: Tony Lam Hoang
News You Can Use: 3/22/2017
- How to Keep Kids, Pets, and Other Interruptions From Derailing Your Skype Meetings
1. Take responsibility for what happened. Don’t pawn it off on other people.
2. Explain why it happened as gracefully as you can. People find comfort in the “why” of things.
3. Don’t make it a bigger deal than it is. Your reaction can make it more embarrassing than it already is.http://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-kids-pets-and-other-interruptions-from-de-1793177092
- How to Use Pocket Casts To Wrangle Your Horrible Podcast Addiction
I know many visitors on the site listen to the podcast right in the browser, but if you want to take SourceCast with you on the go, and listen to other, much better content, use Pocket Casts – this is the Podcast app I personally use to keep up with the multitude of podcasts I follow.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-pocket-casts-to-wrangle-your-horrible-podcas-1793102283
- Report: Why Merck turned to supply chain integration to save costs
Many companies operate, for example, on an established safety stock or production level because that’s the way it has always been done. When it comes to contracting with suppliers and external manufacturers, changes in scale must be justified… a lack of data makes that process difficult.
The case study suggests Merck & Co. realized this was a problem, and sought to integrate its systems into a single platform capable of both supply and demand planning. The change allowed the company global visibility for all of its finished goods, and segmentation of goods to better determine when exceptions are necessary, for example.
- The Science of Style and Fashion for Entrepreneurs with Antonio Centeno
Antonio Centeno of Real Men Real Style grew up in a trailer park, and that experience made him realize just how a person’s clothes can determine your expectations for them. You’d be more wary of trusting a doctor wearing a tye-dye shirt than one wearing a lab coat, and you’d be less likely to answer the door for a cable repair man who didn’t wear a uniform.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/video/290171
The host is somewhat annoying, but interesting information… - Maturity is the key to effective analytics
Many supply chain professionals report that their organizations have increased their investment in analytics over the last three years, according to a recent APQC survey. This survey looked at the analytics practices of organizations, as well as the structure of these efforts. APQC surveyed supply chain professionals from a variety of organization sizes and regions and from 36 industries. APQC’s analysis found that organizations have several areas of focus for their supply chain analytics efforts, and that most organizations have a formal analytics structure. However, the payoff of these efforts may not be at the level organizations would expect.
http://www.scmr.com/article/maturity_is_the_key_to_effective_analytics#When:15:16:00Z
Photo: Caroline Hernandez