Technology
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Get ready for EU AI act
The AI Act outlines a set of rules for organizations operating in the EU with enforcement starting in late 2024 and expanding through 2027. Almost every organization has exposure to the AI Act because you are responsible for not only the AI capabilities you build, but also those capabilities you already bought. An organization will… Continue reading
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First gradually, then suddenly!
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, a narrator asks his drunk friend how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers, “First gradually, then suddenly.” Some technological changes happen that way too. Technologies that have been ascending in a small way burst into the mainstream and are adopted everywhere. AI is now going through… Continue reading
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AI readiness
Sooner or later, organizations that are still sitting on the fence with their AI decision will have to be in the game to defend, compete, and differentiate. The suggestion in the meantime would be that even if you are not ready for AI, you need to be AI-ready. Continue reading
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Programmable Hardware
As we advance with technology, programmable hardware will be on the rise. These hardware are built on modular architectures with software and interfacing capabilities. The problem for industrial organizations is that the old reliable machines have a replacement cycle of at least a decade. In order to stay competitive, short term fix for industrial organizations… Continue reading
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Are we moving towards Industry specific and organization specific GPTs?
General-purpose models perform well across a broad set of applications, but they’re often impractical for enterprise use cases that require domain-specific data and terminology. By 2027, more than 50% of the GenAI models that enterprises use will be domain-specific — specific to either an industry or business function — up from approximately 1% in 2023. We… Continue reading
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What are Industrials learning from digital world companies?
Industrial organizations are still way behind in their data journey, in most of the cases these organizations are infact not collecting the important data. Even if the data is collected this isn’t being used the way Digital first organizations use their data, which is creating Datagraphs (interrelationships between different entities of the organization). Uber analyzes… Continue reading
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Building ‘Tech Intensity’ before embarking on Digital Maturity
An organization’s digital maturity starts with building foundations and synergies with its capabilities, technology and architecture. Capabilities: Technology: Architecture: When capabilities, technology and architecture work together this creates the ‘tech intensity’ for the organization. Adapted on HBR research. Continue reading
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How CTO teams are driving/helping with sustainability agenda
Sustainability has become a key part of the CTO’s job description. CTOs should ensure that their charter and responsibilities involve driving sustainability innovations through technology. In 2023, a lot of sustainability investment was focused around carbon footprint. Future sustainability requirements will extend to a wider range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. This will… Continue reading
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Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast!
A good idea on steroids quickly becomes a terrible idea. Morgan Housel shared – Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote to senior management in 2007: “In order to go from less than 1,000 stores to 13,000 stores we have had to make a series of decisions, that, in retrospect, have led to the watering down of… Continue reading
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