Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Win With AI: IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio

    Win With AI_ IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio

    The IBM Win With AI Summit was a powerful event for IBM Business Partners and AI practitioners. Watch the video to learn what’s new with IBM Watson Studio and the all-new IBM Cloud Private for Data. If you’ve ever wanted one view of your customer or data management with strong governance built in, you’ll want to learn more.

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    In today’s episode it look back at the win with AI summit full disclosure, I am champion of my company is a IBM bridge to business partners. So we do receive financial benefit. If you do happen to buy something from IBM,

    the one with AI summit was a combination event. The first half of it was for IBM business partners to understand what was coming down the pike.

    And then the second half was sort of a public event where people could could see and hear about some of the use cases. There were two product lines that IBM focused on. And I think both of them have profound positive implications for anyone who is a data driven marketer or well, frankly, for anyone who’s data driven period. The first product line is

    Watson studio there have been a number of advances since studio deployed in March. I’ve been using it since March when it was announced at IBM think. And I like studio. It’s a good environment, especially if you want to be using modelers rather than writing code. So one of the main advantages of studio is that if you know the architecture that you’re going after, whether it’s statistical in nature, and we’re using the SPSS modeler, or it is machine learning and deep learning in nature, we using the neural network model as long as you know what you’re doing conceptually, you can drag and drop the pieces of the statistics you want to do

    right in the interface. You don’t have to write code and then you just plop the output into the system and feed your data in and it does its thing and you can’t with results, which again is a great way for somebody who doesn’t necessarily know how to

    To write code and our or Python to be productive in machine learning, deep learning statistics, etc.

    But

    most marketers don’t need the full power of public cloud, which is the cloud environment in which Watson studio lives. And, and there are a few quirks in the system here and there, but particularly when you’re moving files in and out, or you’re moving in large amounts of unstructured data.

    But one of the major announcements was at Watson’s to us coming to the desktop as a desktop application,

    and it will function as a native app, which means that it’s not just a window that goes to the browser version, which is fine with the browser version, but it will actually be full native application with the ability to use files locally, which makes me very happy because again, that’s much faster. You can use it like you with the same ease of use that you’d use a spreadsheet application.

    Or that you would use your email on your desktop. And that that’s phenomenal. Because I look forward to being able to roll that out to

    to customers to the team at trust insights and to

    partners to say, Hey, we built this model using this combination of techniques.

    And while the model me proprietary, if everyone’s on the same platform, we can pick the model up and move it around. And even if a customer doesn’t necessarily have studio desktop, because it’s it’s all one code base

    will be able to take that model and just give it to them to run in the cloud environment.

    The net benefit of this is faster algorithms, faster machine learning models, faster deep learning models, it’s

    fewer errors because again, you’re not slinging rock hold you slinging.

    abstracting code in in models and

    for portability, being a being able to get to answers and and let other people who are not hardcore coders get two answers to. So I think it’s gonna be a major leap forward for the platform. It’s going to also normalize stuff like the data science experience and and make it all one uniform experience which will be good.

    The other thing that was really interesting about the event from the Watson studio perspective is that I actually got to sit down with the Distinguished Engineer who built satchel port part of it, which is something that doesn’t often happen and it’s one of the things I love about about working with IBM is that you get to talk to the people who are actually making the product and say, Well why does it do this and

    showed the the engineer one thing less the last night and he’s like, Ha.

    I shouldn’t do that, give me an email said a book report on this,

    which is fantastic. Because we all we want the product to be better. We want the product to be usable by everybody. We want our customers and our clients to be able to use the product as well and and iterate on what we do. So Watson studio a lot to look forward to there. And

    again, I’m really looking forward to that desktop app. The ability to to share my work and my ideas with my team and have them makes knowledge just make suggestions but actually be able to jump in and reorder concepts

    that way they can spend their time on the strategy and the implementation and not the How do I code this? What’s the function for this? Am I missing a semi colon here?

    things that get in the way of right now

    the second major announcement

    Was

    it really was around the they call cloud private for data

    which is an abstraction layer for those for those folks who have been in the IBM ecosystem for a while, as developers

    and no blue, what we should call blue mix is now just called IBM Cloud. There was a service debuted

    two years ago, I think called Blue mix Lyft which said, Let’s take your databases wherever they are, and pick them up and move them into the cloud. And it was a relatively quiet product. And not too many people knew about it.

    But what IBM has done since then is convert this thing to this thing called Cloud private for data, which is an abstraction layer that

    allows you to have a cloud like environment for your databases, but it doesn’t require you to pick up the move of the data.

    basis because for a lot of companies, particularly ones in highly regulated industries, you can’t move your database into the cloud, you are forbidden to do. So

    there may be geographic restrictions, they may be security restrictions, and so on and so forth. So wouldn’t it be great to be able to, to have an environment in which you simulate that the benefits of it, the being able to access all of your data at once in one spot, but not have to

    not have to deal with the regulations and that’s what cloud private for data promises in the marketing world. There’s this concept and there’s some companies that that do this called a customer data platform. And the idea being that your customer data is everywhere, right? You’ve got social media data, that email data, you’ve got CRM, data, marketing, automation data, you’ve got all this stuff in all these different systems all over the place. And because all the systems are

    scattered everywhere summer on premise like your CRM or your P system some of them are in the cloud some of them are not even really databases like you know your Twitter analytics yet Twitter has the base but you don’t

    because everything is everywhere you don’t really have a good sense of

    your customer right you the the promises called like one view of the customer or a 360 degree view of the customer which has been a popular thing for a number of years

    these companies you CBP platforms promised to bring all that in, use their proprietary mix of machine learning data whatever to try and and unify those customer records and

    and give you a like, Hey, here’s the thing but

    there are issues with obviously regulation with compliance.

    With governance with data governance around these systems, and they’re not, they’re not cheap for the ones that are hosted services. And they’re not easy for the ones that are on premise services or, or private cloud services.

    I was working with one customer not too long ago, looking at the inner workings of their platform they built themselves

    it was a little messy

    and it wasn’t working really well. And

    what they needed was strong data governance,

    the ability to say like, let’s,

    let’s set some rules about this data, where it came from, how it can be used, how it should be used, and what the logical outputs are.

    What cloud private for data does is essentially that it’s a it’s an essentially it’s an ingestion engine.

    It is a unification service that you configure the rules for us a this is related to this

    powered by machine learning and and some deep learning because one of the things it does is it tries to do use deep learning to to build semantic relationships between tables so if one table has Chris pan and the other table has Christopher pen

    he understands is a semantic relationship between the two they’re they’re closely related and will auto suggest Hayden you should probably link these things together

    and

    it will also brings in natural language querying. So

    if you instead of having to write sequel statements all there’s nothing wrong with sequel statements. I like them.

    Your average non technical user is not someone who is fluent in in the sequel language, the structured query language they are good at asking.

    Regular questions like how many people signed up for our services yesterday? That would be the kind of question that a business user would ask. And cloud private for data allows you to ask regular normal questions as well as, as see all your data in real time.

    What is I think is so powerful about it is the governance you write rules in the system

    that govern things like data sovereignty? Where did this data come from? And where is it allowed to go?

    What is or is not protected health information, personally identifiable information, sensitive personal information, all the different categories that we have to deal with as marketers and as business people to say, like, yes, we can use this data. No, we can’t use this data. Where can the data transit so

    if you are still working on your GDPR compliance, you need to know like Yes, I can.

    will permit the state to move to hear from here? No, I will not permit the state of to go here. So for example, if you are working with you folks, people within the European Economic Area, you have a very specific set of rules about what you may and may not do with that data.

    And cloud private for data allows you to write those rules. But then it converts those rules into into system policies that you can auto manipulate the data with. For example,

    if you are using data for machine learning to better understand the customer and do forecasting and you’ve got this huge data set from the EU

    unless the consumer explicitly gave you permission to use that data for machine learning. You have to de identify you have to anonymize it

    right now. I can’t think of a single

    A customer data platform service that will do that in compliance with the rules but still permit you access to the models in cloud prior for data. You set up the policy, you set the rule. And the rule triggers the software to D anonymize all the personal identifiable columns. And

    even with permission list may or may not even allow certain people within your organization, even access to the data. But your data science team or your marketing data team would get the de identified data set. They would not get the raw data set.

