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  • #FridayFeeling: The Value of Best Practices

    Friday Feeling: The Value of Best Practices

    What’s the value of best practices? Some people live and breathe them; other people roundly criticize them. What’s the story?

    Best practices are competence in a box. They help us to quickly get up to speed on documented, reviewed, and approved ways of doing things. When you’re first starting out in anything, this is a godsend, to become good at your job quickly. For organizations where everyone isn’t performing optimally, best practices are a necessity.

    Over time, as you move from beginner to practitioner to advanced practitioner, best practices can potentially stifle innovation. By definition, you are not trying anything new if it’s already written down in a best practice. That’s when it’s time to explore, experiment, and innovate – and then codify your learnings into new, updated best practices.

    Learn how lessons from the martial arts apply to corporate best practices in the video.

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    In today’s Friday feeling some thoughts about best practices what’s the value of best practices some people live and breathe them other people roundly criticized him a crap all

    over them say that the worst thing for a company’s what’s the story

    best practices

    if you think about best practices or competence in a box right they are they are co defied ways proven methods for accomplishing a result or for

    doing a process in a repeatable verifiable way they help us get up to speed quickly on documented reviewed approved ways of doing things

    and if you think about just how how wild west a lot of stuff is inside of companies

    that’s not a bad thing especially if you’re new I was at a client recently as a new person at the table and they’re saying they’re just getting up to speed and and that’s someone who really needs that those best practices here’s the book of how to do your job how to get good at your job quickly follow the recipe and and you’ll be able to bake the cake as it were if you have an organization where everyone isn’t performing optimally where everything was in firing on all cylinders again best practices

    are

    a necessity to get everybody sometimes on the literal same page. This is how we do the thing

    in the martial arts when you’re first starting out. You know you learn how to punch and you learn how to to block and avoid and get out

    of all sorts of grabs and stuff.

    There’s defined written down practice ways of things that most of the time work for most of the people and those would be the best practices in the martial arts we would call them kata, pre arranged forms and there to help you learn the muscle memory help you learn the basic good habits you’re supposed to have. And the best practices are no different in the business. They are the business version of a kata you learn the basic good habits that you’re supposed to have.

    Now here’s where

    we can look to the martial arts for understanding where best practices are not helpful

    as you move from beginner to practitioner to advanced practitioner and then eventually depending on whether you want to not even become a teacher

    best practices can stifle innovation, because at a certain point in the martial arts, you the product is the Japanese term is a shoe hottie. You learn the form, you master the form you very area before we make variations, you learn all the variations and the possibilities of that form. And eventually leave the form behind you’ve, you’ve learned it so well that it’s become a part of you is unconscious. And you don’t need to think you know, left hand right hand left block, right punch, you just do it because you’ve done it so much. It’s like, it’s like walking right

    in the beginning of your watch a baby though, kind of very tentative, and like you have to

    literally remind them left foot now, right foot, left foot, yep. And, and, you know, try and keep your head up, don’t fall over. By the time you’re, you know, five years old or 10 years old, 15 years old. Walking is an unconscious thing, you just do it, you follow the best practices of walking for one foot in front of the other

    in companies. Best practices are essential

    for people who are new in their

    job, or for getting people to adhere to a specific way

    of doing things. This is the way we do it.

    But

    if innovation is important to your company, if new products, new services, new ideas, new ways of doing things are important your company and there’s that it should be part of your company’s DNA, then best practices eventually become inhibitory.

    By definition, if you’re not trying anything new short is you’re already It’s already in the manual, right? If it’s already written down, you are not going to create something new, you’re repeating what’s already been done. And that’s inhibitory, to be able to explore, to experiment to innovate. And then codify your learnings into new and updated best practices.

    How do you know when you’re there, you’re there when everyone can do the basics.

