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Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. Today’s flash briefing is about how organizations can promote a diverse and inclusive culture and why it matters. The issue of diversity and inclusion in the workplace goes beyond gender. It’s about harmonizing the strengths and thinking from a diverse set of employees comprising different cultures, age groups, socio-economic, professional, and educational backgrounds.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. Today we are focusing on how digital tools are helping reinvent the future of humanitarian aid delivery. In every major disaster, getting aid to those affected in a timely matter is extremely urgent. However, an array of complications have historically impeded timely and accurate aid delivery – frequently resulting in food and other aid arriving too late, or never even reaching victims in need.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. To build on yesterday’s briefing about how AI can change the structure of organizations, today we discuss how enterprises can determine the best way to integrate AI technology into their business. Let’s begin by addressing the big elephant in the room: Employees may feel threatened by, or uncomfortable collaborating with a robot or other AI interface.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. To build on yesterday’s briefing about AI collaboration, today we will discuss how AI might change the structure of organizations. First, let’s compare traditional technology with AI. Traditional technology is focused on precision and efficiency whereas AI is predictive.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. Today we’re taking a look at AI-human collaboration in the workplace. Many organizations have already begun the process. Ad agency McCann Erikson added the first AI-based creative director to a team in Japan, and companies like Hong Kong VC Deep Knowledge Ventures and Finnish tech company Tieto have welcomed AI board members to assess information and vote based on data.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. Today we’re talking about the benefits of applying artificial intelligence —or AI— to complex decisions, and the human responsibility to keep AI implementation on the ethical straight and narrow. This is especially imperative given that, Gartner predicts that by 2018, smart machines will supervise over 3 million workers worldwide.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. To build on yesterday’s briefing about the potential benefits of VR and AR to the enterprise, today we’ll cover the employee and technical challenges that companies need to overcome in order to realize the full business value of VR and AR. Let’s begin with employee observation.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. To build on yesterday’s briefing about the flashy consumer experience with alternate digital realities, today we’ll explore the promising potential benefits of VR and AR to the enterprise. They can be used to boost efficiency and productivity, eliminate previously unavoidable risks, and literally give employers and managers new ways to look at information and operations.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. To build on yesterday’s briefing about virtual and augmented reality, today we’ll delve into the specifics of the consumer reality experience and what some companies are already enacting. Consumers are increasingly interested and comfortable with VR and AR.

Hello. This is your daily Digitalist insight, brought to you by SAP. Today we’re taking a look at VR and AR—that’s virtual reality and augmented reality—the growth and hype around them, and the business opportunities they bring to the table. Let’s begin with the differences between these two digital worlds, starting with VR. Virtual reality is a digital experience that seems convincingly real.