Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019
There have been over 154,000 AI patents filed worldwide since 2010 with the majority being in health fields (29.5%), Industry-specific solutions (25.3%) and AI-based digital security (15.7%). AI-based marketing patents are the fasting growing global category, reaching a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 29.3% between 2010 and 2018. The second- and third-fastest growing global […]
6 Best Practices For Increasing Security In AWS In A Zero Trust World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported $6.6B in revenue for Q3, 2018 and $18.2B for the first three fiscal quarters of 2018. AWS revenue achieved an impressive 46% year-over-year net sales growth between Q3, 2017 and Q3, 2018 and 49% year-over-year growth for the first three quarters of the year. AWS’ 34% market share is more significant […]
Roadmapping with the loudest guy in the room
Overcoming 🔮Shiny Object Syndrome with customer conversations and data You know the story. You’re the product manager and have worked hard to organize the quarterly product planning meeting with the leadership team and key stakeholders. You’ve engaged customers, worked with the dev team to estimate effort, combed through 1,000 support tickets. Tirelessly charted a thematic vision […]
Seven Implications to Adopting Multimodal On-Demand Mobility
On-demand mobility services continue to evolve fast. New solutions are introduced constantly to address changes in consumer urban transportation tastes, or address shortcomings of existing offerings. Consumers demand for personalized transportation solutions that are affordable, convenient, and safe has led to the rapid growth of ride-hailing. But in cities where it is most popular, single […]
Which Analytics And BI Technologies Will Be The Highest Priority In 2019?
82% of enterprises are prioritizing analytics and BI as part of their budgets for new technologies and cloud-based services. 54% say AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are also a high investment priority. 50% of enterprises say their stronger focus on metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) company-wide are a major driver of […]
Conversational AI goes mainstream at Capital One bank
Capital One is one of the largest banks in the world, with revenue over $27 billion. They are also behind the ubiquitous “What’s in your wallet?” television commercials. To take a deep dive, I invited Capital One’s head of conversational AI, Ken Dodelin, as my guest on the CXOTalk series of conversations with business and […]
Trends: Constellation 2018 Enterprise Awards
Awards Recognize Mostly The Pinnacle and A Tinge Of Nadir For Enterprise Tech In 2018, enterprise tech remained fast-paced, innovative, and action-packed. The Constellation Research team attended over 250 enterprise tech events, handled 1000’s of inquiries and briefings, dealt with 1000’s of media inquiries, and reached 100’s of millions in the social sphere. With that […]
10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales
Sales teams adopting AI are seeing an increase in leads and appointments of more than 50%, cost reductions of 40%–60%, and call time reductions of 60%–70% according to the Harvard Business Review article Why Salespeople Need to Develop Machine Intelligence. 62% of highest performing salespeople predict guided selling adoption will accelerate based on its ability rank potential opportunities […]
Problems with Product Discovery
Working with Product Manager customers on product discovery, I’ve observed some interesting patterns. Teams move from problems to solutions too quickly, use MVPs for solution feedback, are biased on singular requests, and loose context across the process. If the following observations seem like common sense and aren’t problems with your team, good for you! Moving […]
How To Protect Healthcare Records In A Zero Trust World
There’s been a staggering 298.4% growth in the reported number of patient records breached as a result of insider-wrongdoing this year alone according to Protenus. The total disclosed number of breached patient records has soared from 1.1M in Q1 2018 to 4.4M in Q3 2018 alone, 680K of which were breached by insiders. There were 117 disclosed health […]
