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Q&A: Businesses need to be the boss of AI, or else

CIO Business Intelligence

As with any revolutionary technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed with both optimism and fear. With FutureIT Los Angeles coming up on March 12, we spoke with Baron – a keynote speaker at the event – about how AI, robotics, and communication technologies are redefining how people interact and businesses operate.

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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Part of the strategy and policy that we put in place in early 2016 around the cloud was that the closer we were to the consumer experience, the more we could abstract from that consumer experience and leverage cloud and commodity services.” “We’ve spent several months in our lab refining the recipes and the processes to make it possible.”

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The current state of data storytelling and its analytical requirements

BI-Survey

optimization) or increase revenues (e.g., An astonishing 85 percent say they are able to use data to optimize resource allocation, which allows them to save costs and act more efficiently throughout their value creation chain. Interactive Analytical Storytelling Report. For another 38 percent, this is at least partly the case.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Instead of continuing to deploy their attention optimization algorithms for their users’ and suppliers’ benefit, the tech giants began to use them to favor themselves. The most-clicked sponsored products were 17% more expensive and 33% lower ranked according to Amazon’s own quality, price, and popularity optimizing algorithms.

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InfoTribes, Reality Brokers

O'Reilly on Data

They form communities and shared realities accordingly and all these interactions are mediated by the incentive systems of the platforms they connect on. Online spaces are novel forms of community: people who haven’t met and may never meet in real life interacting in cyberspace.

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Here’s How Big Data And Business Card Marketing Go Together

Smart Data Collective

Data Floq made this point clear in a post they made in 2016. They can track engagement patterns from websites, focus groups and other interactions. The data that they collect can be used to optimize business cards for better branding results. We can draw a similar conclusion about the relevance of business cards in 2019.

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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

In the constantly shifting, rapidly expanding ecommerce ecosystem, businesses must think creatively about their digital strategies and how best to create dynamic, interactive shopping experiences that improve customer relationships. Just six years after it emerged in 2016, the industry was projected to bring in USD 647 billion in the country.