    So again, to the martial arts, you can’t teach someone

    who’s a white belt, the most advanced spear fighting technique that’s just going to go badly for everybody,

    you absolutely can teach somebody that once they put in their 20 years, and they’ve gotten all the basics down, and they can do the basics. And it’s, it’s, it’s automatic, it’s, it’s baked into their their brains, and they’ve learned the variations of the basics and they can do all those, then it’s time for them to to leave those basics behind not to stop doing them but because they don’t need to focus on you know, left hand right hand in accompany

    you look for the person who has gotten good at their job, they’re producing output, they’re doing what they’re supposed to do, and they start talking about things like where can I get some more training? Where can I get some more professional development? Where can I get what can I learn a new thing, can I go to a conference and stuff you see if you have that curiosity, combined with the competence that’s when you say, Okay, this person needs variations of best practices, or this person may even be able to start leaving best practices behind in the sense of, Okay, now you’re going to start innovating now, you’re going to start creating new stuff, net new things,

    it’s difficult, it is difficult, because if your skills as a manager

    or an executive are to optimize and tune what is already there, which, by the way, is an extremely important skill,

    then managing innovation is very different. Because you by definition, are managing things that are not fully baked, that are not

    clean that are not codified in machine learning, and, and everything that’s happening in advanced marketing technology. Today, every day is a new day, every day, there’s something new every day, there’s something different and it can be very challenging to manage that, like, Oh, hey, look at this thing that was using yesterday no longer works the same way. It’s completely different. It’s like when you open your phone, and you know, all your apps update. And like,

    I don’t even know how to use the camera on my phone. I knew that’s really different.

    And so

    the goal is for us, as managers, as leaders, as executives to

    have a center of innovation, have best practices and use the center of innovation, to test best practices, to refine them to optimize them, or maybe even to throw old ones away that no longer generate the results we want, and build new ones. Test, experiment, innovate, explore, and then write down what we’ve learned and turn those into the new best practices.

    Best practices like anything are

    not applicable to everyone all the time. But they do work for most people most of the time, and so

    let’s avoid criticizing them until we make sure that we ourselves and our companies have mastered the basics.

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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

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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.

    Register for the IBM Win With AI Summit in NYC here.

    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

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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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  • #WinWithAI: The Foundation of AI is Great Data

    #WinWithAI_ The Foundation of AI is Great Data

    In today’s episode, we review the 4 main challenges facing enterprises with data:

    • Volume
    • Veracity
    • Variety
    • Velocity

    AI is built on data; poor data leads to poor machine models, which leads to poor outcomes. What’s the solution? The Trust Insights 6C Framework for Data is what every company must implement to prepare for AI:

    • Clean
    • Complete
    • Comprehensive
    • Chosen
    • Credible
    • Calculable

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    In today’s episode as part of the wind with AI series that I’m doing with IBM for the win with AI summit disclosure, I am paid compensated for participation. And today’s question is how can businesses use data today to develop a winning strategy for AI over the next five years? Well,

    no one has any has a Foggiest clue what AI is going to look like in five years? Anyone who says they do is probably smoking the good stuff. Now you can say what’s been developed today and how will it be deployed over the next five years? Because that’s a valid question today. All these techniques in deep learning and reinforcement learning and things like Watson studio, for example. These are technologies that are available in market now and it is going to take companies one to 510 years to deploy them in market.

    But where the technology is going, nobody has any idea. So let’s tackle this from the perspective of what do companies need to do with their data today, in order to be able to make use of these technologies and eventually roll this out over the next five years.

    Data is the foundation of AI. Unlike traditional software, ai begins with data. So in traditional software, we write the code, you know, it’s a word processor, or whatever, we have the application on that phone or on our laptop, and, and and the software is made. And then we use the software and it spits out data, right? You have a word processing software, you type a letter and and the data is what comes out of it or the spreadsheet or the slide presentation or the video that’s the data software begets data in traditional software in AI data begets the software so we take data, a lot of it enormous quantities of it, and we give it to machines and they learn from it and then create

    Create models and outcomes. And so that’s what’s so different about AI is that instead of explicitly writing the code for a prediction or whatever the software learns from the data, we feed it, which means that the data we give machines has to be impeccable. It has to be unimpeachable or as close to as we can get now, there are four main problems with data today. IBM calls these the four V’s the veracity, volume, velocity and variety veracity is the truthfulness of the data. how clean is the data if the data is has questionable issues or is missing pieces, you’re not gonna be able to make good predictions. You’re not gonna be able to train machines on volume is a problem that most companies have. They have too much data and the velocity the speed at which the data arrives every day is also another problem. And finally, the variety of data with unstructured data, video images, audio lots of texts.