    And then they could do machine living predictions on stuff that is not personally identifiable like time on page or number of tweet replies, whatever, but they have no idea who the person is. And so the data is then being used in compliance with GDPR and

    and still not inhibiting your ability to do business. One of the quotes I heard yesterday which I thought was phenomenal was

    the more

    sensitive and personal the information is the less useful it is from Sheila me because you’re not you’re not able to draw strong trends and forecasts and predictions on uniquely individual things.

    If you had my

    my social security number and there is zero predictive power in that number, but knowing that I am

    identify as male, that’s a much bigger broader aspect and that is probably a better predictor and my social security number so the less personal data you have

    you’re probably better off removing that data anyways so having cloud pirate for data either mascot DNR de identified or or prohibit access to it is going to be a good thing.

    And then of course being IBM you can take all the data that you do build in cloud private for data and pass it to things like Watson studio for

    That modeling for that advanced machine learning and deep learning, and so

    having the to work together, but still, the quote was yesterday move your AI to your data rather than trying to move your data to your AI, move your data, your data, make the I live close to the data.

    That’s a important idea because

    it lets you and it lets the people who work in your organization, do the analysis where the data lives, not screw up the the data and

    really apply that strong governance to it, but

    all the identification, the quality of the data,

    and so

    wrapping up

    these two products cloud prior for data, which unifies your data and it’s going to take you some work it’s not a magic wand it will take you some work to get it to get it implemented well, but cloud private data and then Watson studio

    Then the Watson machine learning platform and sort of the machine learning engine

    really paint a picture of

    you being able to take your data

    cleanup, manipulate it, prepare it for machine learning, pass it to Watson studio, and then you being able to drag and drop your way to working models. As long as you know you’re doing conceptually, it will save you a substantial amount of time in and then be able to immediately hand that off for business usage.

    It’s

    the best analogy I can think of is that IBM has significantly declutter your kitchen, right? Instead of having 44 different types of frying pan and that’s 37 spatula. You’ve now got maybe a half dozen of each and

    it’s easier to find things it’s easy to do things you do still need to know how to cook

    but the kitchen is much neater

    The kitchen is much easier to use than it used to be.

    So

    I extend my thanks to the business partner team to the social VIP Team into the champion team at IBM for having me at the event and for letting me and my my fellow partners and stuff, work with the software

    actually do hands on and

    let us talk to the people who are building the thing and asked very, very technical questions of them.

    And I would strongly recommend that if you are interested in

    data unification

    if you are interested in machine learning that you try out these services as a registered business partner trust insights is happy to

    make whatever introductions need to be made

    to an IBM team and will help you build the models if it’s appropriate to do so.

    But there’s so much to be optimistic about. There’s so much to be excited about with

    where machine learning is going, where AI is going and how much easier it’s getting and how much more accessible it’s getting for everyone, not just for the the super technical folks. So I hope you give it a try. And as always, if you have questions or comments about

    this, leave it in the comments on on wherever it is you singles video or reading the transcript to listen to the audio and please subscribe to the YouTube channel, my newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Promise of AI and Data for Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer: The Promise of AI and Data for Marketing

    Denis asks, “What is the big promise that AI holds when it comes to data? What types of solutions do you see emerging from this that will help marketers?”

    Look at the data science lifecycle. Every repeatable choice along this lifecycle has at least some portion which is a repetitive, predictable process. Where we’ll see the earliest, easiest wins is in the first third. Watch the video for full details.

    You Ask, I Answer: The Promise of AI and Data for Marketing
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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks, What is the big promise that AI holds? When it comes to data? What types of solutions do you see emerging from this that will help marketers

    win? When we think about data and marketing, one of the biggest gaps is that we frankly, aren’t using enough of it. According to a relatively recent statistic by IBM, up to 90% of data within a corporation goes unused. And

    there are a lot of marketers who are still what I would call data resistant, they are not doing as much with data as they could be, they have systems that are collecting data, but they don’t really use it, they don’t look at it, they don’t

    they don’t use it to change behavior or to to, to improve marketing. Real simple example of this. Yeah, think about just how much information is in Google Analytics? And how much do you actually look at? How often do you look at it, the answers usually are not as much as I should look, and not as often as I should look, right, because it can be overwhelming for some folks who, again, are not living in in their data

    more broadly, when you look at the data science lifecycle, and you and you see this,

    this rhythm of data, define, ingest, analyze, repair, clean, prepare, augment, explore, compare, predict, prescribed, model, validate, refined, deploy, observe almost every step, and the data science lifecycle has at least some portion of the tasks in it,

    that is repetitive work. And anytime you’ve got repetitive work, you’ve got a candidate for robotic process automation, or machine learning, or potentially deep learning, depending on how complex the problem is, and, and the technologies that are available to you.

    And so the opportunity for marketers is, as they become more data driven as, as their companies demand that they become more data driven, and that they use machine learning and artificial intelligence to accomplish those tasks. And where the early wins are going to be is all in that first third of the life cycle. When you’re looking at bringing in data ingesting data from multiple sources. A big part of that is identifying where is the date, and there are packages of software, IBM Cloud lift as an example that you can deploy within the enterprise. And it will essentially do digital sniffing around and pull helping you pull data out of heterogeneous incompatible systems and get it at least in one place. The same is true for analysis, repair, and cleaning of data. There are a number of excellent libraries in the various programming languages that do amputation, which is computing missing values, there are anomaly detection libraries that can help you figure out up there are some oddities in this data that we need to clean up. And of course, in data preparation, there are any number of tools that can help you prepare your data for

    analysis for use for building models from for in the machine learning realm. And so that’s where that’s where the opportunity is, the opportunity is for marketers really early on is all about how do we get at our data? How do we prepare it for us? And then how do we start building

    building solutions with that data

    in terms of what those solutions look like for the most advanced marketers, they’re already in place. And those are marketers who either all are also data scientists or, and machine learning specialists or have those capabilities somewhere within their company where the average marketer is going to see benefit is in the various products and services that they already use. Most of

    most companies that are in that providing marketing technology are moving in this general direction at at varying speeds. We see some hints of this in tools like Google Analytics intelligence, where if you’ve ever seen the little blue icon in the upper upper right hand corner of the analytics screen, you tap it and you can ask your analytics questions. You see this in Watson Analytics by IBM where you can literally just ask it questions by typing questions into the interface like hey, what makes this work

    here we see a tremendous amount of machine learning happening in it’s at the CRM level. So Salesforce with its Einsteins software, we see it with HubSpot and number of its packages. And all these are really about helping us make better use of our data. That is, that is the key if we’re, if we’ve got the data and we’re not using it, we’re missing a massive opportunity to be like owning an oil field and never drilling a well or yet you drilled one well with a spoon and any drinking straw,

    it’s not going to go very well.

    So those are the solutions that you’re going to see you’re going to see that built into a lot of folks now, where there are going to be gaps is that many of the point solutions that are out there, such as you know, Einstein, and Salesforce and stuff can only work with the data that they can see

    there is still a massive need for and an a gap of governance when it comes to the data that you have within your corporation. And to this I would look towards standards like ISO 38 500, which you can see a martek version of on the Trust Insights website,

    which detailed This is how your corporation is supposed to work together it and marketing and technology

    to run the system as well. And to help people work together and combine disparate systems,

    many of the obstacles within the companies are around the people in the processes less about the technology the technology has, most packages have things like APIs that allow you to connect systems together. But the bigger obstacle is in the way people work together or don’t work together within a company

    who has access to what data who’s permitted access to what data was working with my one company where the marketing department was not permitted to access the company’s own data, they had a large data platform, and for some interesting reasons, they were not allowed to, to access their own data. And so obviously, they were really hamstrung as to what they could effectively do.

    And so it’s it’s regulatory, it’s legal, it’s process internally that very often locks up the data within companies. And then that is what withholds AI and machine learning from being able to provide the kind of improvements that we all want the better ROI, the more impactful campaigns, the better marketing. So

    the big promise helping us make use of that data, but we have to get out of our own way and look for products and services and software that work well together as we go through that data lifecycle. As always, if you have questions, please leave them in the comments. You can submit them on the forum and the link below. Subscribe to the YouTube channel until the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Tasks and AI

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Tasks and AI

    Denis asks, “What existing marketing processes or tasks do you expect AI to help speed up or eliminate?”

