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      <title>Conversational Commerce: An Introduction</title>
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      <description>In April 2020 I have started working on a new project to revolutionize how customers shop. For that purpose, we have written a blog post introducing Farfetch Chat (previously known as iFETCH), a conversational AI technology with multimodal capabilities developed by FARFETCH in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA).
Farfetch Chat aimed to revolutionize the online high-fashion sector by providing a &amp;ldquo;physical store&amp;rdquo;-like experience through natural interaction using both textual and visual data.</description>
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      <title>Core Competencies: An Introduction</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:00:23 +0600</pubDate>
      
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      <description>What core competencies are? How do they enable businesses? Core competencies are a collection of skill sets that help to differentiate a professional and their competitive worth to the business and thus the market. Despite much research, it is still unknown what constitutes a winning formula.
What should be highlighted is that a company that does not have collaborators who grow around their &amp;ldquo;core competencies&amp;rdquo; is unable to compete and create.</description>
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      <title>Meetings: An Introduction</title>
      <link>https://rjgsousa.github.io/posts/ways-of-working/meetings/introduction/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:00:23 +0600</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Before Scheduling a Meeting There are certain preconditions for being successful in what meetings are related. First, remote working guidelines and no meeting day are sufficient but not necessary for a good practice of meetings coordination. Yet, the two patterns mentioned above include rituals that are key to a solid foundation.
Follows essential principles that you need to have in mind before scheduling a meeting:
Own your calendar - keep your calendar accurate (even, for the non-meeting event), be conscious of the different timezones;</description>
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      <title>Remote Work: An Introduction</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 06:00:23 +0600</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Some of us have been forced by the pandemic to work in a new reality. Even though forced work from home != remote work, I would like to reinforce some practices that are in place in workplaces with distributed teams.
Acknowledgments: This page would not be possible without the collaboration and discussions with Nuno Santos, Silvia Bessa and Ana Rebelo
Setup Chat Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord
Slack/Microsoft Teams are currently the go-to apps for teams communications.</description>
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