The Lab of the Future: Big Data Enables a Big Role for AI

In most categories, maturity is a quality that comes effortlessly to the aged and arduously to the young--not so for data maturity. When it comes to data, today's startups spring to life already pushing the boundaries of its collection, harnessing its insights, and leaning on AI to make sense of its root causes. Despite their bound booklets titled "Digitization Strategy" and secured rooms labeled "Lab of the Future," titans of industry are challenged with wriggling their way out of longstanding practices, breaking free of tired infrastructure, and asserting their way to modern data practices over the objections of sometimes thousands of internal stakeholders.