    Some tasks will indeed be sped up. Others will be replaced entirely, and there’s a straightforward way to identify what will be replaced. Learn what tasks will and won’t be eliminated by AI. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks, What existing marketing processes or tasks Do you expect

    AI to help speed up or eliminate?

    The answer to this question is maddeningly vague, get incredibly specific. And that is this anything that is repetitive,

    artificial intelligence, machine learning, specifically with all of its categories, deep learning, reinforcement, learning, etc,

    is really good at learning repetitive processes. So

    anything that you do in marketing is a candidate for replacement by AI. If it’s a repetitive task, consider the process of, for example, scheduling social media posts, right? This is a very repetitive thing

    at Trust Insights, we use code that I wrote to help with a lot of the analysis of what content to share the creation of the files to batch upload for the foundation, the framework of social posts, this is not does not handle the interactions, the engagement with people, but it does handle the the skeleton of hey, here’s some interesting stuff without you might find useful.

    I have worked at other companies and other firms where there’s some poor person, usually the most entry level person who is copying and pasting between spreadsheets for clients or customers for their social media, which is a soul crushing job. And so that is 100% up for grabs for machines to take over. and rightfully so, it’s really not work that helps leverage the the true power of the human mind when we look at things like analytics. And reporting. Reporting is another candidate for Hey, if you done this job before, sure, have copy, copy, paste, copy, paste,

    do some basic math and some spreadsheets and things that is all stuff that are candidates for

    AI to either speed up or just eliminate entirely,

    even things that you would think of as creative.

    Alright, next, necessarily all that creative.

    Another company I was at

    the creative team was making advertisements for clients and the clients had very strict brand standards. These are the words and phrases you may use these words and phrases, you may not use these the images, you may use these the images you may not use, guess what all that meant that

    very talented,

    highly paid graphic design staff were copy, paste, copy, paste, copy, paste the same text images with some variation terms of alignment, where you put the text on the picture of the image,

    the client stuff, but at the same time, it’s like, it’s not

    really that creative.

    So your benchmarks for what AI can speed up or eliminate, or things that require no creativity, or very little creativity, things that are wrote that are mechanical in nature and things that are highly repetitive.

    In fact, things that are really, really repetitive probably should have already been automated. If it’s exactly the same thing over and over again, you don’t need AI for that that’s robotic process automation. And frankly, you don’t even need RPM, you can just write some very simple scripts or if you’re on a Mac, give us a little automate or application. And that would do the job just as well,

    where AI will benefit the acceleration of Process Automation is in dealing with some level of ambiguity. So it’s not exactly the same task each time, but it’s close. It’s it’s within a tolerances.

    For example,

    if if you’re writing an email newsletter, and the email newsletters content is 80%,

    the same general stuff, you can have code do that for you. And maybe you do the one off introduction or the the CEOs perspective, or whatever the case may be.

    But the bulk of it is still repetitive. If you are,

    if you are summarizing blog posts.

    Guess what? summarization. Text summarization is 100% automated why machine learning and in fact, is one of the best applications for it. If you were to add something I’m actually personally working on myself right now is building a summarization algorithm that can identify the most relevant pieces of text within a large piece of text and summarize it down to a sentence or two, because I want my newsletter to have more

    depth to it. But at the same time, I don’t want to read all 500 articles that I scan each week. So how can I build an algorithm to do that and accommodate for the variations in language and topic, but at the same time, still deliver value to the reader.

    So if you are summarizing documents, there is technology available on the market today that you can use

    it all comes down to repetition. One of the things I say in

    in my talks is, if you do it with a template today, a machine does it without you tomorrow. So if

    you’ve ever googled for an Instagram template of Facebook template,

    marketing, budget, template, strategy, template, marketing framework, inbound

    strategy, or inbound template, guess what all of those things are things that you can 100% automate through machine learning. Because if it’s already in a structured cans, document,

    it’s up for grabs the machines

    can do it,

    which leads to the flip side of the coin is what are the things that AI will not replace creativity, true creativity coming up with something net new out of whole cloth

    is something that machines will not be doing for quite some time.

    Anything dealing with human emotions in a tangible way.

    And in an interactive way, as opposed to an analytical way is up

    for grabs. So that means things like empathy and judgment machines are not real good at that.

    And in particular, machines are really struggling to understand sarcasm. I saw a comment the other day

    on a Facebook post, someone posted this political thing. And

    one of the common does and I know this person and I know their political orientation commented This is great.

    And they meant to exact that Tom This is great

    machine has no other context to go on. The machine doesn’t know that person is actually being sarcastic and saying this is actually terrible.

    There’s no emoji there’s no other context. And so

    there’s still that broad awareness that general intelligence human general intelligence has that machines don’t have yet so empathy judgment, that general life experience and in many ways that human human connection is still not something that we’re going to automate the exception being as something I’ve said, often

    if your customer experience is so terrible, so awful, that

    completely automated soulless response would be an improvement. And yes, that’s a candidate for replacement. But I would argue that if your customer experiences that bad, your entire company is accounted for replacement by by a competitor, with the exception being placed where there is no competition, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles,

    boy, would we all love to automate that.

    And so

    that’s what AI will speed up and eliminate, it will eliminate terrible customer service by setting a minimum bar of competencies say this is

    this was guaranteed mediocrity, you’ll have a guaranteed mediocre interaction with

    a chat bot. But if that’s better than the terrible experience, everybody’s happier

    there’s so much more to dig into. So check on the videos that we just put I just put up on strat AI strategy and things like that as well. And be sure to check out the fuse digital conference as well. Sure I’ll be speaking about this topic later this year. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Win With AI: How to Create an AI Strategy

    Win With AI: How to Create an AI Strategy

    As part of IBM’s Win With AI Summit, we’re answering some of the most common questions about AI. Today, we tackle the most fundamental: how do we create an AI strategy?

    Watch the video to learn the three-part process and what you’ll need to succeed with an AI implementation.

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    As part of the win with AI summit today, we want to talk about creating an AI strategy. How do you how do you put together a strategy for artificial intelligence? Full disclosure, I have an IBM champion and my company we’re interest insights is a registered IBM Business Partner. So any purchases you make from IBM may benefit us financially

    when it comes to AI strategy. The first and most important thing is what is the business school not? What’s the technology goal? What is the business goal you’re trying to achieve? Is it improving profits? Is it reducing workforce costs? What is the business outcome you’re after? If you don’t know that stuff, everything else and do not attempt to apply artificial intelligence to the problem. The reason for that is that AI is not a magic wand. It’s math right? It’s it’s math and statistics as

    Probability technologies and they are very good and they’re very powerful. But they are still fundamentally just math, not magic. So you need to be very clear about what your goal is what you want to achieve.

    Second, does the goal that you’re trying to achieve and be specific about it? Does it align with the core benefits of artificial intelligence? Remember, there’s three core benefits acceleration, accuracy and automation acceleration. You want results faster, if you know where you’re going, you’re know what you’re trying to do. You just want to get there faster. AI can certainly help with that. If you know where you’re going. And you know what you want to do, and you’re not happy with the quality of the work that you’re getting out of, say, lesser systems like human beings

    accuracy, again, AI is math. So accuracy is something that machines are extremely good at finding and improving upon and third automation if everything is already laid out.

    You have the processes in place, and you want them to be done by machine where and when possible. And there’s no weird gotchas or surprises or strange anomalies,

    automation is that third benefit, and you will be able to do that with artificial intelligence.

    If the business goal you’re after is one of those three, or even a combination of those three, then you know that artificial intelligence is going to be a useful road to travel towards achieving that business goal. So that’s the second layer. The third layer you need in your AI strategy is to map out

    the Rumsfeld matrix, as it called, what are your known knowns, you know, what, you know, you know,

    your data is, you know, what your anomalies are, if there are any, you know, the processes, that’s your known knowns, what are your unknown knows what don’t you know that you know, so, for example, what are the silos in your company? Where are all of the data stores have you have a complete

    audit and inventory of all of your data do you have? Do you know what your governance is? Do you know what your staffing is like? Do you have your processes and procedures and everything documented out those your unknown knowns and companies have more of these than they think unless you are a one person company, you have unknown knowns and you need to solve for them first. And that is not an AI function. That is more of a data science data architecture information architecture function. So make sure you have that in place.

    What are your known unknowns, you know, what you don’t know, you know,

    where the gaps are new data, you know what parts of your data are unclean. You know what data you don’t have, that you might need to go get externally. And again, this these are the things that you’ll need to solve more with data science, then you will have the artificial intelligence. A big part of your API strategy is converting those unknowns into knowns, you do your audit inventory, your process, your governance, and your unknown unknowns to transform those unknowns.

    knowns and unknown knowns you go out and you do data science and experimentation and exploration, exploratory data analysis and all this stuff to solve the, the, the known unknowns to learn what you don’t know that you need to know. And to transform that into known knowns. And finally, what are the gotchas? What are the really weird things? What are the unknown unknowns? You don’t know what you don’t know. And there can be a lot of these.

    There can be things like biases in your data, there can be severe flaws in your data that can be macro conditions that are impacting your data that you may not even know about. So they’re unknown unknowns. You don’t know what you don’t know.

    And this is something you have to keep an eye on throughout your AI implementation. What are those things you didn’t know that you didn’t know? But now you know, and then that transitions into known unknowns and unknown knowns and again, use information architecture or data science to solve for those

    Once you’ve got all that done, and that is a lot to do, and that what I just talked about is probably 80 to 90% of an AI implementation, fixing your data and getting it ready for training. He would then choose the tactics, the execution, the vendors, the algorithms, the methodologies,

    to solve the unknowns, and train and build training data sets on the knowns, you build your training data sets you need for things really for for the execution portion of an AI strategy. You need people which are both human beings and the knowledge and the talent that goes with them. You need to find processes for that implementation. You need a platform of some kind like IBM Watson and you need participation. You need buy in at all the levels in the company that are going to be impacted by the system

    unless you are a company that is

    is entirely staffed by people who only copy paste.

    You’re not going to be getting rid of people. In fact, probably in the early days of an AI implementation, you’re going to be adding people because you need to bring in new talent and specializations that you don’t necessarily have available. So having that participation, having that buy in from the very top all the way down to the the day to day workers is going to be essential for making an NAIA implementation work well, so

    that’s the strategy for creating a strategy goals,

    alignment with the benefits and making sure that AI is the right choice for accomplishing those goals is the best choice.

    identifying your knowns, identifying your unknowns, solving your unknowns and then rolling out in production to people to process the platform at with company wide participation or at least departmental live participation your AI implemented

    My best recommendation if you are not

    already, if you’ve not already done the foundation work is do something small, do something that is achievable, do something that is has a measurable benefit. And that is relatively straightforward to do

    do something also that’s relatively low risk. So for example,

    automating purchase order identification attacking and tracking to relieve accounting of the of the drudgery of categorizing receipts, right. image recognition is a very simple a function that artificial intelligence is very, very good at optical character recognition. And nobody loves reading receipts. Nobody loves reading and categorizing them sees this is a meal. This is a taxi. This is an Uber This is a an airplane tickets and hotel receipt, right? No one loves doing that

    automate that process with higher accuracy.

    faster results. And, and we’re moving that drudgery and you’ll see immediate benefits in a very small contained way that can then create by and for larger limitations Don’t try to automate the entire enterprise all at once it’s gonna be a miserable failure, use

    AI at a tactical level to begin to show some early wins, get some immediate results and then elevate to to bigger and bigger functions. So

    if you’re going to be in New York City, the week of September 13, which is the the week I’m recording this video, hope to see the wind with AI summit if you’re not catch the replays at IBM website. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • #WinWithAI: How To Leverage The Value of Data

    #WinWithAI_ How To Leverage The Value of Data

    Melissa asks, “How can companies leverage data — their most valuable asset — as a competitive advantage?”

    As part of the IBM #WinWithAI Summit, this is a critical question. What are the uses of data?

    • Data as the end product, for analytics and insights
    • Data as the source for training machine learning models
    • Data as a commodity to be packaged, shared, and sold
    • Data analysis as a commodity
    • Data insights as a commodity
    • Machine learning models as a commodity

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    In today’s episode, Melissa asks, How can companies leverage data and their most valuable asset as a competitive advantage? This is a really interesting question. That’s an important question. And something that we’re answering at IBM when with AI summit full disclosure, IBM does compensate me to attend these things, mostly with like shirts.

    data has sort of six major outcomes that companies should care about in terms of what the data becomes. Most companies most of the time will use use case number one, which is data as the end product for internal use at the company from that data. We do analysis to figure out what happened we use qualitative research to figure out why and then we set strategies, tactics and execution from those analytics and insights and that is

    is a great use of data that is a very smart use of data. But it is only one of six potential uses for that data. Now the second use for data within a company. The second second way we can leverage it is as a training source. So

    all machine learning all artificial intelligence requires training data requires data to help the machines build models that they can then use to predict or to understand

    new incoming data. So we need for internal use to have really, really good, clean add, categorized

    with proper proper taxonomy is data that machine learning software can use to build its model. So that’s the second year. So those are the sort of the two major internal uses of data as the end product itself or analysis or as the training data source to build models and then we

    Use those models to run our businesses. Those are the only uses. There’s also for external uses for this data that can be a competitive advantage. The first is the data itself as a commodity, to be packaged, to be shared, to be sold

    to be published online. This is the raw data. So if you go to, for example, a castle or data dot world, or data dot gov, these are places where you can actually get data sets and work with them. So you would publish them. There are obviously plenty of data sets that you have to pay money for. And so this is where it becomes a competitive advantage. And a revenue generator for a company say, Hey, here’s our, you know, anonymized clean prepared retail shoes data set as an example. And people could take that data set and then use it depending on how trustworthy it is for their own

    data efforts if they need to append or augment their own internal data with your data.

    They could do so. So if you a company has, for example, strategic partners, that data set could be an enormous asset for those partners to be able to leverage. The second external use will be data analysis as commodities, that against something you would package and sell. So not just the data itself, but your analysis of it is something that you can go and sell on in the marketplace. Your insights will be the third thing you could sell because, again, insights answer the question of why and typically require additional market research to bring the data to life.

    My colleague, Tom Webster often says data is not insight, which is absolute data is the raw material insight is the cooked dish, if you will,

    and so you need to have those insights. If you’re drawing those insights from your data Anyway, you could certainly publish those insights as something that you could sell.

    On the marketplace from my company Trust Insights, we did a women’s retail shoe study

    taking search data and turning it into guidance for markers who are in the fashion industry and say, these are the days and times of the weeks when certain types of shoe or certain brands will be most prominent in the fall.

    And the finally the last area where data can be a strategic advantage or or a valuable asset is in those machine learning models. Now, this is where you would, instead of giving someone the data and saying hey, good luck building your own model, you could actually take the pre packaged up training model that you built your own internal use and sell that or share that

    in marketplaces for sale. For example, if you’re using IBM Watson Analytics there is the analytics exchange you can actually share your models your workbooks and

    with other members of the IBM community, if you are working with things like Watson studio, you can import carrots or TensorFlow or other models, we either the code to generate the model the model itself into Watson studio. So, again, you can see how taking those models, not the data, the model built from the data and being able to share that as a strategic asset is a way to really bolster your competitive advantage or to improve the value of of data as an asset

    In the latter case in machine learning models, but even in the data itself.

    Another application if you don’t want to sell it is to open source it and then have your community contribute to it, either cleaning it and tagging it, for example, or rerunning or improving the model fixing your code even. And so all of these are ways that you could then re import those

    changes back into your production ecosystem and make better models which lead to better. And now analysis, which leads to better insights.

    All of this is contingent upon

    having clean compatible, well chosen data. Internally complete data

    is relevant.

    And so having good data is sort of the foundation of this. But once you have good data, once you’ve gone through the very, very lengthy and arduous process of creating clean data, you can then leverage it in these two internally uses and these four extra uses to bolster competitive advantage to help strategic partners in your ecosystem to make some money on it, and ultimately, to make your enterprise work better. So a great question a complex question and get thinking about who else could use this data whenever you’re working on a data set? Who else could use this data? Who else could

    benefit from this data and that will give you some insights as to what else you could do with the data to turn it into a greater advantage to turn it into a revenue source. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What’s Most Exciting About the Future of Health?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What's Most Exciting About the Future of Health_

    Funts asks, “What’s got you most excited about the future of health and AI?”

    There are three times to look at.

    • Present-day: acceleration, accuracy, and automation reduce administrative tasks so payers, providers, and patients can spend more time on what matters most
    • Near-term future: deep learning and technologies like computational chemistry, unsupervised image classification, and other machine learning help develop drugs faster and solve medical puzzles
    • Far-term future: quantum computing allows us true simulation at a molecular level of the human body, allowing for massive testing and development of cures for nearly everything

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    In today’s episode, Hans asks,

    What am I most excited about when it comes to artificial intelligence and healthcare? I’m sitting at the health further conference today about to do a talk on AI and and where healthcare is going with it. There’s a few different areas of give one answer and Instagram yesterday. But

    health care needs the three benefits of AI, which are acceleration, faster results, accuracy, better results and automation getting stuff out of the way. And when it comes to getting faster results. Certainly, obviously, the computational power of AI gets things like diagnoses done faster. The famous story of IBM Watson doing a a cancer diagnosis and a genome sequence analysis and 11 minutes is a really good example of that the accuracy

    Of course, no surprise there as technology continues to improve the accuracy of the results we get out will be better. And then the alleviation. I think this is probably one of the years where there’s there’s a tremendous amount of paperwork, both regulatory and just in general, for the running of healthcare. The business of healthcare that can definitely be automated. Everything from updating EHR as an EMR is to

    to filing and detecting insurance fraud even

    and

    if we alleviate a lot of the automation on the payer, we eliminated the automate the the paperwork on the provider, we eliminate the release of the patient paperwork and processes I think that will free up more time for for the patient to get the kind of services that they want.

    Remember that artificial intelligence is not going to replace humans, certainly not in healthcare.

    Can’t think of very many people who would eagerly submit to a machine doing all the poking and prodding rather than a human doctor without at least a human presence there to reassure them that yes, this is perfectly okay. And yes, that’s where that machine supposed to be poking.

    And so those attributes that people are, are really good at empathy, judgment, broad life experience in that human human relationship building, that’s where that’s where I would like to see healthcare invest more time by taking away the administration, the processes the paperwork, or at least significantly reducing. So that’s the very near term future of where AI will have an impact and healthcare a bit further down the road. Although obviously there’s a lot of development happening right now.

    Computational Chemistry is an area that is fascinating because what we’re doing as a society

    computational chemistry system attempting to simulate the actions of individual molecules and atoms so that we can do things like for example, drug testing to find candidates for drugs against complex conditions simulating the millions or billions or trillions of atoms and molecules inside same human body is a massive feet

    and being able to apply things like machine learning and deep learning to these problems will let us narrow down drug candidates faster will let us do much more extensive and rigorous testing

    there even ethical reasons you’d want to do this if you could avoid animal and human testing except as a as a final proof that the chemistry works you could significantly reduce the amount of testing that you need to do and that would save time, save money and reduce the the ethical concerns.

    drug testing

    some examples of this, that where we were seeing it is in spot play testing. So if you’ve ever seen a spot plate and chemistry class, it’s like a little square additions, guys a little round indentations there, and you put in all of your test materials and your, your controls. And then you put in your variations of drugs. And then you look at it go, what changed.

    And spot play testing is a time proven practice in chemistry, but it is

    it is not really a scale because a human being could not look at, for example, a spot plate the size of a football field, right? That’s just even if it was millions and millions of different combinations of of a test. There’s no way for us to realistically parse all that but a machine can a machine can use a camera or a whole bunch of cameras and gather a million images or 2 million images, you know, different frequencies of light and stuff like that and then apply on supervised learning to

    say, Okay, what have all these tests, variations? Which ones are different? How do they clustered together? And what do those tell us? What kind of information does that tell us about that particular combination of tests. There’s a tremendous opportunity there for for basic unsupervised learning to drastically improve spot play testing. But the real the real goods will be in computational chemistry, particularly once the technology matures. Once we are

    into sort of the the triple digit cubits and we can simulate molecules and atoms at a much larger scale with quantum computing, then you’re going to really see the our ability to do computational chemistry take off because right now the fastest biggest computers in the world would still struggle to accurately simulate all the crazy conditions inside the human body. And just taking one aspirin can drastically change your blood chemistry

    and our machines.

    you struggle to deal with a situation like that to accurately model what’s happening, your blood chemistry changes, minute to minute hour to hour every day,

    but a quantum machine, that can do trillions or quadrillions or quintillion of simultaneous calculations that could do it that could accurately simulate all the variances inside of a human body. And then we would be able to do things like drug testing, surgical testing, all sorts of modalities to see what actually gets the result we want and do it at massive scale and very, very quickly.

    So there’s sort of three frontiers with AI in healthcare. There is the commercially available technology that is

    in market right now, that should be being used at all levels of health care so that we can get those those core benefits acceleration, accuracy and automation. There’s the near term with deep learning in computational chemistry and other

    Their forms of diagnosis as well we’re deep learning can be used to find an extrapolate patterns and then there’s that far frontier where quantum plus machine learning plus true computational chemistry simulations

    could potentially within the next 20, 3040 years be solving are our most difficult challenges we will get to a point as it is and we’re gonna blow ourselves up

    where

    will solve most of the major medical problems

    and so then we need to have obviously a very long conversation about

    do we restrict things like birth rate when people will live for a couple hundred years but that’s that’s not for quite some time but in in the near term cures to two more cancers will certainly be up for grabs

    here. So all sorts of conditions where we are looking to to alleviate mitigate or eliminate

    Killer conditions today

    are on the table on the really the only thing that will be killing us as a as a species will be like like accidents, our own carelessness, drug overdoses and such because the the preventable diseases will have been prevented. So that’s what’s got me excited about AI and healthcare there’s tremendous opportunity the science is moving very very quickly companies are embracing the technology so as a whole I feel that we are in a really good place and moving quickly to an even better place. And I think that benefits us all

    as always great question. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • #WinWithAI: How Data Preparation Must Change for AI

    #WinWithAI: How Data Preparation Must Change for AI

    As part of my work with IBM in the Win With AI Summit, one topic I’ve been asked to address is what technologies will impact AI strategies and rollout.

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    When we look at the data science lifecycle, we see that a healthy portion of the lifecycle is spent on data preparation. Many of these tasks:

    • Refactoring & reformatting data
    • One-hot encoding
    • Normalization/denormalization
    • Scaling/centering
    • Decomposition
    • Dimension reduction/PCA
    • Feature engineering

    All these tasks are like tools in a toolbox or utensils in a drawer. Right now it takes a skilled, experienced data scientist to understand what to use. As deep learning improves and becomes more accessible through technologies like Watson Studio, we should see a reduction in the manual labor of data preparation for AI. That in turn will mean faster, better results.

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    In today’s episode as part of my work with IBM for the win with AI summit full disclosure, I’m compensated to participate in the event.

    one topic of an astral dress is what technologies will impact AI strategies and rollout. When you look at the data science lifecycle, we see that a healthy portion of today’s data science, which is

    a mandatory part of preparing data for the use of by machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, a huge part is spent on data preparation. We spend 5060, 7080, 90%

    of our time on Data Prep and what are we doing well, we’re doing things like filling in missing values are impeding messaging values are dealing with them. We are dealing with all sorts of crazy data formats that make no sense we are dealing with

    anomaly detection removal where it’s appropriate to do so we are tasked with making data relevant to each other. So this is a process called normal scaling and centering where we need to make the data fit in similar scales. And there’s a whole list of tasks, refactoring and reformatting one hot and coding where we re encode certain variables with numbers instead of text normalization or D normalization of tables, if, depending on on how we want to do our analysis decomposition where we take data and break it apart into component pieces, which is the opposite of of the normalization and in some ways dimensionality reduction principal component analysis where we’re trying to reduce the number of columns, so it’s funny decomposition adds new comms dimension reduction reduces comms,

    identification of key variables, what are the variables that are most impacted?

