Dateline: September 1, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. AI and machine learning are all the rage, and the promise of once again transforming the way work is done and decisions are made looms large. One aspect of this promise is the replacement of people with intelligent, decision-making AI and machine learning systems. Recently, … [Read more...]
Realizing the Value from AI and Machine Learning Requires People
Digital Ecosystems
Dateline: July 1, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week's idea was from MIT's recent CIO Symposium. Today's idea also came from that event. Professor Peter Weill, Director at CISR research center, moderated a panel session on Thriving Through Digital Ecosystems. The research discussed in that session found that digital … [Read more...]
Exploit, Don’t Enable
Dateline: August 30, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Two of my favorite IT researchers, Dr. Cynthia Beath and Dr. Jeanne Ross from the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT (CISR), recently published a blog on the Harvard Business Review blog network about their recent work. They suggest that company leaders can no longer … [Read more...]