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Leading High Performing Remote Teams
How can leaders ensure that performance remains high in remote or hybrid-work environments?
Content Marketing
In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
Want to expand overseas? The CAGE distance framework can help ensure you're constructing a solid global strategy in four areas: cultural, administrative, economic, and geographic. Learn how to leverage useful differences between countries, identify potential obstacles, and achieve global business success.
Servant Leadership
There's more to leadership than driving a team to profit. In fact, there's a word for looking beyond self-interest to prioritize individual growth: servant leadership. Try this course for a quick breakdown of what that is, how it works, and how it can lead to organizational success.
Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
Japanese companies have unique cultural, communication, and operational challenges. But they also have values that have led to remarkable longevity. Check out this seminar to hear how these values help earn trust from overseas head offices and develop employees.
Marketing: Reaching Your Target
Every company works hard to get its products into the hands of customers. Are you doing everything you can to compete? In this course, you’ll find a winning formula to turn a product idea into real sales. Follow along through the fundamentals of the marketing mix and see how companies successfully bring products to market.
Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
Want to compare your performance vs. a competitor? Or evaluate a potential vendor? Then you'll need to conduct a financial analysis. This course will teach you how to use three financial statements and evaluate financial performance in terms of profitability, efficiency, soundness, growth, and overall strength.
Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
Career anchors are based on your values, desires, motivations, and abilities. They are the immovable parts of your professional self-image that guide you throughout your career journey.
Try this short GLOBIS Unlimited course to identify which of the eight career anchors is yours!
Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
TL;DR: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a simulation of human intelligence. The rise of Agentive AI now allows AI to act decisively and independently, adapt to changes and learn from its own experiences just like people do. AI Agents are automating and optimizing business processes and operations with minimal to no human supervision–disrupting industries while unlocking game-changing opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Agentive AI–an evolution of AI that proactively makes decisions, takes action based on predefined goals and improves its own performance over time–is well-positioned to take over the world. At least, in business.
A recent survey of 1,100 executives found that 82% of companies plan to adopt AI agents over the next 3 years, while AI investments are driving the combined capital expenditures of the big four tech firms (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook) to reach a record high of US$280 billion this year.
The era of Agentive AI has just begun–and future business owners have the advantage of vastly benefiting from its emerging potential.
What are AI Agents?
From email assistants and scheduling tools to complex home automation systems and self-driving vehicles, AI agents are software programs designed to interact with their environments, collect data and autonomously perform tasks. They are the building blocks of a broader Agentive AI system bringing these components together to meet certain goals.
AI Agents can be classified into several types:
Simple Reflex Agents are programmed to act when specific conditions are met but cannot respond to unexpected situations. Examples: Automatic doors, smoke detectors and heating systems that activate within certain temperature parameters.
Modern-based Reflex Agents maintain an internal model of the world by storing information that adjusts as it receives new information. Example: A robot vacuum cleaner that senses obstacles and avoids previously vacuumed areas.
Goal-based Agents perform sequences of actions to meet certain goals. Example: A navigation system that recommends the fastest route to a destination.
Utility-based Agents follow metrics that measure the usefulness of goal-based actions based on fixed criteria. Examples: Financial trading systems that evaluate market data to maximize returns while managing risks and smart grids that balance energy supply and demand.
Learning Agents have the unique ability to learn from past experiences, improve their actions and operate within unfamiliar environments. Examples: Personalized Netflix recommendations, spam filters, customer service chatbots and self-driving vehicles.
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How Agentive AI and AI Agents can be used to empower businesses
From customer engagement to financial management, Agentive AI tools are being deployed in ways that replace the nuts and bolts of running a business.
AI agents can act as digital employees helping entrepreneurs make data-driven decisions via analytics that assess market trends, competitor strategies and customer behavior. As virtual assistants, they can automate routine administrative tasks such as replying to emails, managing invoices, scheduling meetings and tracking expenses–saving startup founders and business owners valuable time and effort.
AI chatbots act as effective customer service representatives–responding in real-time to customer inquiries, recommending products, sending targeted promotions, increasing sales conversions and enhancing customer satisfaction. AI agents can also act as financial advisors–intelligently forecasting sales revenues, monitoring budgets and helping business owners make insightful and strategic investment decisions.
By automating most business functions such as customer support, marketing and HR, Agentive AI allows businesses scale up without hiring additional personnel.
Tips for effective Agentive AI deployment
- Define clear goals for Agentive AI and identify use cases where AI agents have high impact. Consider the complexity of tasks, the availability of relevant data, and whether the AI agent requires human oversight and validation.
- Ensure high-quality data and establish a robust data pipeline. Data is the cornerstone of Agentive AI’s technical foundations. Training AI with diverse and regularly updated data sets to avoid bias is therefore crucial. Utilizing synthetic data and deploying AI on the edge also helps anticipate unexpected future scenarios.
- Design Agentive AI systems with human collaboration in mind. AI agents should enhance and not replace human decisions while being explainable to users.
- Monitor AI performance and behavior. Tracking AI errors and unintended results is important to establish necessary mechanisms to address faulty AI behavior.
- Build a strong governance and ethical framework. Using AI fairness tools to detect biases, involving human oversight in high-risk decisions, protecting AI workflows from security breaches and setting up auto-shutdowns when AI exhibits dangerous actions are some ways to mitigate risks by ensuring that AI-led decisions are made ethically and fairly.
Wrapping Up
With the competitive edge it offers in automation, efficiency and scalability, Agentive AI is greatly revolutionizing businesses and industries in previously unimaginable ways. Entrepreneurs and startup founders can now easily enhance customer engagement, optimize productivity by automating operations and make smarter business decisions by integrating AI agents into their business models–a strategic move for long-term success in an increasingly AI-driven world.