    Full to a data set. And all this really falls under a bucket called feature engineering. And this is this is a huge chunk of time spent by data scientists and AI engineers to make AI and machine learning work properly. It is also one of the biggest obstacles to companies rolling out artificial intelligence initiatives within the company. Because

    in a lot of cases, companies lack good governance. They lack great data or high quality data they’ve got they’ve got the data, they just don’t have it in a in a format that’s accessible and usable for machine learning. So feature engineering, data cleansing, cleansing, data preparation, all this is stuff that

    we spend a tremendous amount of time and very, very expensive time on right now. Now these tasks are all tools in the toolbox.

    Or utensils in a drawer, like a tool like a utensil right now you need a skilled experienced data scientist, someone who’s got the ability to work with the data to to correctly use and choose the tools. So not every dataset needs for example one hot and coding. Not every dataset needs principal component analysis

    right now we need that human to apply that judgment and then go go do the thing. Go go execute on the activity. Again, with data scientists costing anywhere from three to five to 700,000 a year. That gets super expensive, right? That’s a data scientist who you’re paying 300,700,000

    a year to that’s their you know, their their hourly bill rate effectively is 350 an hour had350 an hour to have someone sort of copying and pasting and tuning stuff up is a waste of money.

    So when you look at the benefits of AI of artificial intelligence, acceleration, accuracy and automation, all three of these things are things that can be at should be and are being applied to data preparation. So through deep learning technologies, we have seen the last couple of years a tremendous effort towards automated feature engineering where with with

    strong deep learning technologies, machines can pre engineered the data set and then hand it off to a human for final inspection and sampling

    that is still

    in many ways not accessible to the business user. And it is even not accessible to

    the average data scientist who is not working specifically with machine learning technologies that’s changing and where we will see new technologies impacting artificial intelligence in the coming

    Here is with these features becoming much more available and much more accessible to Don hardcore machine learning specialists. So, a really good example of this, of course, is IBM Watson studio where

    even if you’re using Charisse and TensorFlow and you’re, you’re trying out auto Charisse and things like that you’re still slinging code, one of the benefits of a service like Watson studio is it, it takes the same system and puts it into a drag and drop interface. So now, instead of needing to, to write the code to do to set up the, the deep learning framework, you know, drag and drop the pieces together. So, as long as you understand the architecture and you understand the outcome of what you want, it’s a lot faster to get up and running. Things like that will improve will continue to improve. It will continue to be enhanced with technologies like auto Charisse,

    so that

    our preparation

    process and our preparation time will diminish. So we get to our answers faster, we will get better answers. Because obviously, if you’re if you’re relying on a human to mix and match the tools, there’s no guarantee that, you know, the human will have a bad day. This morning, it took me five minutes to remember the term feature engineering. I kept getting stuck with that with with factoring.

    And so removing the humans from those processes will make the processes faster and more reliable and will free up those humans to do things just like you know, make extra large cups of coffee as they watch the machines work.

    So

    in terms of what we should be looking for in the next year within AI technology, specifically around data. We want to keep our eyes very carefully on automated feature engineering automated data preparation

    because that’s where that’s where the biggest bang for the buck is. Reduce the time to start modeling reduce the time to start creating.

    outcomes now puts

    while still making sure that we have interpret ability of our data and interpret ability of our models. And and again services like Watson studio will help enormously with that new technologies like AutoCAD will help enormously with that. And that will eventually let these tools be available to people like you and me, where we are not necessarily PhDs. We are not necessarily multiple PhD holders where folks trying to get something done so it there is the technology is moving really, really fast right now.

    Every day there are new innovations every day there are new improvements and every so often there are really big breakthroughs that that just turn up the dial on on how fast we can get access to these technologies. So there’s a lot to look forward to in the next year. And it would not surprise me if within a couple of years there are

    business user friendly drag and drop interfaces for data preparation where you don’t even need a data science degree or certification, you’re just your average middle manager, you drag and drop a few things. And then out the other end spits a data set ready for modeling. And you hand that off to your your data team to to make stuff work, but it contains the data that you want as a business user. So I hope to see you at the win with AI summit in New York City and September 13, and if you’re going to be there, you can tune in online as well. But there’s a link in the notes to register and I will talk to you soon. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter. Talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Success for Finance Professionals in an AI World

    You Ask, I Answer: Success for Finance Professionals in an AI World

    Ashley asks, “Assuming everyone adopts AI what will separate finance professionals that are the most successful from everyone else? What will they do differently?”

    We review the core promises of AI, what AI is and isn’t good at, and what AI is bad at today with a focus on finance professionals. This is how to plan your career in the immediate and medium-term future.

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    In today’s episode,

    Ashley asks, assuming everyone adopts AI, what will separate financial professionals, finance professionals, the most successful from everyone else? What will they do differently? This is a really good, very interesting question. And it goes back to two things. Number one, understanding what the core benefits of artificial intelligence are. And number two, understanding what artificial intelligence is and is not good at so let’s bring up the first thing here. What is AI good at artificial intelligence delivers three promises, number one, acceleration, get to the answer faster. Number two accuracy, develop better answers than humans can develop. And, number three automation alleviating us from doing repetitive tasks stuff that it’s just not a good use for our time, our intellect, that’s what AI is really good at. And what the problem is, is, and companies will transform these promises into higher profits, more productivity, without adding headcount, freeing up workers time to do more valuable work, more interesting work. I mean, nobody wants to be the copy paste version. And these are all things that artificial intelligence using machine learning, supervised unsupervised reinforcement, deep learning wide learning, whatever you want to pursue all these forms of machine learning deliver on these promises. Now, here’s where things get interesting. Artificial Intelligence is really good at taking a data set that we know and that we may not know the answers and, but we know it, it’s good quality, we are aware of it, and we can transform it into stuff. It’s we start with good raw materials and end up with a good result. This is in the in the Rumsfeld matrix, the known knowns, the unknown knowns, we the data is good, we don’t know about it. Artificial Intelligence is as good for that. That’s still as much more traditional data science right now exploring this data that is good, but we don’t even know it so that it exists. So figuring out what’s out there, what can we bring together, what can we sequence and you can use machine learning techniques on a tactical level, to help speed up those processes to explore the unknown knowns. But at the same time, it’s very difficult to to automate that process beginning to end equally true, it’s difficult to work with the known unknowns, we know that the data exists, but it may not be in great condition. It may not be prepared or structured for use by artificial intelligence systems. Remember that artificial intelligence requires a great deal of information of data. And that data has to be in good condition, the training data and the testing data has to be in good condition in order for AI to build a model successfully on it. If it’s not, then you’ve got a real problem. Again, you’ve got more of a data science problem there. Whereas you have this data, it’s known, but the quality, the content, the stuff inside is still an unknown. That’s where, again, you’re going to need more data science, and you will machine learning and artificial intelligence. And then the final quadrant in the Rumsfeld matrix is the unknown unknowns, we don’t know and we’re don’t know even know what if there’s data for or what condition the data and that’s where humans still will play a key role in the process of business, these unknown unknowns, things we can’t see inside the the data is even get answers. So what are some of those unknown unknowns that you still need humans for that in finance, in capital markets, in lending and all these things? What are those? Well, they really center around four key areas don’t they, they it is empathy, judgment, general life experience, and relationships. machines don’t empathy, we can simulate aspects of it, particularly with natural language processing. But we can’t do the actual process of being empathetic. We’re even sympathetic with machines, that is something that is still people need to do. So if you are a banker or lending officer or a stockbroker, you can probably have some level of empathy with the person that you’re working with you with your customer with a client, that machine will never be able to do, unless you’re a jerk, in which case CS we can get a chat bot to be less of a jerk to the customer. But we’re assuming that these finance professionals that actually is referring to are actually good at their jobs.

    The second is judgment, human judgment is very difficult for machines to put together because judgment comes from such a wide set of inputs, that it’s very difficult to capture that right now, we don’t have general purpose wide AI, we’re very narrow AI. And so being able to say, yeah, look, the numbers also a, that you are a credit risk, but I just kind of feeling that that that it’ll be okay. Right, something like that. That’s human judgment. And there is a lot of emotion in that, again, machines and emotions, not their strong point, general life experiences. The third thing where, again, finance professionals, particularly people who have a little more gray hair can really go ahead and and bring their life experience. Remember that a lot of AI comes from training data, right comes from training data sets, and you can capture a tremendous amount of it. But it’s very difficult to capture tremendous amounts of it over massive periods of time, and still have it makes sense because the models would have to change over time. So someone who lived through the stock market crash of 87 remembers that the conditions for that market crash were very different than say, the the Great Recession 2007 2008

    when, when all sorts of lending just collapsed in on itself, very different set of experiences, very different period of time, very different data, very different system inputs. But human behavior, very consistent machines have a much harder time modeling that then people who lived through these different financial crises can remember and work with. So general life experiences, that really important third bucket. And finally, the fourth bucket where, again, finance professionals who want to continue to succeed must be heavily invested in human relationships. Yes, you can, and should automate the process of remembering when your clients birthdays are, for example, but

    it would be very difficult to remember. Oh,

    Dinesh, his kids love Pokemon. And so we’ll get him I’m gonna send a cupcake with a peek at you on it.

