Let me start right off the bat: many incumbent organizations risk missing out on the strategic opportunity of AI -- instead focusing on tactical optimization initiatives. General purpose technologies like AI have the potential to change how companies operate and create value, disrupting entire industries along the way. History proves however that new paradigms are needed for new technologies to come to fruition. The good news is for AI that these paradigms are already emerging-- they are just unevenly distributed. Using AI for both short term gains and long term strategic value is not trivial and requires strong leadership skills: combining vision with experimentation and aiming for both optimization and strategic plays.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is, AI will not only transform your entire business, whether you are in health care, finance, retail or manufacturing, but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT), and how we measure its value, has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency, and the speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage. This trend is fueling a surging interest in deep learning and AI, or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is: AI will not only transform your entire business -- whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, or manufacturing -- but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT) -- and how we measure its value -- has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency. The speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is, AI will not only transform your entire business, whether you are in health care, finance, retail or manufacturing, but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT), and how we measure its value, has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency, and the speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage. This trend is fueling a surging interest in deep learning and AI, or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is, AI will not only transform your entire business, whether you are in health care, finance, retail or manufacturing, but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT), and how we measure its value, has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency, and the speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage. This trend is fueling a surging interest in deep learning and AI, or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is: AI will not only transform your entire business -- whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, or manufacturing -- but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT) -- and how we measure its value -- has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency. The speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage.