Most organisations do not understand what good strategy is or are unwilling to make difficult decisions to implement it. Good strategy is so rare that it’s often not anticipated by the competition. A good strategy can therefore often lead to better than anticipated results.

Good strategy is based on …

In this article we introduce two new terms, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) and relate them back to what we covered in the last article about Artificial Intelligence (AI).

As we learned in the last article: AI is the “study of Intelligent Agents: any device that perceives its …

I recently read the book, IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy by Bruce Sinclair. One of the early chapters in the book looks at business modelling. Sinclair writes about the five types of business models, starting with the “Product …

This week China's Xinhua agency introduced a new member to its news team. What's unusual about this presenter is that it's not actually a real person - it's a combination of a computer generated image and AI. The AI news presenter's appearance and voice are based on an existing member of …

Over the years, I’ve been part of the design/architecture process for countless technology engagements. Sometimes as the lead architect, sometimes as a reviewer and sometimes in the early discovery phase. Something that still surprises me is how frequently non-functional requirements are not given enough consideration. Ensuring that both …

In this post, we take a look at why a strong AI/ML capability is a necessary capabilities in order for an organisation to reach a mature digital state.

Let’s start by considering what I mean by a mature digital state. Probably the most commonly used models to assess …

In my previous post on Open Digital Platforms, I introduced the five domains of strategy that Digital Transformation is changing, I looked at how developing digital platforms can lead to significant competitive advantage. In this post, I focus on the data domain and look at the role of Artificial Intelligence …

Digital Transformation is a term that’s become almost as ubiquitous as Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what does it actually mean?, how is it related to a digital platform and how does the openness of a platform influence its successfulness.

In his book, The Digital Transformation Playbook, David …

There was a recent article published in the New York Times on How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons. It described how the economics of being an Uber driver has changed as the platform has grown; furthermore, it details how Uber are resorting to gamification to influence …

Today, most organisations have significant internal datasets and digital services. These resources have the potential to be converted into new revenue streams by securely exposing them to customers and partners as web services. The availability of a number of open source web service frameworks, has meant that it has never …