    It’s those little touches, it’s those human relationships. It’s that being willing to go out and have a beer with somebody, or have a cup of coffee over breakfast, or lunch, or whatever, with somebody that again, machines would really struggle to do machines will augment us machines will give us the data that we need, you know, as we’re walking into that coffee, we open up our device, we go Oh, yeah, that’s right. All these things, the machines can remind us of the data. But then we have to be the ones who bring that data to life through our relationships to be able to to to remember that Dinesh as kids birthday or that for the stocks he was talking about last month, man not so good. Or man, his you know that that small business loan, there’s been a change in regulation. Yeah, I gotta remember to talk to him about that, because something’s changed. So those are the other aspects of relationships that again, very difficult to automate. Because relationships by nature are very wide, they cover an enormous amount of ground and AI is very narrowly focused on solving problems. So

    if a finance professional wants to be as successful as possible, you need AI to augment your capabilities, you need that data processing, you need that acceleration, that accuracy that all automation but you also need to double down on empathy, judgment, life experience, and most critically those human to human relationships. Without that,

    yeah, you absolutely can be replaced by machine if you were just doing very narrow tasks day in and day out, guess what machines are real good at narrow and if you are not that at the top of your game machine will absolutely take your job. If, on the other hand, you’re focusing on the people machines aren’t people so great question, challenging question as always, but it has a lot to unpack and there’s a lot of hope for people to be able to continue to have rich, vibrant, very successful careers as long as they focus on what human beings are good at and let the machines be the best at what they are

    best at. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tackling Data Privacy and Regulation

    You Ask, I Answer_ Tackling Data Privacy, and Regulation

    Melissa asks, as part of the IBM #WinWithAI Summit: “How can enterprises be proactive about data privacy and regulation?”

    Want to know why we’re having conversations about data privacy and regulation? It’s because marketing has no governance. It’s the Wild West, with CMOs buying every technology available and no one conducting the orchestra. Marketers need to adopt proven IT standards of governance.

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    In today’s episode, Melissa asks, as part of the win with AI summit, the IBM summit that I’m attending in New York in September, have a link in the show notes. Full disclosure, IBM is compensating me to attend. She asks, How can enterprises be proactive about privacy and regulation, data privacy and regulation? Well,

    why are we asking this question? We’re asking this question, especially within a marketing context, because marketing is the Wild West, right? marketing technology right now is the Wild West has no governance, no oversight, the CMO is buying all sorts crazy stuff, then the the VP of Marketing goes and buy some stuff in the marketing director goes and buys them stuff. And you have all these different technologies. And there’s no regulation, there’s no internal regulation of what’s happening with the deployment of technology. Even though since 2016, the CMO has spent more on it technology, the CIO yet

    this nobody’s nobody’s conducting the orchestra. So

    what should enterprises be doing? Well, here’s the thing, it figured out a really long time ago that governance is important, even if it is onerous, even if it is not fun. Even if it is it slows down business operations. But because it for decades has been perceived, primarily as a cost center, a lot of the governance around it is designed to make it as efficient as possible to make it compliant as possible with regulations and to help the enterprise grow appropriately within the bounds of regulatory requirements. So what marketers should be doing what anybody who’s working with data should be doing is a hearing to one of the many, many different standards that are available for data privacy,

    and for governance of our he overall. And this is for marketers, not for the IT people, marketers need to adopt the same open standards that it people have. The one that I think is the best fit is the ISO 38 500

    framework, I saw 38 500

    dash 2015, and we actually bring this up here. This is

    this framework is designed to help companies be compliant. And if you want a copy of this as a PDF, I’ll put a link in the show notes. It’s available on Trust Insights calm, but the ISO 38 500 framework, but governance of it for the organization covers six functional areas. Six, six concept, responsibility, strategy, acquisition, performance, conformance, and humanity. And each of these areas has rules, has guidelines, has things set out to help a company manage those areas? So under responsibility, this is corporate responsibility. This is business strategy, what is the business going to do? What are the businesses goals, what outcomes are we are we do we care about as a business, that’s the first part. And if that’s not defined, then of course, your your marketing technology is going to be a zoo, and your AI is going to be a zoo. Second is marketing technology strategy or AI strategy, if you will, the infrastructure, the architecture that the the the reason you’re doing stuff, the processes by which you select technologies to buy again, if it’s the Wild West and organization, you don’t have marketing technology strategy, you don’t have somebody saying, This is what we do. This is not what we do, we need tools in this category. We don’t need tools in this category. The tools that we do need have to fit certain requirements. The third is the acquisition. This is the balance sheet. And this is so important, because this is something that companies don’t do in marketing, which is what value does marketing bring? What costs to the marketing? What are the the cost of all the software services, which are typically operating expenses, not capital expenses? What is the capital? What hardware and things what assets Do you have, and especially in marketing technology, and, and really in AI, and data science? What is the value of the IP you’re creating? Remember that one the most important things about artificial intelligence is that you’re creating models, those models have intrinsic economic value, as long as they’re functioning correctly. That is something that has to be accounted for and has a real dollar value. And if you don’t have a balance sheet for your marketing technology and your AI, you are not going to be able to account for the full value of what it is you’re creating. Remember, data isn’t asset models are an asset. The fourth bucket is operations, what do you do? How do you how do you manage your marketing technology, especially security? So going back to the question of data privacy and regulation, how will you managing the security of your marketing technology, most marketers no fence are not active, exactly it wizards to begin with. And so there is a substantial risk of people doing things like leaving PII, personally identifiable information. unencrypted in tables, for example, that’s just a terrible practice buying technologies without vetting them for their compliance to to known standards like ISO 2701 or six sigma, being able to say I guess this this is a a lean and efficient operation operational tool or vendor or things like that. The fifth bucket is risk and compliance This is governance conformance risk management audit, you get to go through things like socks and Kobe and DSS in order to determine that you are complying with regulations. This is the part that everybody hates in governance, but is this is the insurance policy that covers your butt in case something goes wrong, if something goes wrong, you can say, we adhere to all these different compliance standards, all these different security standards, stuff happens. But if you made all reasonable efforts to comply with security regulations with best practices, then you can say, Yes, we made, you know, our best good faith efforts, we’ve complying with everything we possibly can, and things still went sideways, because that happens in life. But if you don’t have that paper trail, you are at significant risk as a marketer, as a marketer, with marketing technology. And the sixth area is change management. This is how do you get people to do more, to be more to be more capable, and to be able to accomplish more with the stuff that you’re giving them. So you’re buying all these marketing technology tools, you’re buying all the AI tools and software and vendors is making a difference and will not have the people don’t use it, not if you don’t have processes in place to, to help people to use it. And so that’s these these six areas. This is how you, you become proactive about data privacy and regulation. You measure on things like business metrics, balanced scorecard, Zach man framework, PCI DSS, Six Sigma capability, Maturity Model, all these different metrics that it again had, it has been working with this stuff for decades. And so if we can bring it into marketing into the CMOS office, into the CMT owes office, if you have one of those people in your organization, this will help you become a better run organization, a better run marketing organization and to use your marketing technology in a more compliant, more intelligent way. If you don’t have this or some other governance framework in place. That is how you become proactive at data privacy. That’s how you become proactive about regulation, you adopt an open standards, and then when things do go sideways, you can say, Yes, we are working we’re at we’re working towards compliance and all these different areas, this areas where you know, something went wrong. And so we’re going to double down on fixing, for example, our adherence to PCI. Okay, that’s something that you can point to, and an auditor and a lawyer and all the people who are involved in things like lawsuits could say, Okay, got it. Or if you’re still struggling, for example, with the implementation or the management of GDPR, even though the date for the deadline of enforcement has passed, there are still a ton of companies who are not in compliance and a working towards compliance was reading through earnings calls recently. And everyone’s saying, Oh, yeah, we’re now just starting to understand the effects of GDPR. Cool. Where was that in your mark tech strategy and your business strategy? How did that impact your balance sheet? How did that impact your operations, everyone focused on the risk and compliance which is appropriate. But now we have to look at the other five areas of this ISO 3500 framework to see the impact of a regulation like GDPR on the business. So great question, complex question. And you’re going to need help doing this, you probably going to need to hire a consulting firm of some kind. If your enterprises big enough, you want to look at something like IBM. IBM has a whole bunch of teams that can do stuff like this, that they’ll send thousands of consultants and you know, eat all your cafeteria food, whatever, but it’s how you can reach those states of compliance. But this is what you need to do. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Sneak Peek: How AI Helps Sales Professionals

    Sneak Peek_ How AI Helps Sales Professionals

    According to Gartner, 30% of all B2B companies will employ AI to augment at least one of their primary sales processes by 2020. Don’t wait for the future – start implementing now, with today’s technologies.