    Speech applications, IoT, you name it, all these different things are creating a variety of problem. So how do we solve for these problems? We use what at Trust Insights we call the six see framework of useful data. Data needs six characteristics in order to be useful, especially for machine learning and artificial intelligence. And those are the data I vaults bring up the framework here. There you go.

    data needs to be clean. So it has to be prepared well, and free of errors. And you can use machine learning to solve some of that. But there are limits after which you start running at the validity error. So yeah, the data should be as clean as possible to start with. So if a company does not have clean data, now be the time to start that the data has to be complete without missing chunks.

    Again, there are ways to solve for missing data with machine learning, particularly with a technique called amputation, but it’s not as good as having the actual data so

    You’ve got missing chunks of data you have you’re gonna have a trouble working with AI data has to be comprehensive, meaning it must cover the questions being asked of it. So if our data if we want to know what is what causes particular type of cancer, for example, and we don’t have all the oncology data, we only have an hour subset. We don’t have like blood tests, we lack other environmental variables, we’re not going to come up with the right answer, we’re going to come up with at best a partial answer, and at worst, a very misleading answer. So data has to be comprehensive data has to be chosen well with few irrelevant or confusing variables. And so this is a lot of selection. And this is where a data scientist spend a good chunk of their time. And these first these six steps take up a data scientist Tyler 80% of their time just to just to get the data in working condition. Choosing variables requires things like principal component analysis and

    reduction of dimensions dimension.

    ality reduction in order to figure out okay out of the 400 variables we have which ones actually matter

    and data has to be credible which means it must be collected in a valid way

    this is an area where machine learning is not much help because this deals with things like biases in our data how biased is our data you may be using machine learning to do a natural language processing on social media data, let’s say on tweets.

    But if you don’t understand that Twitter itself is a has a bias in the network that there are demographics at play that there are socio economic factors at play that give a very specific

    weight towards certain opinions.

    You don’t know that unless you have experience with understanding bias. And so this is a critical part of artificial intelligence and and companies working with data. You’ve got to know that your data is credible. You’ve got to know how it was collected. You’ve got to know the bias.

    seas of the collection process. Imagine at a corporation, you send out a survey to customers and say, you know, how awesome was your scores or customer service? Well, that question by very definition is leading he’s a leading question instead of asking how was your customer service, right? So the credibility of collection is one of those important factors in building good data, especially for AI. And finally, date of all did has to be calculable. This is less of a problem for AI than it is for humans. Humans are really bad at dealing with massive data sets, machines are much better at it. But a machine still has to be able to work with the data, it still has to be compatible in a, you know, whatever formats are needed. So you may have a bunch of structured data and then a whole bunch of unstructured data. You’ve got to be able to have machine learning processes that that transform the unstructured data into something structured in order to be able to do things like prediction. So this framework

    Work, the 60 framework is the foundation for what companies need to do to prepare for AI. If you don’t have data that are has been through this process, and you’ve addressed all six of these issues, all six of these features, then your AI efforts at best, you’re going to be limited and at worst are going to be highly misleading. So we need to fix this first within your company. Now, if you’d also so this is the data portion data comes from people process and platform, they all the good. The good old Lovett framework

    if you don’t have people who are committed to a great data, if you don’t have processes that enable the 60s and you don’t have technology that allows you to to store it, transform it, work with it, then AI is just not for you a special especially the people hard if you have people who are committed to opposing the use of data AI is definitely not going to work for you and if you think about it

