Artificial intelligence is not something unknown today as it used to be, but its impact is still under-estimated. Frankly speaking, I was also doubtful about the massive disruptions led by machine learning and artificial super intelligence, but when we hired AI team for IQVIS, the interaction changed my perspective. My early assessment was that AI will be something (truly disruptive) …
Qualcomm Fights Back: Defending The Future of Innovation and IP Laws
Apple, Qualcomm, and the fight to save innovation. For the last few months, tech giants Apple and Qualcomm have been engaging in an escalating sort of proxy war over licensing fees, royalty fees, and the future of IP laws. As far as we can tell, the conflict appears to be driven in great part by Apple’s attempt to get out …
UX Strategy: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
In the past decade, we’ve seen the creation of many new verbs—tweet, uber, and “swipe left”—added to the global lexicon. The reason: companies like Twitter, Uber, and Tinder have created a UX powerful enough to disrupt our standard way of living. How can all companies experience that kind of success? Hint: it isn’t just about good design. It’s about creating …
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Making the Robots Smarter
If you’ve ever taught a dog to sit or shake, you’re familiar with the concept of reinforcement learning. Positive reinforcement is when an animal—or a child, if you’re lucky—learns a desired behavior based on the rewards it receives for the steps it takes to reach the desired outcome. For example, you give your dog a treat for sitting at the …
Tech and Business Review: June 17, 2017
These last few weeks I’ve been in Vegas for the PegaWorld event, in Phoenix to meet with one of my business partners, to Prescott, AZ (where it was much cooler) and now I’m headed to NOLA tomorrow for the SHRM conference with my partner Eric Vidal and TalentCulture’s Meghan M. Biro for some immersion in the HR and HR tech …
The Operating Model for the Digitally Transformed Enterprise
Effective workplace communication is more than just a topic for an HR memo—it’s the foundation for innovation, collaboration, and all around forward motion for companies in this digital age. Often, organizations embrace social collaboration tools internally as stakeholders work to create a culture ripe for digital transformation success. All that social collaboration is great—necessary, even—but without leveraging the capabilities employees …
Tech and Business Review: June 10, 2017
Last week Shelly Kramer was in Vegas to attend and moderate the Women in Tech panel during the #Pegaworld Conference. Following her tweets during the conference just reiterates the idea that technology is driving innovation in business. Those who do not embrace and adapt digital transformation in their organizations will be left behind. No matter how busy we get, we …
Standardizing AV Technology for Multiple Locations Offer Business Benefits
The importance of our world’s dependence on technology cannot be overstated. In today’s constantly evolving marketplace, the technology we rely on is an essential part of maintaining day-to-day operations, remaining competitive, communicating with our stakeholders, training employees, and protecting the bottom line. And, for companies with multiple places, utilizing different technology in various locations can create levels of complexity. This …
Conversational Systems are the Future of Business
I don’t know about you, but I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with voice-texting. On one hand, it’s so much easier than typing out my messages, especially when I’m on screen overload. On the other hand—my phone seems to be about 70 percent accurate in recognizing my words, which means that I end up going back in to edit my texts …
Seven Common Problems with Tech Marketing and What to Do Instead
I spoke with a CMO recently who claimed that he and his team were experts at the new way technology is marketed. I was taken aback by the assertion. It’s not that I doubted him. But what matters is how prospects are buying. We necessarily must market to their needs and behavior. If prospects’ behavior has changed, or if there …