Success
85% Of Small Business Owners Report That Use Of Technology Aids Success
According to a recent study, a vast majority of SMBs that use digital tools say these tools help them improve business performance and remain competitive. The research, carried out by Deloitte, confirmes that digitally empowered SMBs achieve better financial results and higher employment growth. Out of a thousand SMBs surveyed, 99% say they use at …
Collaboration, technology, aid success of specialized academic instruction | Needles Desert Star
NEEDLES — Technology-aided collaboration is bringing some measure of erudition to seventh and eighth grade students of Katie Keller’s specialized academic instruction at Needles Middle School. The courses are for special needs students, Keller explained. “Trying to help the students discover how they learn and providing alternative methods of learning for them. Some of them …
Bringing a ‘community feel’ to health care | Local
KEARNEY — Ask Bev Muller about her recent hip replacement surgery at Kearney Regional Medical Center, and she brightens like the sun. “I can’t say enough,” she said. “I know I’m not a number to them. I’m a person. They trust me and treated me with quality. They go the second or third mile in …
Success of Red Flag Laws Might Depend on Mental Health Teams
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — When a local student posted a photo of himself online holding a gun with a message about going to his school and killing some people he didn’t like, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office responded. A deputy and a licensed mental health professional went to the student’s home and talked …
Five Essential Strategies for Success
At a recent conference I attended, a moderator asked a panel of business executives how technology vendors could better support their initiatives. It was a fair question, but it only addressed one side of the equation. The other, equally important question, comes from the vendor’s perspective: “What can customers do to help their technology suppliers …
Belichick hopes joint practices with Lions will lay foundation for success away from home in 2019 – ProFootballTalk
Getty Images The Patriots rarely lose more games than they win, under any analysis of their performance. In 2018, they lost more regular-season games away from home than they won there, compiling a very non-Patriotic 3-5 record on the road. This year, they’re practicing with the Lions in Detroit, the site of their first regular-season …
Technological Innovation and Content Resources Drive Success of iQIYI’s First Chinese Virtual Idol Band “RiCH BOOM”
Prior to this holographic performance, only pre-recorded interactions between virtual characters and human beings were available as real-time response from the virtual character is considered too technically challenging to achieve. For this Event, iQIYI applied real-time interactive technologies, such as the game engine UE4, to reduce the time consumption of production. This allows RiCH BOOM …
Nick Jordan: 7 obstacles to overcome for success in healthcare IoT
Editor’s Note: Nick Jordan is the CEO and founder of Smashing Boxes, a custom software development and design firm for web, mobile, and connected devices and one of the fastest-growing private firms in the Triangle. This article is part a series exploring entrepreneurship and the meaning of life, including profiles of local entrepreneurs, change-makers and technology trends. DURHAM — …
Tarantino Movie Aims to Tap a Bygone Era—and Formula for Success
LOS ANGELES—Quentin Tarantino’s new movie “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” will have to do a lot more than summon the sizzle of 1960s Los Angeles if it is going to buck recent moviegoing trends. It will have to defy a harsh box-office reality. With the summer movie season once again dominated by comic-book franchises, …
Maximizing Drug Discovery Success With Machine Learning
The pipeline to new drugs isn’t straightforward. Whilst some estimates of only 5-10% of drug programs making it to approval may be lowballing the true rate, success is still far from guaranteed. What is guaranteed is the gargantuan time and cost of taking a compound from discovery to therapy. In response, pharmas are wising up …
