AI projects can often feel insurmountable due to the time and effort involved to move them into production. Here are five recommendations to help CIOs and their teams reach the summit. The recent new regulations for climbing Mount Everest give us some surprising parallels, lessons learned, and best practices between the physical risks of mountaineering and the…
A typical dilemma is a choice between two options. However, today’s innovators and CIOs face a different challenge of dealing with both probabilistic and deterministic code, not separately, but together in a new hybrid application landscape. What most people thought was going to be another year of agentic AI is quickly turning into a more…
The power of AI is undeniable, but without trust, its promise will remain dangerously constrained. For the third consecutive year, the Thinkers360 AI Trust Index has taken the pulse of sentiment toward AI, and the results, once again, are a stark reminder to CIOs and CXOs that the technological innovation curve continues to outpace the ethical and governance…
Use this approach to identify a consensus-based set of gen AI use cases that focus on both tactical and strategic opportunities for your implementation roadmap. When it comes to identifying and prioritizing opportunities for business value across the enterprise, gen AI use cases, specifically, are arguably no different than any other technology-related ones. It all comes…
Implementing this checklist can help you realize the value of an effective gen AI strategy amid all the distraction, and foster a culture of strategic investment and innovation. What makes generative AI implementations so challenging? As a disruptive technology, it’s being felt in terms of both its magnitude and frequency of change. So many vendors,…
Whether securing your first management position or stepping into a larger role, personal branding is vital to any stage of your career. Here are some best practices to utilize, even if your place within the C-suite is already justified. In addition to showcasing your executive experience and accomplishments, effective and targeted personal branding can demonstrate…
Addressing key steps to structure an annual innovation contest, based on culture and core values, that strengthens best practices. When it comes to sourcing ideas from across the organization, there’s a number of well-proven techniques ranging from specific event-based ideation sessions and broader innovation contests, challenges and pitch days, to ongoing enterprise innovation processes, incubators…
While AI’s impact on the workforce is clearly top-of-mind for most organizations, executives have many additional questions which need to be addressed to clarify the impact of the technology on their business models, processes, products and services – and their market and competitive position under different AI adoption scenarios. The exact question set varies by…
Leaders in public sector organizations are facing ever-increasing demands and expectations from their constituents to deliver services more effectively and efficiently, to streamline processes, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction all the while dealing with limited resources in terms of personnel and budgets. In this environment, innovation – and, more specifically, accelerating the…
With so much interest and activity around innovation workshops, design thinking workshops and other forms of event-based idea generation (ideation) sessions in support of digital transformation initiatives, it’s time to re-visit the age-old Post-It’s versus software debate. Of course, a well-run ideation session using Post-It’s will trump a less-effectively run session using software every time,…