    Who might that be? Well, there are folks who work at some companies who don’t really want to light shine on their work, because their work may not be very good, or their work may have ethical issues and things like that. So navigating great data and setting the stage for AI requires more than just technology requires great, a great platform. And obviously the Watson studio ecosystem is a great platform for that. But it also requires great processes internally, and a commitment from the people who work at the company to the AI initiatives. So that’s the very long answer to the question. It’s a great question about how to prepare for AI what we need to do with our data. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • #WinWithAI: The Journey to AI

    #WinWithAI_ The Journey to AI

    As part of the upcoming IBM Win with AI Summit, I’m tackling some questions about how companies can make AI work for them. In today’s episode, we look at the journey to AI using the Trust Insights Enterprise AI Journey Framework:

    Trust Insights Corporate AI Journey Framework

    • Data foundation
    • Measurement & analytics
    • Insights & research
    • Process automation
    • Data science
    • Machine learning
    • Fully deployed-AI

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    In today’s episode Hi. I’m part of the upcoming win with AI summit that IBM associate in New York City full disclosure, I am being compensated to attend and talk about the event.

    Well, the questions leading up to the event is what two companies need to do in order to win with AI and wanted to share some thoughts about the the enterprise AI journey? How does a company get to using AI? And what are the precursors of the prerequisites in order to do this because it’s not something that at a production level and especially at an enterprise level for bigger companies, you can just kind of do you absolutely can dabble into individual practitioners can certainly experiment with different tools and technologies. But how do you roll this out in a a well thought out

    way you need to follow the journey, there’s a there is a defined path of getting to artificial intelligence is

    intelligent use within the company. And it is a seven step journey. And so let’s actually bring this up here to here

    in the beginning, before you can ever talk about AI, you need to have a solid data Foundation, you need to have all your data you need to find, clean it, prepare it, unify it, make them have the ability to process it in an intelligent way across the enterprise in all the different functions that you eventually want to benefit from AI. Remember that AI delivers the three A’s as its benefits, acceleration, faster results, accuracy, better results and alleviation, reduction of stuff that you don’t want people doing anymore because it’s not a good use of their time. In order to get to those benefits. You first need that data foundation. Where’s the data? Is it in good condition? Can we even use it

    can we can we plug into it? The second level. The second iteration of this journey is around measurement. And analytics companies need to become data driven. And what that means is you make decisions using data. The analogy I use often is, every time you get in the car and turn on your GPS app, or your Maps app on your smartphone, you are literally becoming data driven. You decide where you want to go, and then the machine helps you get there. And so for companies they need to identify and then measure all the KPIs that they care about and understand what happened be able to explain for any KPI what happened in a in a relevant way. And this applies to every function in the company. This is not just marketing. Obviously, my background is marketing. So I know that best but sales service finance operations, HR across the board if you don’t have a measurement function in place, and the ability to do analytics to explain away

    What happened in great detail to for any function that’s the next step in the journey. The third step in the journey is insights and research. And this is where you develop your qualitative capabilities. And a lot of companies skip over this part. And they really shouldn’t, because nothing in the numbers themselves ever really does a great job of telling you why something happened. Yes, website traffic because up 40% yesterday, why

    fewer people applied for our open jobs in our New York City Office. Why we don’t know that unless you have qualitative capabilities. And you need that insights and research function to help explain your data story to tell your data story better to do market research, to do surveying to do Public Opinion Research and to take all the different data sources that are available and turn them into good explanations that you can then use to inform your strategy and tactics. The fourth step in this journey and this is this is one that can be concurrent once you’ve got your

    Measurement analytics in place is process automation. Once you know the KPIs, it is time to start rolling out improvements. And you don’t necessarily need machine learning or AI to be able to just do stuff better to be more efficient. This can be everything from the implementation, for example of Agile in your development function to actual robotic process automation, where you’re teaching computers to do very mundane things. Okay, this person at this desk copies and pastes the same spreadsheet every single week. Let’s get some code in place to do that. And companies have been doing Process Automation ever since computers entered the workplace. But this is something you won’t have as a formal discipline that is part of the foundation of AI. If you think about it, go back a couple episodes to our discussion on the known knowns, the unknown unknowns and so on and so forth. Process Automation is all about taking advantage of the known unknowns, you know your data you know it’s in your data and

