Business and Emerging Technologies
- 2h 47m
- George Baffour
- Business Expert Press
- 2021
If business professionals do not actively stay up to date with new developments, they can quickly become outmoded in the workplace or unattractive in the job market.
Business and Emerging Technologies is an extensive but straight-to-the-point guide designed to get business students and professionals up to speed with an electrifying range of emergent technologies and concepts in the shortest possible time. Readers will benefit from fluid, well-researched reviews of technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, quantum computing, augmented reality, 3D printing, and nanotechnology, and will acquire the factual contexts needed to make insightful decisions as these technologies slowly, but surely, pop up in their occupational nexuses.
About the Author
George Baffour is a mixed-race German Ghanaian and a grandson of the late Dr. Robert Patrick Baffour, OBE, OV, a celebrated Ghanaian engineer and inventor. He holds an MBA With Distinction from Hult International Business School and preceding BSc and MPhil degrees in oceanography and fisheries science, respectively, from the University of Ghana.
George is deeply passionate about science, technology, and innovation. He began his career as an assistant research scientist at Water Research Institute—one of 13 institutes under the Republic of Ghana’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)—before taking on engagements in business and media. During his MBA, he was a winner (Team DUBAInnovators) of the 2015 Emirates NBD Future Intelligence Challenge in Dubai and a global winner (Team 7Sigma) of 3M Invent a New Future Challenge 2016 at 3M Headquarters in Minnesota.
He is the author of the 2018 science-fiction/romance novelette, From Japan With Love Beyond Time. George is also known as an actor, songwriter, and producer—under the stage name, SoulKnight-Jazz—with credits in several Ghanaian and Nigerian film/TV productions.
In this Book
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Description
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Foreword
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: Four Industrial Revolutions
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Chapter 2: Blockchain
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Chapter 3: Cryptocurrency
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Chapter 4: Computing, Data, and Intelligence
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Chapter 5: Connectivity, IoT, and a Smarter World
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Chapter 6: Virtual Worlds
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Chapter 7: Materials and Production Technologies
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Chapter 8: Energy
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Chapter 9: Mobility
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Chapter 10: The Flexible Workplace
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Chapter 11: Managing Innovation and Technology Development
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Chapter 12: What Now? Thriving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
