Alexa, What Should My Intelligent Agents Strategy Look Like?

As packages continue to arrive from this year's record-breaking Black Friday weekend, it's no doubt you're seeing Amazon packages complete with front-and-center ads for Amazon's Echo and Dot devices. You may even be one of the reported millions that ordered one that weekend. These are more than just devices -- they are Alexa-enabled and are helping Alexa further integrate into consumers' lives. And Alexa isn't alone: from Alexa to Google Now to Microsoft's Cortana to Apple's Siri, we have a budding class of intelligent agents (IAs) on the rise. In 2015, 45% of US online adults used at least one.