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No More AI Winters: Really !!

Contributed by:

James Sinur, CEO, Fleuresque

History teaches us that there were two large AI Winters in the past. One starting in the mid 1970s and another in the late 1980's There were very clear reasons for the last two AI Winters, but most of the technical and cost issues are gone. The wild card is how humans accept AI this time around. My bet is against another brutal winter. This does not mean there won't be cold snaps, but a 15-20 year freeze out doesn't seem likely now.

The First AI Winter:
It was caused by a couple of major factors. The first and foremost was the lack of computer power. The examples that were put forward were "toy" solutions that really did not appeal to the investors at all. This set off a period of infighting about Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the AI community which scared off the investors for a long time.

The Second AI Winter:

Digital Transformation: A Brief Guide For Game Changers

Author: Jim Sinur, VP & Research Fellow, Aragon Research, Inc.

As Shawn Dubravac wrote in Digital Destiny, "Humanity is entering a new era. Beyond the mere acquisition of ever more digital devices with ever more incredible functionality, the immediate future will usher in the all-digital lifestyle and an 'Internet of Everything.' The transformation of our lives will be breathtaking." Now comes the critical question, what are you, as a leader of your organization going to do --transform, or die a slow, painful death?

Operating Model Canvas

Author: Andrew Campbell, Mr, Ashridge Executive Education

The journey from strategy to operating success depends on creating an organization that can deliver the chosen strategy. This book, explaining the Operating Model Canvas, shows you how to do this. It teaches you how to define the main work processes, choose an organization structure, develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. The Operating Model Canvas helps you to create a target operating model aligned to your strategy.

High Performance Through Business Process Management

Author: Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, Managing Director | Co-CEO, BPM-D

This management book presents value-driven business process management as a successful discipline to turn strategy into people- and technology-based execution, quickly and at minimal risk. It shows how to achieve high performance successfully in a digital business environment.

Static business models do not keep pace with the dynamic changes in our digital world. Organizations need a management approach that fits this environment and capitalizes on its opportunities while minimizing the related risks. They need to execute their business strategy fast and reliably. In effect, they have to know how and when to modify or enhance their business processes, which processes are the best candidates for intervention, and how to move rapidly from strategy to execution.

The BPI Blueprint

Author: Shelley Sweet, Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and President , i4 Process

A Step-By-Step Guide to Make Your Business Process Improvement Projects Simple, Structured, and Successful

The BPI Blueprint provides you with a detailed plan of action to create results the first time, inspire leaders of business processes, and build invigorated skilled teams. So if you're looking for a simple, no nonsense, guide to help you develop and manage effective Business Process Improvement projects, regardless of your experience-level, you've got the right book.

This practical guide tells you exactly what's required at each phase, such as: Chartering and Staffing, Process Discovery, Process Analysis, Process Design, and Implementation Plan. Plus, modeling, analytical and redesign tools and techniques are explained so you can replicate them. And client examples provide guideposts; demonstrating what works, what doesn't, and why. All of this enables you to keep your BPI Projects simple, structured and successful.

The Future of Digital Business

The top three digital destinations are new business opportunities, better customer loyalty and better business results.

No organization is too big to fail. The avg tenure of a S&P 500 company is forecast to shrink to 14 years by 2026. Large companies are feeling the pressure from customers and competitors to "go digital" more and more everyday.

It starts with digital mini journeys.

Register for this webcast to find out what the top ten fool proof digital mini journeys are.

Essential Skills for Digital Business Leaders

A successful digital business initiative relies upon adopting agile principles, an enduring focus on improving customer experience and executing programs with a business process based view with enabling digital information technology. Measuring what matters to customers and challenging the current operating model of the business are two important characteristics of digitally mature organizations. Join Gregg Rock and our leading digital business experts as they discuss the critical skills needed in your digital transformation initiatives:

Introduction to Digital Business
- by Andrew Spanyi
Design Thinking Applied
- by Clay Richardson
Robotic Process Automation
- by Cornelius Pone
Digital Customer Experience
- by Andrew Spanyi

The Pace Setting Business Architect: Lessons From the Field

Contributed by:

Dean Heltemes, Senior Director, Ameriprise Financial

You don't need me to tell you that the pace of disruption and change in business is already immense and is accelerating. The Wall Street Journal several years ago published an interesting comparison of how long it takes for a new product to reach 50 million users. Updates to this have been popping up all over social media recently that demonstrate the acceleration:

How to Be Agile in a Non Agile Organization (Part 2): Aligning Agile projects to corporate reporting structures

Contributed by:

Jamie Cooke, Managing Director, Both Hemispheres, LLC

This is the second in a series of articles that will give you strategies for aligning your Agile work to your organizational structures. The first article focused on delivering Agile projects within existing Project, Process and Quality Management frameworks. In this article, the focus is on delivering Agile projects within the existing corporate reporting structures of your organization.

Agile approaches provide a number of mechanisms for tracking progress, including formal reports (e.g. executive dashboards), status update tools (e.g. WIP boards and product backlogs), and ongoing communication with stakeholders.

The ideal Agile reporting environment would leverage these tools without asking staff to do extra (often redundant) work to meet corporate reporting requirements. Specifically, this would involve using:

Business Process Modeling in Higher Education Institutions

Contributed by:

Kevin Nelson, Editor-in-chief, EliteEssayWriters

Embrace business process modeling!

All higher education establishments, from small colleges to large campus institutions, are involved in some complex processes to deliver effective teaching and learning. It is usually plain to see that there is room for improvement for the methods used. The issue now becomes, how do they tackle the problems and what do they tackle first? The implementation of new systems then becomes imperative since it’s usually a drive for considering how to carry out the business process.

Business process modeling is the graphical representation of a company, in this case, higher education institutions, as a means to identify potential improvements. They can achieve this through different graphics methods such as data flow diagrams or the use of flowcharts among other types. 25% of organizations worldwide are conducting training in business management systems, so quite a number of institutions are getting onboard.