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Outperform Artificial Intelligence: Five ways to differentiate yourself from tech-focused retailers

2/28/2017

 
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Differentiation, in its most sincere form, calls for embracing Marty Neumeier's five areas of human talent ⎻ allowing us to stay ahead of artificial intelligence.

This week’s trend report, Outperform Artificial Intelligence: Five ways to differentiate yourself from tech-focused retailers, provides independent merchants with a framework for applying Marty Neumeier’s Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age.

Topics Discussed in this Trend Report:

  • Five metaskills that will help you stay ahead of the robot curve as described by Marty Neumeier
  • Feeling empathy and intuition from a customer’s point of view and from the perspective of a newer employee
  • Helping your team to see parts of a whole and to understand how those parts influence each other
  • Softball brainstorming in a dream state to challenge convention, think differently, and expand what you think you know
  • Adopting design thinking as you make and implement new ideas so that you can test and iterate more quickly
  • Understanding your learning style and learning how to learn in order to stay agile

Resourced Mentioned:

  • New York Times
  • ​Inc. Magazine

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