AI Readiness
Every time a new technology wave hits, organizations make the same mistake: they hand it to IT and wait. This series makes the case that AI readiness is an organizational capability – built from what Finance, Sales & Marketing, Product Development, Operations, IT, and executive leadership each uniquely contribute. Six articles, one per functional area, plus a practical framework for measuring where you actually stand.
Leading AI Innovation
Inspiring, and then driving, change through an organization, delivering real innovation that is sustainable, can be a challenge. This series of articles looks at specific skills and tactics that are critical for a truly effective leader, and updated for the modern era of AI.
The Data Value Chain
Data creates value through a chain of seven skills, from the imagination to ask the right question to the ability to make the answer matter. This series introduces the Data Value Chain framework, shows how AI shifted the bottleneck from technical infrastructure to human judgment, and explores what happens when AI cracks open the 80% of organizational knowledge that was never in a database to begin with.
Five Building Blocks
When people talk about a “digital transformation”, they typically focus on a few parts of the process – and a lot of the cool technology. In this series, you will hear about the five core components that a Great Digital Business should include – and a (possibly) surprising idea about where that focus truly belongs.
Digital Participation
The success of your Great Digital Business will be driven by your leadership teams’ ability to come together in a new and different way. Diverse areas of expertise need to mix and merge, bringing their unique strengths to the table to create something that’s bigger than the sum of its parts.
IOT Field Notes: Discovery
Tales from the front lines of the IoT revolution; how exactly do these innovative ideas fit in with the culture, history, and strategic intent of your company? This series of articles opens up your thinking to new ideas …
IOT Field Notes: Getting Started
Tales from the front lines of the IoT revolution; this series of articles deals with the beginning of the journey. How do you get started? And how can you get focused quickly?
IOT Field Notes: Applied Tech
Tales from the front lines of the IoT revolution; this series of articles covers stories about hands-on work with the new technology – and the customer- and product-focused lessons learned.
IOT Field Notes: Product Management
More tales from the front lines of the IoT revolution; these articles will drill into critical issues for the Product Manager, including identifying how to Create Value (and identify who will pay for it), plus building a business case for the ramp-up.
Capturing Knowledge
Collaboration creates real value, but the technology platform is not the “magic” – it’s the creation (and maintenance) of the content itself. This series drills into the requirements for effective knowledge capture – and how they translate into value.