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Building a Culture That Embraces Data and AI
Many organizations aspire to have cultures that embrace data, analytics and AI, and other new technologies, but few make specific attempts to create such cultures. TD Wealth, the wealth management unit of Toronto-based TD Bank Group, is one organization that isn't content to think wishfully about this sort of cultural change. It created a program called WealthACT--for "Accelerate Change through Technology"--to try to get senior and middle-level executives in the business unit excited about what technology can do for their business. I was only a bit player in this program, having spoken to participants in the first WealthACT program in the summer of 2018. They visited Cambridge and Boston to hear from MIT faculty, startup entrepreneurs, and assorted "experts" like me.