Category Archives: Artifical Intelligence

Transformation is not a Job Title

The average Chief Digital Officer lasts 31 months. Shortest tenure in the C-suite, falling every year. 75% leave the company entirely when they go, not sideways into another role, out the door. Nearly half of CDOs themselves describe the position … Continue reading

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The TikTok AI Trap

You have seen the pattern. A 45-second video of someone typing a prompt into ChatGPT. A flashy demo at a conference. A LinkedIn post with a before-and-after screenshot and the caption “AI just changed everything.” Three thousand likes. Zero production … Continue reading

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The Belt-and-Shaft Problem and its impact on AI

In 1881, the first factory switched from steam to electricity. You would expect a productivity revolution. It did not happen. For nearly 50 years, factories replaced the central steam engine with a central electric motor and kept everything else the … Continue reading

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The faster Horse that never was

Henry Ford probably never said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” The quote first surfaced in a 2001 marketing magazine letter, 54 years after Ford died. No historian has found it in … Continue reading

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Think Different about AI

Many organizations treat AI like a coachman treats a combustion engine. They strap it to the old cart. These series of posts each expose a different version of that fallacy, building from the individual mental model to the organizational operating … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence – Creating the Environment for Adoption

Part II: Best practices and opportunities In the previous post, we were describing the main blockers that are preventing businesses from a successful adoption of AI. We identified and analyzed these five areas: vision and commitment from executive teams and … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence – Creating the Environment for Adoption

Part I: The blockers AI or Artificial Intelligence promises to unlock growth and raise productivity. While some companies started to adopt Artificial Intelligence successfully, many industries remain relatively untouched by AI. How to increase the adoption of AI is now … Continue reading

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Artificial Intelligence to power the next wave of enterprise apps

What is behind the rise in enterprise apps and why has the apps market suddenly been alerted to the analytic power and automation of processes that AI offers? Despite the hype, vendor noise and press column inches, artificial intelligence (AI) … Continue reading

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Data: The world’s most underused valuable resource

The cover story of the May 6th, 2017 issue of The Economist boldly proclaimed data as “the world’s most valuable resource,” which is a new reality that has taken shape over the years. Technology used to be all about products, … Continue reading

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RIP enterprise search – AI-based cognitive insight is the future

Earlier in 2017, The Economist declared that the ‘world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data’. Few would argue with this. Data and information are at the heart of the modern enterprise, empowering knowledge workers with the insight … Continue reading

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