Research Summary: Artificial Intelligence Delivers Mass Personalization In Commerce
Why Mass Personalization Efforts Fail and Ten Simple Steps to Fix Them Over the past four decades, valiant attempts at personalization have failed due to the lack of relevant and intelligent automation. Moreover, expectations of consumers and prospects have only grown. The result – an expectations gap in personalization that manifests itself in fickler consumers […]
Adaptive Intelligent Applications
Oracle jumped into the AI and machine learning space for its CX products (a.k.a. CRM) and other applications like HCM at OpenWorld with an interesting difference—a huge data store to help educate the algorithms that work for you. Now we’re waiting for products to be delivered this year. Machine learning depends on data about prior […]
Top Tech Trends for 2017
For many years, like most analyst and/or analyst firms I know, I’ve published some sort of annual “predictions” at the start of the new year. This year, in my new role (I can still say “new” for the rest of January, my 1 year anniversary isn’t till tomorrow) I’ve put together a small team (Rob […]
Artificial Intelligence: Legal, ethical, and policy issues
Image from Wikimedia Artificial intelligence has entered mainstream consciousness surrounded by marketing hype, jargon, inflated expectations, and fear. Given the importance of AI, we have started a new series of CXOTALK videos, speaking with experts in areas such as technology, data science, ethics, and public policy. This series kicks off with episode number 203 of […]
Why A Bi-Modal Approach to Digital Transformation Is Just Stupid
Multi-Modal Approach Key to Successful Digital Transformation Like fake news, the over hyped, bi-modal approach to IT and digital transformation is a flawed fallacy perpetuated by ivory tower, non-pragmatic legacy research firms. Lessons learned from successful digital transformation projects emphasize an organizational design comprised of six key virtual or physical teams (see Figure 1): Figure […]
Secrets Behind Building Any AI Driven Smart Service
AI Driven Smart Services Power The Future of IOT, CX, Future of Work, and Block Chains The combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing will change the ways that humans and machines interact with our environments. AI-driven smart services will sense one’s surroundings, know one’s preferences are from past behavior, […]
AI and customer loyalty
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI and ML) have taken the industry by storm with some saying they will usher in a new age of better business processes and customer orientation while others fret that automation will kill jobs. Both might be true. There will definitely be jobs that no longer make sense for humans […]
Dreamforce 2016 – Post One
As I’m headed into another Dreamforce event I plan to keep you updated on the happenings this week. As usual Dreamforce promises to be a whirlwind of activity and a high energy event. I attend a lot of conferences and while it can be a grind sometimes, Dreamforce is usually a high point in the […]
AI’s moment
There’s lots of talk pro and con these days about bots, AI, and intelligent assistants. A lot of this talk is not necessarily new; it’s been percolating around the industry for decades. Vinnie Mirchandani, a friend and truly gifted analyst, wrote a book recently, Silicon Collar that accepts that this automation might be eliminating jobs […]
Yet another AI hype cycle?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 15, 2017
In my recent book, Silicon Collar, I profiled a number of examples of machine learning, cognitive computing and other evolving artificial intelligence. With growing and diverse data sets and massive computing power we have never had so much opportunity to train machines. In many ways it is an exciting time for AI. However, I also […]
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