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- Speed, Ease, and Expertise With AI: Lenovo’s Linda Yao
by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. <p><a href="https://sloanreview.mit.edu/sam-ransbotham/">Sam Ransbotham</a> is a professor in the information systems department at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, as well as guest editor for <cite>MIT Sloan Management Review</cite>’s Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Big Ideas initiative. Shervin Khodabandeh is a senior partner and managing director at BCG and the coleader of BCG GAMMA (BCG’s AI practice) in North America. He can be contacted at <a href="mailto:shervin@bcg.com">shervin@bcg.com</a>.</p> <p class="mt20"><cite>Me, Myself, and AI</cite> is a collaborative podcast from <cite>MIT Sloan Management Review</cite> and Boston Consulting Group and is hosted by Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh. Our engineer is David Lishansky, and the coordinating producers are Allison Ryder and Alanna Hooper.</p> on 01.04.2025 at 11:00Linda Yao, chief operating officer and head of strategy for Lenovo’s Strategy, Solutions, and Services Group and vice president of hybrid cloud and AI solutions, joins the Me, Myself, and AI podcast to explain the organization’s transition from technology product company to managed services provider. It’s now helping organizations with the change management required to
- Generate Value From GenAI With ‘Small t’ Transformations
by Melissa Webster and George Westerman. <p>Melissa Webster is a lecturer in managerial communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. George Westerman is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a coauthor of the award-winning book <cite>Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation</cite> (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014).</p> on 22.01.2025 at 12:00Neil Webb Less than two years ago, generative AI made headlines with its amazing new capabilities: It could engage in conversations; interpret massive amounts of text, audio, or imagery; and even create new documents and artwork. After the fastest technology adoption in history — with over 100 million users in the first two months —
- Three Questions to Ask About Your Digital Strategy
by Murat Tarakci, Fabian J. Sting, Jan Recker, and Gerald C. Kane. <p>Murat Tarakci is a professor and the chair of innovation strategy at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University. Fabian J. Sting is the chair of supply chain management — strategy and innovation at the University of Cologne and the chaired professor of digital supply chain innovation at the Rotterdam School of Management. Jan Recker is the Nucleus Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg Business School. Gerald C. Kane is the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair in Business Administration at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.</p> on 16.07.2024 at 11:00Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images The Research The authors conducted numerous interviews and onsite observations during a period of six years at Australian retail chain Woolworths as it engaged in strategic competition with Amazon. They then reviewed dozens of case studies on digital disruption and digital strategic competitions, as well as scientific literature on
- Data-Driven Health Care: Enhancing Patient Outcomes Through Digital Engineering
by Nick Jena and Madhuri Hegde. <p class="mt10"><strong>Nick Jena</strong> is a vice president of health care and life sciences at Persistent Systems. His team of subject matter experts focuses on high-value solutions and custom development for health care and life sciences by leveraging advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, automation, and analytics. He has been closely associated with the health care and life sciences industries for more than seven years. His role involves evaluating and promoting the latest solutions, partnerships, and techniques in product engineering, with emphasis on those two industries.</p> <p class="mt20"><strong>Madhuri Hegde</strong> is the senior vice president and chief scientific officer of Revvity and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. She has more than 25 years of experience in clinical diagnostics and is board-certified in clinical molecular genetics. She serves on the boards of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Foundation and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, among others. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, completing postdoctoral studies at Baylor College of Medicine.</p> on 05.06.2024 at 13:13Left: Nick Jena, Vice President of Health Care and Life Sciences, Persistent Systems. Right: Madhuri Hegde, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Revvity. About Persistent Systems With more than 23,800 employees located in 21 countries, Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) is a global services and solutions company delivering digital engineering and enterprise modernization.
- The GenAI Blind Spot Leaders Have Now
by MIT Sloan Management Review. on 30.05.2024 at 11:00Given the rapid pace at which generative AI continues to advance, it’s natural to worry about the completeness of your implementation plans. To help leaders understand the potential pitfalls better, MIT Sloan Management Review interviewed AI experts and IT practitioners at the recent MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. In this first video of a two-part series,
- Want Better GenAI Results? Try Speed Bumpsby MIT Sloan Management Review. on 25.04.2024 at 11:00
Generative AI has vast potential to augment our work, now and in the future, but there’s a very real danger of human workers ceding too much control to machines and becoming complacent about mistakes. Maintaining a “human in the loop” is often touted as the antidote to catching errors, but MIT senior lecturer and research
- How Grassroots Automation Speeds Digital Successby Thomas H. Davenport, Ian Barkin, and Laurianne McLaughlin. <p>Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser to Deloitte. He is coauthor of <cite>All-in on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big With Artificial Intelligence</cite> (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023) and <cite>Working With AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration</cite> (MIT Press, 2022). Ian Barkin is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor in citizen automator technology and services firms. He is a coauthor of <cite>Intelligent Automation: Welcome to the World of Hyperautomation</cite> (World Scientific Publishing, 2020). Laurianne McLaughlin is senior editor, digital, for <cite>MIT Sloan Management Review</cite>. She moderated the session.</p> on 18.04.2024 at 11:26
Related Reading I. Barkin and T.H. Davenport, “Harnessing Grassroots Automation,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Sept. 11, 2023. Companies must digitize to survive — but many can’t find the developers and data scientists to do so. To keep pace, leaders are launching citizen development initiatives to harness the creativity and business acumen of their nontechnical “citizens.”
- How Lufthansa Shapes Data-Driven Transformation Leaders
by Christian Haude, Ivo Blohm, and Xavier Lagardère. <p>Christian Haude is senior data strategy and innovation manager at Lufthansa Group. Ivo Blohm is associate professor for information systems and business analytics at the Institute of Information Systems and Digital Business at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Xavier Lagardère is managing director of the Lufthansa Innovation Hub and head of data and innovation at Lufthansa Group.</p> on 18.04.2024 at 11:00Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Up in the air, a modern plane generates 1 terabyte of data every 24 hours of flight. For airlines like the Lufthansa Group, this data can be used to create valuable business outcomes, from improved operational efficiency to higher customer satisfaction. On top of this rich data set, Lufthansa
- How AI Changes Your Workforceby MIT Sloan Management Review. on 28.03.2024 at 11:00
Today’s leaders must grapple with big expectations for the impact of AI on the workforce — and an even larger amount of hype. Will AI automate away a huge number of jobs? How do companies use AI to find new talent and staff new opportunities? How do leaders use AI as part of the workforce
- Empower Citizen Developers to Accelerate Innovationby A webinar with Richard Jefts, Andrew Manby, and Wade Roush. <p>Richard Jefts is executive vice president for HCLSoftware. Andrew Manby is vice president of product management for HCLSoftware. Moderator Wade Roush is a business and technology journalist.</p> on 20.03.2024 at 15:09
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