Platforms have become one of the most important business models of the 21st century. The problem is that platforms fail at an alarming rate. By identifying the sources of failure, managers can avoid the obvious mistakes. To understand why and how platforms fail, we tried to identify as many failed
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Study: Data Privacy And Security Are The Top Challenges For Cloud Adoption
Technology media company Foundry (formerly IDG) released the findings of its ninth Cloud Computing Survey and found that IT decision-makers (ITDMs) are running up against several challenges when implementing a cloud strategy. These include controlling costs, data privacy and the cost of security. According to the survey, budgets for cloud
Study: 90% Of Organizations Say That A Ransomware Attack Caused Them To Lose Business Or Revenue
A successful ransomware attack can devastate an organization, resulting in lost or leaked data, financial pain, business and operational downtime, loss of revenue, and even reputational damage. A new report from security firm Sophos looks at the effects of ransomware on businesses and offers a few tips on how to
A Moral License For AI – A Case Study: Ethics Are The Rules, Actions, Or Behaviors To Get There, But Our Goal Should Be Moral AI
The concept of social license to operate, where a firm openly works with the communities that will be affected by its actions to gain their trust and acceptance, offers an approach for crafting AI solutions that are acceptable to stakeholders. AI And Ethics: A Question Of Social License? “My company
A Study | The Global Artificial Intelligence Landscape
The US is the global market leader for Artificial Intelligence with 40% market share, China (2nd) and Israel (3rd) have the next strongest AI ecosystems. Most other countries lack the needed combination of research, entrepreneurship, funding and M&A to build a sustainable and competitive AI ecosystem. Globally there are too many chatbots and too few real-problem-solving applied AI solutions
Stitch Fix: A Useful Case Study For Retail’s Digital Transformation
The remarkable thing about Stitch Fix, though, isn’t its business model, which blends digital with a healthy bit of reality. It’s the company’s use of algorithms across essentially every single facet of the company. When it comes to data, Stitch Fix is doing it well, and there are a lot of things all companies—not just retail—can learn from it. The following are just a few of my favorite takeaways.