    You know, what’s in your KPIs, and you can start making improvements on all of the things that you already know our issues. The fifth step in the journey is building a data science capability. and machine learning and data science are not the same thing. They are related. And one of the predicates, I think of machine learning is good data science capabilities. This is where you start exploring the unknowns where you start building statistical and mathematical capabilities, building models,

    trying to explain things in the data and writing code and building engineering and it functions around around your data to help at scale up to help get you to answers better answers, faster answers,

    but still very much human informed is still a ton of human judgment in data science to even understand what to experiment with. The data science function is very much about the scientific method. So all the things when if you go back to

    The earliest steps in the journey. If you’ve got a KPI and you’re not sure

    how to get to metrics that drive the KPI, that’s where a data science function will come into health. explore those unknowns and to answer those questions within your data. The six step in the journey is really rolling out your machine learning capabilities. This is supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, maybe even some deep learning, you’re advancing your process automation, you’re starting to really deliver on those three A’s, you’re getting the answers faster, you’re getting better answers and you are using machine learning to to drastically improve your process automation and your data science capabilities. The machines are doing more and more of that work, letting the people who are in network direct it instead of do it. And then the last step of course, is rolling out in production AI across the enterprise in every relevant role, every function that can have machines delivering better faster results in

    Reducing, mundane, boring,

    unexciting tasks that’s that’s the end state you’re looking for is your human talent is focused on the things humans are best at judgment, empathy, relationship, building, human to human contact, grand strategy, multidisciplinary stuff, that, that AI machine learning simply isn’t isn’t able to do yet. So when it comes to how can a company make the leap to a high

    there isn’t a leap is a journey. It’s a path from data foundation all the way through that enterprise rollout. And you can’t really skip steps. You can selectively maybe leap frog little places here. They’re at a very tactical level. But at a strategic organizational level. There’s there’s no shortcuts. There is the implementation of great technology there is building the talents that you have setting up processes adapting your culture as an organization and of course

    course all of the the technology that’s needed. One of the critical things people do wrong this is believe at AI is a technology implementation. It is only one third technology. It is also all of that that people that process that culture that that organizational stuff that goes with the technology in order to make it successful.

    Despite what you see in the movies and the news AI isn’t that have taken everyone’s job,

    certainly not in the in the foreseeable future. The technology is just not there yet, but it absolutely can make your job easier if you deploy it correctly. And if you follow the journey from data foundation through analytics insights, process automation, data science and machine learning to that full AI future. We’re going to have more in this series coming up. So stay tuned. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Problems Can AI Solve?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What Problems Can AI Solve_

    Sheri asks, “What is AI good at? What kinds of problems is it good at solving?”

    There are two sets of answers to this question. First, we need to know what AI delivers as an outcome:

    • Acceleration of results
    • Accuracy of results
    • Alleviation of repetitive work

    Second, we look to understanding what we know and don’t know about our problem to determine whether AI is a good fit or not.

    • Known knowns: we know the destination and how to get there
    • Known unknowns: we know the destination but not how to get there
    • Unknown knowns: we know the area but don’t know where to go
    • Unknown unknowns: we don’t know the area or where we’re going

    The less we know, the less AI helps us to solve those problems.

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    In today’s episode, Sherry asks,

    What is AI? good at? What kinds of problems is a good at solving

    AI delivers three major benefits, acceleration, accuracy and alleviation. I call them the three A’s and acceleration is getting to the answer faster. Certainly, machines can think and compute much, much faster than humans can. The second is accuracy, any kind of interview dealing with mathematics and statistics and probability and stuff like that, you’re going to get better answers from machine a fair amount of time, then you will from a human, we’re seeing examples of this, where

    machines using imaging are diagnosing cancer more accurately, then

    the Newman doctors are. And of course, the third bucket is alleviation, offloading relatively low value tasks or lower value tasks to machines so that the humans are freed up to do more valuable work.

