Enabling Technology
AI Adoption & Business value: a lesson from the Ireland of 1908
To get a sense of just how hard it is to go from “nailed the science bit!” to “serious business value”, let’s take a look at an earlier technological revolution — the electric motor.
Read MoreDigital Supply Chain Architecture: Less ERP, More Cloud
To build resilient supply chains, companies are replacing core enterprise resource planning technology with cloud-based capabilities.
Read MoreThe new digital edge: Rethinking strategy for the postpandemic era
Our latest survey confirms that the future will belong to companies that put technology at the center of their outlook, capabilities, and leadership mandate.
Read MoreHow To Think Like A Data Analyst: The Business Leader’s Guide
Learn how to ask better questions. Build new skills for the digital age.
Read MoreThis AI platform tracks corporate climate risks around the world
The new tool from Cervest shows physical risks such as floods or droughts that have happened historically and then predicts what will happen over the next 80 years.
Read MoreThe Impact of MuZero and How AI Could Change Strategy Making
Until a few years ago, the only AI agent capable of strategy making was OpenAI’s multi-agent system. OpenAI Five was capable of playing the complex strategy game Dota2 at superhuman levels. While the OpenAI Five engineers coded the various features, rules and reward functions of the game, it learned by playing against itself; 180 years per day. It was a remarkable…
Read MoreHow Upgrading Technology Helps Modernize the Business
New ERP and SaaS systems can spur changes in the operating model.
Read MoreCreating Valuable (and Trusted) Experiences With Digital Personas
Deepfakes have received much (well-deserved) bad press — but the underlying technology holds plenty of potential for companies to build positive customer experiences.
Read MoreFord’s Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.
Read MoreAlgorithmic Nudges Don’t Have to Be Unethical
“Nudging” — the strategy of changing users’ behavior based on how apparently free choices are presented to them — has come a long way since the concept was popularized by University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein in 2008. With so much data about individual users and with the…
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