    Driver Analysis

    • Prospect and lead qualification
    • Better sales analytics

    Time-Series Forecasting

    • Sales enablement
    • Sales forecasting
    • Revenue forecasting

    Text Mining/Natural Language Processing

    • Voice of the customer
    • Competitive analysis
    • Better sales enablement materials
    • Better sales pitches

    Natural Language Interaction

    • First touch scaling
    • Sales CRM interaction, especially data capture

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    Today we’re gonna give you a sneak peek into one of the talks I’m doing on how artificial intelligence is helping improve sales, helping sales the department be more productive. According to Gartner, 30% of all companies will be using AI to enable or augment one of their sales processes. One of the primary sales process is by 2020. I say this if you are waiting until 2020 to implement AI anywhere within the sales value chain. You’re missing the boat because companies are implementing this now sales CRM vendors are implementing this right now. It is it is the middle of August 2018 as I record this particular video and one of the CRM vendors HubSpot, just rolled out chat bots for everybody can just install it and run it

    and so there is tremendous opportunity for salespeople.

    Take advantage of these technologies, especially since as vendors incorporate them into their products do you have to, like have a programmer or a developer or a data scientist on staff to make use of at least some of them. So let’s take a look at what’s available today from a technology basis and and see how this will impact your sales processes. And that’s something you can use to start thinking about, well, what vendors should we be using for our CRM or sales enablement or marketing automation and so on and so forth. The four categories I want to touch on today, our driver analysis, time series, forecasting, natural language processing, and natural language interaction. Let’s dig through each of these in terms of what it means for sales. What will sales get out of it? Driver analysis is a type of statistics where you take very large sets of data with with it’s called high dimensional data, and you try to figure out what are the most valuable important variables within that data set. So imagine you’re prospecting and you’ve got all this information about your prospects you’ve got

    dates and times, and interactions and touches, and company firma graphics and demographics and you’ve got behaviors, and you’ve got preferences and movies, tastes, and likes of music and stuff on Facebook, and you have all this data, what actually predicts whether someone is a good lead dimensional analysis, dimensional reduction and driver analysis will help you distill down by saying, we know from past data, these are the good leads, and these are the not so good leads, okay, what to all the good leads have in common, adding in a mathematical way, boiling all that down to statistics and say, Okay, this is the good lead has these probabilities of these variables. That’s one of the things that you should see an immediate benefit for when you’re using AI,

    some type of what’s called supervised learning. You’ll also get better sales analytics because just as prospects and leads have all these different characteristics, so do your sales process.

    is easier you think about the sales pipeline, you have your prospect, you have leads, you have opportunities, you have pitches and proposals and deals. Think about the inner workings of a sale CRM. That’s all data that you’re collecting. Probably not using to the the greatest effect. So as AI gets incorporated into more and more CRM products, we should be seeing better and better sales analytics because it should be distilling down and saying, Yeah, you’re collecting all this data. But these are really the variables that you need to pay attention to that tell you whether a deal is going to close or not. The second category is what I call time series, forecasting, being able to forecast out what’s happening. So there’s three things that you’ll see here one of the sales enablement, helping you predict when people are going to be searching for the thing that you do, whether it’s make widgets, or sell coffee, or whatever the case may be. And then being able to say, okay, that we know that you know, this is when sales people need to amp up their dialing efforts. They need to be scheduling more appointments. They need to be doing all these things because

    These periods of time that matter the most second, of course it any type of Science Time Series forecasting is naturally going to have sales forecasting what based on all of your sales data when are you likely to make what kinds of sales you’re likely to make in the next 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, and so on and so forth. And of course if you got sales data then you also have things like revenue data so being able to forecast for sales people what are the Commission’s that are likely to happen in the next quarter based on on historical data and current trends you use artificial intelligence and and these predictive algorithms to predict ahead, here’s what’s likely to happen from the top to the middle to the bottom of the funnel. The third category is natural language processing, also sometimes known as text mining. And this is where you’re going to see a lot of incredible leaps and bounds for sales enablement. We’re going to talking about things like the voice of the customer, what is the customer say if you haven’t mind your CRM for to understand what your customers asking about the most.

    You’re missing an opportunity. And you’ve already got the data.

    We also have competitive analysis, if you were to take all the information that’s available about your key competitors on on the internet, so chats and forums and reviews and, and social media and boil that down. What do people say about your competitors? And then contrast that to what people say about you? Where’s the gap? Is there a gap between what people like about you and what people like about your competitor? Or Wouldn’t that be handy to know when you’re going into a big pitch

    we would expect to see from natural language processing, then better sales enablement materials, once you understand what people are saying, you can tune your sales enablement materials, you can generate content on the fly even

    social media posts as a very simple example like hey, this is a trending topic right now in our industry. We should probably have some content about this and forth you would expect the natural language processing to deliver a better sales pitches. Here’s your

    Going to improve your pitching based on on the understanding you have of the industry, the competitors, your company and the voice of the customer. So expect those benefits. The last category is natural language interaction. And this is where we’re, we’re seeing stuff in market right now about scaling. First touch with things like chat bots and messenger programs, being able to interact with customers and provide them helpful information answers to their questions. 24 seven whenever the customer wants, as long as they don’t mind that first interaction being with a robot being with a machine that is a tremendous sales benefit. Because now you are open 24 seven and someone can respond to initial customer inquiries anytime, anywhere on you know, on any device because the chat bots will do that. For us. What is a tremendous benefit. The second thing is sales CRM interaction.

    sales people are not great about putting their data into CRM is not

    University some people are great about it, some people not so much. But in order for us to be to improve our sales, we need to be capturing all that information we need to be capturing and transcribing call logs. If we have voice interactions with customers, we need to be capturing meetings we need to be capturing

    phone chats and and and emails and I am this and and centralizing all that data so that we can then use those other technologies to analyze it. Sales CRM interaction is one of the areas where natural language interaction is going to make a huge difference because we’ll just simply have our phones or whatever our systems talking to a eyes and having the eyes transcribe what we say and loaded right right into the CRM you can already get great transcription technology for super super cheap so if you’ve got a voice call or you have a meaning and you’ve got and and obviously it depending on the laws of your area, make sure you have permission to do so. But you can take the the audio recordings and stuff it into an AI and have it spit back text that you can then do

    Large scale analysis on for one salesperson this might or might not be useful. But if you’re a sales manager, you got 510, 20, 5100

    sales reps, you kind of want to know what people are saying, You’re especially want to hear what the customer is saying. And you can’t listen to all hundred people this meal making 100 calls a day, you just can’t do that. But with this transcription process through AI, and then the analysis of the text, the text, the text mining, you could you could at least get a sense of what’s being said. So

    that was a lot in about nine minutes, driver analysis time series forecasting, natural language processing and natural language interaction of the four technologies that are available today. This is not waiting for the future to happen. This these are technologies that are available today. They are already being baked into some CRM software today. Make sure that your sales organization has a plan to use the technologies in each of these areas to boost

    Your sales to boost your sales people’s capabilities and to reduce the amount of boring crap that nobody wants to do and to help them spend their time selling more. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel to the newsletter and thanks for watching. Take care

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