    Now, we consider the kinds of problems that AI is good at solving other kinds of problems that’s not good at solving

    go go back a real long way to something from 2009 to 2010, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was criticized in a press conference for saying that there are known knowns and known unknowns and unknown unknowns, it was a kind of a dodgy answer to a question at the time. So the criticism was valid, but the framework is actually not a bad one. So let’s bring this up here,

    known knowns, our problems to which we know we have the answers, we know how to get the answers. And what we’re looking for, is not the answer we’re looking for how to get the answer better, or faster, or, or have something else do it again, this is the sweet spot of AI, the three X, known knowns are things that we know how to automate, and we know how to offload and we know how to validate the answer is correct. So it’s a great candidate, any kind of problem where we know what the answer is, we know how to get the answer that we have the code, the tools or the data to do so let AI do those kinds of problems.

    The second category of of is, we we know,

    we know the answer, we don’t necessarily know how to get it

    the known unknowns,

    this is analogous to, if you have a GPS or a Maps app, right? You have a destination, you have a route to get there, if you know where you’re going, but you’re not sure how to get their GPS is a helpful thing to do, right? Certainly, a GPS, and that that were you know how to get there. And you know, the end, you know, the destination, that’s something that

    you may not even necessarily need AI for. But in this in this example, knowing where you’re going with not knowing how to get there is the unknown unknown. And that means that you know, the destination know the outcome, you know what you’re looking for, but you’re not sure about the code, you’re not sure about the data and things like that you’re not sure about the ingredients to get to the outcome that you want,

    but you still have a general idea of where it is that you’re going to destination, you’re going to, again, AI can be helpful here,

    unsupervised learning and machine learning would be a good candidate here

    for helping understand some of these questions. But you still have a lot of unknowns, you still have a lot of need for what’s more data science than it is machine learning and deep learning, and so on and so forth. The third category in the upper left hand corner is the unknown knowns. So in that GPS example, this is, you know, sort of the, the means, but you don’t necessarily have a destination set, right? So, you, you know, the area, you know, the area really well, and you’re not sure where you’re going. But wherever it is, within that, you know, 25 mile radius your house, you know how to get that, you know, the roads like the back your hand, so, you know,

    your data, you know, you have great code, but you don’t have a business answer

    that you’re trying to get to. And again, this is where some forms of, of machine learning, like supervised learning can be helpful. But at the same time, you know, you you,

    you have a problem that AI is not necessarily going to be great at solving, right, if you setting the destination for the GPS is much more a human judgment call than it is machine call a long time the machines can tell you

    in this area around you hear the 25 places that currently have no traffic

    getting to them. So wherever you want to go, it’s fast to get there. But you still have to make a choice. So that’s another area where, again, ai can’t be hand off the entire thing. But it can help data but you we’ll need a data scientist to an a business person to help you get to the answer you want, what destination Are we going to set and then the machine we can help you figure out how to get there

    contrasting to the previous answer, where you know where you’re going, you just didn’t know how to get there. The last is the unknown unknowns. Where we don’t know what we don’t know, we don’t know what kind of data we have. We don’t know what kind of technology we have. We have no business goals and things, this is something that AI isn’t going to help you fix, right. So if you if you don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t know how to get there. And you don’t have any sense of the lay of the land, you know, you get dropped off in a foreign city that you have no knowledge about, you don’t speak the language

