Dateline: February 16, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Leadership as we know it today is soon to be a thing of the past...or is it? As technologies take over more of the decision making activity, based on data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence advances, visionaries are seeing changes in the role of leaders, too. … [Read more...]
Machine Learning Meets Star Trek
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Dateline: October 6, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. There is a lot of hype about the brave new world possible with machine learning, and it's getting harder to separate the hype from reality. Machine learning is a lot of things, and it's been around (in various other forms) for a very long time. Today we see a convergence of … [Read more...]
Machine Learning Shows Promise for Data Security
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Dateline: July 28, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Security of our data continues to be a struggle for many information systems leaders. Recently an article was published at CIO.com titled, Machine Learning is Transforming Data Security. In this article, data security was thought to be a big problem in part because of the cost, … [Read more...]
It’s Not Too Late for Machine Learning Innovations
April 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 7, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Machine learning and other AI building blocks for business processes is all the rage. Using advanced technologies such as these to build in predictive capabilities may feel beyond the capabilities of the general manager struggling to feel in control of all the technology … [Read more...]
Why the C-Suite Needs to Know about Machine Learning
December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 2, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Machine learning has become a major topic among executives as computing costs have decreased and AI and analytics capabilities have increased. The next big frontier for extracting value from company data is an automated approach where the system learns as it processes data. … [Read more...]
AI and the Practice of Management
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Dateline: October 28, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. According to Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, the practice of management is about to change in a big way, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). He shared his thoughts in a recent Sloan Management Review article, Using Artificial Intelligence to Set Information Free. Reid … [Read more...]
Getting Started With Watson, Edison and Other Machine Learning Tech
October 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 21, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have your executives asked about Watson or Edison yet? With all the attention and resources being spent on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cognitive systems, many C-levels are starting to wonder how to apply this type of technology to their business … [Read more...]
