Businesses Are Creating Data But They Must Craft Better Systems And Approaches To Work With It

If you look under the hood of most company’s data strategy – if they have one, that is – you’ll find that most data is woefully unmanaged. It’s unclear how data is meant to be used and who is responsible for it. Businesses must craft better systems and approaches to

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The Art Of Building Second Cores: Creating Businesses With Much Greater Potential Than Original Cores

Traditionally, the most reliable way for a firm to find its next wave of growth was to apply the capabilities of its core business in an adjacent market. But recently a new pattern has begun to emerge. More firms are learning the art of building large second cores – what

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Strengthening Your Customer Service With AI: Creating And Delivering A Dynamic Experience That Provides Right Information And Incentives To Customers

Reimagining AI strategies to unlock a true end-to-end customer experience. Artificial intelligence can integrate two marketing tactics – getting the right offers to customers at the right time and delivering great post-sales service – to make the customer experience even better. For every brand, helping customers make purchase decisions by

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Automation: Not Only Creating Or Destroying Jobs, It Is Also Transforming Them

Automation is everywhere these days. While economists often consider the effects of automation in terms of whether it creates or destroys jobs, less attention is paid to how it changes jobs and the wages paid to the workers that perform them. While there are cases where automation can create higher-paying

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Creating XaaS Business (Anything As A Service): Building Scalable Lead-To-Cash Operations For Industry 4.0 With Sales And Back-Office Capabilities

In an XaaS environment, leaders are looking to meet changing customer needs by transforming their lead-to-cash value chain. In the 16th article in our series on digital industrial transformation, we examine how to institute a scalable yet flexible omnichannel sales process. Introduction Shifting to an as-a-service purchasing model can present

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Hackers Are Creating Significant Cybersecurity Challenges As Ransomware Went Wild

Ransomware is on a rampage targeting industry and organizations. It is also and creating significant cybersecurity challenges. Ransomware is a type of malware cyber-attack where key files are encrypted encryption by hackers that renders data inaccessible to the victim. It is a criminal extortion tool and after an attack has

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Creating AI Brain Trust | Why Is Data Analytics Key To AI? Part One Of Three

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEOs to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure their AI programs achieve sustaining results. In this blog series, I have

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Creating AI Brain Trust | Why Is User-Centered Design Literacy Key To AI Competency Development?

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEOs to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure their AI programs achieve sustaining results. In this blog series, I have

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Creating AI Brain Trust | Why Are Agile Methods Literacy Key To AI Skills Competencies?

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEOs to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure their AI programs achieve sustaining results. In this blog series, I have

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Creating AI Brain Trust | A Focus On Quality AI Research Methods

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEO’s to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure their AI programs achieve sustaining results. In this blog series, I have

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Creating AI Brain Trust | A Board Director And CEOs – Emotional And Social Intelligence Skills

This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEOs to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure AI programs achieve sustaining life cycles. Did you know that 80% of

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Creating AI Brain Trust | A Board Director And CEOs – Development Of Stronger Skills And Competencies

Either modernize or atrophy is a reality for laggard companies not preparing to compete in the increasingly intelligent world, where sensors and AI methods will be embedded in every business process. Over 80% of the companies investing in AI do not drive ongoing operational practices, rather AI is an investigative

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