    AI is not going to help you there. There. You can use very tiny use cases like language translation, for example, to read the signs. But fundamentally, you don’t know where you’re going. And you don’t know what it looks like when you get there. And this is something that I can’t help with. This is a pure business problem that where you’ve got to either pick one of those two, you pick, you know, learning the lay of the land, or you got to pick a destination and then try and figure out how to get there in order for you to start making progress. So maybe you’re entering a new market, maybe you’ve got a new audience are trying to tackle and you haven’t the foggiest idea what that’s where you’re going to need true exploration, true data science, very little AI is going to help you there because you don’t know what you don’t know. So think about it from those perspectives of the four categories for talking about, you know, the destination and you know, the route you know the destination, but you don’t know the route, you know, all the routes, but not the destination or you don’t know either the destination or the or the lay of the land of those categories. AI is great at improving what you know,

    and this terrible right now at trying to solve for things that you don’t know. So when you think about what kinds of problems you’re solving for, and you think considering artificial intelligence as a solution,

    think about what you know, think about the types of code or the data you would need to get to what you know,

    and ultimately you’re going to need to retain and integrate your business users your data scientists your engineers and and your and your

    I guess the the the overall strategists to put all the pieces together No one person at in at least in larger enterprises is going to be able to do everything right.

    You will have people who can, you know, dabble in each of the areas and help you make some progress, you know, set intermediate destinations but at the end of the day,

    the problems that AI can solve the things that it can do our supplementary to what we provide as humans

    our judgment, our experience our cross domain knowledge, but she’s can’t do that yet. And it’s gonna be a long time for the can. So great question, very complex question and we’re using kind of a silly framework here as a way to to help bring some clarity to it. As always, please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel and talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Standardize Metrics and Measurement

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Standardize Metrics and Measurement

    Kevin asks, “How do we standardize metrics and measurement, especially when different parts of the company do things differently?”

    Great and very common question. The answer is, unsurprisingly, a framework:

    • Goal alignment
    • Exploratory data analysis
    • Model creation
    • Model validation
    • Model deployment
    • Adoption, training, and compliance
    • Measurement of compliance
    • Refinement and improvement

    If this sounds familiar, this is also the process for bringing machine learning models to fruition as well.

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    In today’s episode, Kevin asks, How do we standardized metrics and measurement across the organization special in different parts of the company do things differently? different business units have their own style of doing stuff? It’s a great and very common question, especially in larger companies and enterprises. The answer to

    this question is not surprising. It’s going to be a framework, it’s going to be a model for building a model, kind of a meta model, if you will. So let’s

    look at this on fact, to bring this up here.

    This is the process for putting together a an enterprise analytics system or standardization or framework or whatever you want to call it. It should look familiar, by the way, because this is also the model that we use for things like machine learning, and for data systems, and bi and all the technology that we want to deploy in a way that max Mises adoption and compliance.

    So let’s go through this for the first part is goal alignment, what goals are we trying to align our system with?

    What are the business goals that everything has to roll back up to, if we don’t have that clearly defined and written out, nothing’s going to work here, because everyone’s going to keep trying to address their own specific goals, instead of the big picture goals, we need to make sure that we have those goals documented, and that we have the process for the obtain them documented, and frankly, the governance who’s in charge of these different goals, having that document to because if you don’t have those stakeholders clearly mapped out, you’re going to create something that nobody’s gonna want. So that is super important. That’s why this comes first. Second, is exploratory data analysis, given that we understand the goals, what are all the systems that feed into those goals, there’s a little worksheet that I typically use that has, you know, the KPIs, people normally measure with the business goals, and you try and connect the dots to see how things get put together. But exploratory data analysis is super important. It requires statistics and data analytics tools, it may require some machine learning, it may not, but it requires you to take all the, the the KPIs and metrics that you’ve got, and essentially do mass statistical analysis to figure out what of all this data that we collect actually has a mathematical relationship with the outcomes we care about. So very, very important. The third step is creating that framework, once you have the math proven out, and you create a framework and say, Okay, these are the things that are important. So on the marketing side, for example, very silly example, let’s say that you’ve gone and, and connect to all your social and search and email and referral traffic, and all that stuff. And, and it turns out that email sent on Thursdays plus tweets containing emoji are the thing Great, now, you create a model for that saying, hey, these are the things that we need to do. And when we validate the model we tested, we will want to prove that this is the case. And so what you go through and, and you you document out all the things that that mathematically have relationship. And that brings us to the next stage, which is validation. So now that we’ve got this model, now we test it and we say, okay, hey, Social Media Manager, tweet more emoji, and see what happens, right? Hey, email team sent two emails on Thursday instead of one, or make sure you send an email every Thursday instead of every other Thursday with the

