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How CIOs can scale gen AI | McKinsey
The honeymoon phase of generative AI (gen AI) is over. As most organizations are learning, it is relatively easy to build gee-whiz gen AI pilots, but turning them into at-scale capabilities is another story. The difficulty in making that leap goes a long way to...
3 Reasons Why The Promised Gains From A.I. Are Still Faraway
A.I. Hype Is Generating Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars In Investment. Yet A.I. Is Bad At Math, Hobbled by Inconsistent Data, And Crippled by Siloed Expertise. AI, we are told, is the future. It will transform every aspect of human life, fully justifying the hundreds...
The quantified organization: Grail or Big Brother?
Thanks to the growing mass of data they capture, businesses are in a position to understand how their employees are doing and how they function, and to imp Thanks to the growing mass of data they capture, businesses are in a position to understand how their employees...
Cutting-Edge Infrastructure Best Practices for Enterprise AI Data Pipelines
The ability to harness, process, and leverage vast amounts of data sets leading organizations apart in today's data-driven landscape. To stay ahead, The ability to harness, process, and leverage vast amounts of data sets leading organizations apart in today’s...
“AI Revolutionizes Transportation: Enhancing Efficiency, Safety, and Sustainability Across the Globe | DC Velocity
AI is transforming transportation by improving efficiency, enhancing safety, and promoting sustainability, reshaping how goods and people move globally. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the transportation sector by enhancing efficiency, safety, and user...
Recent Briefings
How Could AI Agents Improve The Co-ordination of Work?
In large organisations today, the dominant form of work co-ordination is still old-fashioned ‘manual’ management and meetings, despite the existence of accessible, simple technologies that could solve this problem more effectively. As The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson...
Small is Beautiful: Cats vs Megamind
In Don’t Fear the Coming Trough of AI Disillusionment, in January, I wrote: “I believe what is emerging in enterprise AI has the potential to accelerate the path towards smart organisations that go beyond the limits of the C20th corporation. But first, we will need to...
How Apple’s late entry could advance multi-agent AI in the enterprise
Enterprise AI Adoption Update Last week saw the publication of an interesting research report from the Asana Work Innovation Lab and Anthropic, which surveyed 5000+ individuals in the UK and USA to assess the current state of AI adoption in the enterprise. The report...
0.48kWh Should be Enough for Anybody
Exciting and Stupid Google has embarrassed itself once again with hasty roll-out of generative AI features, serving up ‘AI overviews’ for search topics that include glue in Pizza recipes, health suggestions such as ‘eat rocks’ and a whole host of confused, basic...
(Don’t) Hail the Chief!
When a new technology or way of working emerges, the first instinct of many organisations is to appoint a Chief X Officer, which provides the comfort of knowing somebody has ‘got this’ and also that there is ‘one throat to choke’ in terms of accountability. And of...