Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies in the Era of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies in the Era of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Roman Batko, Anna Szopa

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 302

ISBN13: 9781522516569|ISBN10: 1522516565|EISBN13: 9781522516576

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1656-9

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Batko, Roman, and Anna Szopa, eds. Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies in the Era of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1656-9

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The use of machines has changed the workplaces of today. While machinery is still not able to perform certain jobs that require creative or non-routine functions, their continuous advancements have shifted the dynamic between organizations and manual laborers.

Strategic Imperatives and Core Competencies in the Era of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence focuses on contemporary organizations and their use of new competencies. Featuring coverage on new skill identification and best practices for management, this book is essential for professionals, administrators, researchers, and students seeking current research on the latest developments in technological applications in the workplace.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics (ACIR) Book Series

Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Panopticon – Cybercontrol in Liquid Modernity: What Does Control Really Mean in Contemporary Management? (pages 1-14)

Roman Batko

The chapter proposes a critical analysis of the panopticon, the model of an ideal prison devised in the 18th century by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, and its function in modern management. The original prison was designed...

Chapter 2

The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model into Artificial Intelligence (pages 15-28)

Anna Szopa

We observe situation in which human computation processes leverage the abilities of people via the Web to perform complex computation. In this context human intelligence is harnessed to solve computational problems that are beyond...

Chapter 3

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Labor Market and Beyond (pages 29-49)

Robert Niewiadomski, Dennis Anderson

Our inventions defined the work we engaged in for centuries; created new industries and employment opportunities around them. They, however, had often unforeseen consequences that affected the way we lived, interacted with each...

Chapter 4

Promoting Critical Thinking in the Modern Learning Environments (pages 50-80)

Kijpokin Kasemsap

This chapter explains the overview of critical thinking (CT); the emerging trends of CT in the modern learning environments; CT in nursing education and health care; reflective judgment and CT; constructivist learning and CT;...

Chapter 5

The Role of Living Labs in the Process of Creating Innovation (pages 81-100)

Anna Maria Sabat, Anna Katarzyna Florek-Paszkowska

The paper is based on the research carried out into Living Labs in Canada. The aim of the paper is presenting the essence of Living Labs as a concept facilitating innovation generation in businesses thanks to the cooperation of...

Chapter 6

An Imagination of Organizations in the Future: Rethinking McKinsey's 7S Model (pages 101-125)

Oya Zincir, Ayşegül Özbebek Tunç

Organizations try to survive in a hypercompetitive, changing, and unpredictable environment. The form of this survival continuously changes and requires different tools, solutions, dynamics and drivers according to the actual time....

Chapter 7

The Organization of the Future and the Marketing Function: Marketers' Competencies in the Era of Information Technology (pages 126-145)

Mario Gonzalez-Fuentes

The past two decades—and the technology advancements experienced throughout them—have left marketers with a new context that has provided new business opportunities. This new context has prompted a change in the focus of the...

Chapter 8

Algorithm as Demiurge: A Complex Myth of New Media (pages 146-166)

Jan Kreft

Plato's Demiurge is the quintessence of perfection and power. “Whatever comes from me is indestructible unless I, myself, wish it to be destroyed” - says the creator of the gods, speaking to them in Timaeus. The gods and Demiurge...

Chapter 9

Decision-Making Models of the Human-Operator as an Element of the Socio-Technical Systems (pages 167-204)

Nina Rizun, Tetiana Shmelova

The authors of the chapter proved that the fundamental intellectual processes, which lie on the basis of decision-making behavior of the human-operator, could be identified on the bases on the analogies with the devices (elements)....

Chapter 10

Aggregators News Sources of Main Portals in Poland (pages 205-222)

Jan Kreft, Mariana Petrova

Aggregation of media content comes as a popular form of media market activity which is supposed to facilitate access to information in the conditions of its excessive amount. It can be defined as selection and hierarchization of...

Chapter 11

Competences as a Core Factor Impacting Market Research Usage in Poland: Luxury of Thriving Business or Necessity of Struggling One – State of Market Research Industry in Poland (pages 223-247)

Zofia Bednarowska, Michał Andrzej Chrzanowski

Almost two-thirds of Polish companies declare that the most important source of information are their own observations and personal experience (Kaper & Kuziak, 2006, p. 6). Only 32% of companies use benchmarking as an external source...

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