    intent to prove causality. One of the the biggest traps and the oldest traps in analytics is making the assumption the correlation is causality. That’s not the case, you have to prove it through the scientific method. That’s what the validation stages validation is, essentially using the scientific method to rigorously prove that the data you’ve collected is causal in nature. And, and can we translate it as such, one, you’ve validated your measurement model, your metrics model, then you roll it out, that’s where we get to deployment. And that means taking all the systems that you’ve engineered up to this point, and transforming them into production systems, to taking them out of test environments, making sure that they are secure, which is a really big deal, making sure that they are idiot proof, I guess,

    but require the minimum amount of hand holding, so that the system can scale up as fast as possible. And deployment can take a long time, depending on how complex the system you’ve built, it can take months, possibly even years, because you need to do it right, you need to make sure that everybody who gets it can adopt it and work with it. The next second stage is adoption. This is adoption of the system, which means training, which means development, which means compliance. Just like if you were rolling out of medication at a hospital, you’d want to make sure that your your users were complying with it, they were actually using it. So making sure that you’ve got this framework in place, and that you’re measuring the next stage is measuring that compliance, what are people doing are people using system I mean, not using the system if you if that’s not the case, then gland going back to the beginning with that goal alignment, that governance process is when you identified all the people who have a stake in this thing, this when you’re at the adoption and measuring phases, you have to go back and check on those people and say, Are you using the system, why you’re not using system if you’re not what needs to be improved if you are using it, and what are the consequences of a failure to comply. So if it’s, you know, if there are people in the company who are just not doing the thing, even though they’ve received a directive from high end up, again, back to the goal line, but section, you’ve got that executive buy in you, you’ve you’ve established that. And so now we get to the adoption phase, it’s like, you got to do the thing, because everybody who signed on to this project said they were going to do the thing. So do the thing.

    If in the measurement phase, you find that people are not doing the thing, they’re not using the model, they’re not using the systems with the software, that’s when you go into the improvement face. And the improvement face doesn’t necessarily mean improvement of the model and improvement, maybe improving the people improving the processes that the model needs in order to be functional, because chances are hopeful you worked out a good number of the bugs in the creation and validation stage. The improvement maybe improving the uptake of the model and its participation. There will of course, be things like software changes, software updates, as technologies change, that improvement and refinement process is always ongoing, and then brings us full circle back to goal alignment. So you’ve developed Do you’ve deployed this thing, it’s in place,

    it is proven it is functional people are using it great is is it delivering the impact that you want? If not, we go back to gold alignment. Okay, was there something that got missed the company’s business change, did technology change so substantially, that all the efforts to that point have been nullified again, that’s a real risk when you’re talking to three four year deployments for massive massive systems. So anybody who’s been through an ER p system deployment, how much fun it is and how quickly it doesn’t go and, and you can see why the cycle has to be iterative and ongoing. If you want to kick it up a notch if you can kick it up a notch because your company culture supports it, take a look at this model and then transform it with agile using agile methodology instead of one big waterfall process. How do you do this in an iterative fashion that allows you to upgrade your standardization upgrade your metrics, measurement and model on a rapid frequent basis. You need to have it in place first, you can’t sort of iterate through the plane. So trying to fly at least the first pass but after that, how do you upgrade those efforts to using an agile model if your company culture supports it? So great question. common question, complex question. This is something that’s going to take a very long time it will not be something that is easy or overnight even for the smallest companies because again, that exploration that model creation that model validation using analytics using data science using machine learning, not something that is an overnight thing despite our best wishes. So great question. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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