Oh, the strategy pundits hate me! It’s not because I’m tall, good looking and from Iowa (well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad), it’s because I think Strategy as a “Discipline” is way overblown. I won’t go as far as the Harvard Business Review to state that “Strategy is Dead”, but the importance of carefully defining a strategy (typically done in the ivory towers of the puzzle palace) and then commanding all the little soldiers to follow the strategy script are over!
… The Internet and Globalization have mitigated the economic, operational and cultural impediments traditionally associated with time and distance. We are an intertwined global economy. … So, my next two blogs are going to discuss: How does one develop and adapt data and AI strategies in a world of continuous change and transformation? Read More
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Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence: Together Driving the Organization of Today
Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution is predicted to revolve around data. Organizations that will thrive this revolution will be the ones that will realize the value of data as their corporate asset and make smart technology choices to make data-driven decisions. For the organizations of today to get future-ready, having smart analytical applications to bring together data from multiple sources, form a meaningful dataset, and accelerate the delivery of business value.
Artificial Intelligence is the technology that can fuel such smart analytical applications for instantaneous data analytics. Integrating AI into business operations can help organizations in ways that one cannot fathom. Read More
Do You Need an AI Product Manager
The role of Product Manager (PM) can mean many things dependent on the specifics of the company, its markets, its channels, and the variety of its products. It’s almost impossible to put a single label on the responsibilities of a PM except that he or she is responsible for all the features and capabilities of the products in their care. Read More
AI-First: Transforming Yours into an AI-First Organization
AI is transforming every industry. Built on the tidal wave created by the Internet, Cloud Computing, and Big Data, AI promises to revolutionize the way we work at every level. Some fear that AI will replace jobs, but the truth is it will build better ways of doing things, leveraging the best both of humans and machines.
AI-First is a mindset, one which will enable you and your organization to tap into this revolution. While AI is being dominated by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon, every organization needs to decide how best to leverage the revolution.
This book shows leaders how to Launch the transformation — aiding them in identifying the right problems to solve, in developing successful data acquisition strategies, and in bringing together the tools and the talent to succeed. Read More
How COVID-19 is Likely to Change Your AI Strategy
COVID-19 and the changes it creates in the business environment for the next 12 to 24 months means our current AI strategies need to thoroughly reviewed and probably retargeted. Read More
Six AI Strategies – But Only One Winner
For the last three years we’ve been close observers of exactly what makes a successful AI/ML strategy. In addition to our own observations we’ve been listening closely to VCs and how they describe their internal process for deciding who to fund. It’s remarkable how rapidly and fundamentally this conversation has changed.
The results are in. There is only one demonstrably successful strategy for creating big wins for AI-first companies: platforms. Read More
The Next Big Thing in AI/ML is…
“The Next Big Thing in AI/ML is…” as the lead to an article is probably the most overused trope since “once upon a time”. Seriously, just how many ‘next big things’ can there be? Is your incredulity not stretched every time you read that?
It’s tempting to say that writers starting an article in this way should be flogged …except that yours truly did recently start one with “the next most IMPORTANT thing in AI/ML…” Well that’s clearly different isn’t it – almost. Read More
Job Role: AI Strategist
Takeaway: AI strategists have important roles not just in shepherding projects through to completion, but in making them make sense in a corporate context.
What is an AI strategist? It’s an interesting question, particularly in the context of how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the business world and revolutionizing how companies sell products and services. (Watch: 3 Key Breakthroughs That Paved the Way for Artificial Intelligence.) Read More
Life after artificial intelligence
AI stands to be the most radically transformative technology ever developed by humankind. What hypothetical situations are looming right around the corner as AI technology rises?
What will we invent after we invent everything that can be invented?
Artificial intelligence stands to be the most radically transformative technology ever developed by the human race. As a former artificial intelligence entrepreneur turned investor, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of this technology: where it’s taking us and how our lives are going to reform around it. We humans tend to develop emergent technologies to the nth degree, so I think there is a certain inevitability to the far-out techno-utopian visions from certain branches of science fiction — it just makes common sense to me and many others. Why shouldn’t AI change everything? Read More
Why some platforms succeed … while most fail
One of the most important business models of the 21st century is, without question, the platform model, which powers many of today’s biggest and most disruptive companies. Innovation platform, such as Google Android, Apple iPhone operating systems, and Amazon Web Services enable third-party firms to add complementary products and services to a core product or technology. Transaction platforms, which include the likes of Amazon Marketplace, Airbnb, and Uber, bring together producers and users in efficient exchanges of value, and they leverage network effects—the more participants, the greater the value produced. Read More
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