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How virtual assistants will build knowledge-based relationships based on trust

Trends in the Living Networks

However this also ties back to the themes of my first book on Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , which I applied to customer relationships in Chapter 4 of my book Living Networks , illustrated by this diagram taken from the book on the left. Image : Ramón Salinero.

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1&1 contracts Rakuten for German 5G Open RAN network

TM Forum

Germany’s 1&1 AG has given a fillip to Open RAN and the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) by contracting Rakuten Group to help build its new mobile network, which will be Germany’s fourth. Its choice of partner to build a virtualized Open RAN 5G network points to Rakuten’s potential to shake up the telecoms industry.

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Keynote at Cisco Insight 2010: Innovation beyond boundaries and the role of knowledge-based relationships

Trends in the Living Networks

I’ve always thought it anomalous that I had never done any work for Cisco, given its messages such as the Human Network are so aligned with mine, so I’m glad that connection has been made. Yes, it is absolutely an intensely networked economy. Yet the relationships that make up that network vary from tenuous to committed.

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Free chapters to four books on the future of relationships, networks, organizations and work

Trends in the Living Networks

The four books I have written so far – Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , Living Networks , Implementing Enterprise 2.0 , and Getting Results From Crowds – are linked by a number common themes. Living Networks. Please feel free to explore and download the resources. Getting Results From Crowds.

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Tractor Supply enlists AI to deliver ‘legendary’ customer service

CIO Business Intelligence

With information about products and availability constantly changing, Tractor Supply sees Hey GURA as a “knowledge base and a training platform,” says Rob Mills, chief technology, digital commerce, and strategy officer at Tractor Supply. It makes the team member much more efficient.”

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Will cognitive networks enable better conversations in the future?

Spearline Testing

The increasing complexity of networking environments. Network managers face the challenge of managing increasingly complex networking environments. In parallel, modern enterprise networks have evolved from being mainly hardware-driven to a software-driven fusion of virtual and physical networks.

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How to shift to intent-driven automation

TM Forum

The idea of intent-based networking has been kicking around the telecoms industry since at least 2017. our recent report on intent in autonomous networks. such as how to incorporate resources and interfaces that are outside the intent-based components of the system.

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