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Continuing our year-end countdown, Madeline Bennett picks out ten of her personal highlights from the year at diginomica.

Continuing our year-end countdown, Madeline Bennett picks out ten of her personal highlights from the year at diginomica.
Europe's highest court just unwrapped an unwanted present for Uber, ruling that it really is a taxi firm after all.
2017 is almost at an end; 2018 is around the corner. In the second of our annual reviews of the highlights of the year, Dennis Howlett offers his personal picks of the best of diginomica 2017. Customer stories feature heavily.
Sue Henley, CA Technologies Head of Talent Development, Education & Diversity for EMEA, discusses the secrets to success in diversity and inclusion.
Infor President Stephan Scholl explains how the company will take advantage of its investment from Koch Industries - and is thinking about future $Billions.
Hug a robot - they're not coming for your jobs after all, despite the armageddon peddlers dire predictions. A wide-ranging report on the Future of Work that deserves a lot of attention.
Workplace diversity is an important topic, but one that can be tuned out. At Xerocon 2017, a panel brought new data from Xero to light. Some of the data was troubling - but I also heard fresh ideas on going forward.
A UK cross-political party group has produced some interesting and compelling recommendations around AI policy that could be usefully adapted at home and internationally.
This week: what is the role for AI in workplace diversity? And why were analysts frustrated at AWS re:Invent? Plus: retail carnage with Amazon versus everybody else. Loads of whiffs this week as the social media spank tunnel ramps up.
Workday Financials progenitor Mark Nittler has long worried that the finance profession isn't ready with the skills or mindset to embrace its digital future
What can the technology industry and its buyers learn from a craft maker? Quite a lot. The parallels are uncanny but then I wonder if we're on the cusp of finally understanding some universal truths.
If the introduction of AI in the workplace means that demand for soft skills will rise, and soft skills have traditionally been associated with women, just where does that leave men?
A generation of 'Data Whisperers' is needed to exploit the full potential of the AI revolution, argues Ocado's CTO.