New Platforms, AI, & Evolving the Organization – Hacker Noon

AI and deep learning will be a fundamental game changer, akin to the wave of innovation that was ushered in as "mobile" and "cloud" became major category enablers over the past decade. When we think back to the advent of the internet, companies needed a different kind of DNA to build a massive organization in the age of a new platform. In other words, it wasn't enough to take an offline shopping mall, with brick & mortar stores like Sears or Macy's, and give them a website -- that just didn't equate to an ecommerce internet company. It took a brand new organization with a different way of thinking to build Amazon and completely overhaul the ecommerce landscape in the two decades that followed. A big part of that was because there were too many new roles, methodologies, and processes that required developing new skill sets that the old guard was either unable or unwilling to do.