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Posh Pools and Easy A’s: Students as Customers in Higher Education

Beyond Philosophy

In a recent New York Times article , writer Frank Bruni laments the erosion of higher education as a result of the growing adoption of a consumer model positioning students as customers and colleges as mere providers of goods and services. To be fair, higher education is only following the herd.

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Set a customer service culture with three steps to welcome

Vonage

A British gentleman working in global logistics, his American entertainer wife who recently became a mother, an Australian event coordinator and me. The entertainer wants time to browse before she is approached, and feels “hurried” if someone comes too close, too soon. What a conversation! The Australian feels just the opposite.

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Instead of a MoodPad interface, the tablets now have Facetime, games and educational apps to keep their users entertained. To prevent further spread of the coronavirus, governments encourage citizens to wear mouth masks.

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How Customer Centricity Is Changing Pharmaceutical Customer Experience

PeopleMetrics

This market shift, combined with increasing government regulation, decreasing amounts of face-time with physicians, and a barrage of multi-million dollar lawsuits, has led forward-looking healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to begin shifting their focus away from products and more towards their ultimate customer – the patient.

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Brand Move Roundup – April 9, 2020

C Space

More business chiefs and entertainment industry figures have stepped up to offer sizable sums in donations to various charities and aid organizations. A host of entertainers have donated to the MGM Resorts International Employee Emergency Grant Fund in order to counteract the economic impact of the pandemic on the company’s workforce.

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Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning

Information that identifies you may be shared with doctors responsible for your care or for audits and evaluations by government agencies, but talks and papers about the study will not identify you. Mark’s work covers a wide range of ML use cases, with a primary interest in computer vision, deep learning, and scaling ML across the enterprise.

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Brand Move Roundup – April 17, 2020

C Space

Basically, unique experiences you can share with others online, from virtual cocktail sessions to meditation, entertainment and education. In India, the ibis New Delhi Aerocity is providing support and assistance to the Government with medical care and observation for Indian guests returning from abroad.