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- Leading Through the Shift: How a Technical Manager Can Manage AI Team Members
- The Agentic AI Strategy: From Vision to Value
- Transforming Retail Operations: A GenAI Management Framework for Business Unit Leaders
- When Every Business Unit Builds Its Tech: Why Lack of Strategy Turns AI Into a Mess
- Guardrails for Generative AI: Why a CTO Must Go Beyond PDPA to Protect Both Consumers and the Company
Category: Analytics
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From my experience, one of the most difficult tasks as a CTO is finding funding. Given that AI initiatives, which are often mandated by the board and CEO, require substantial investment, they usually do not come with abundant funding but usually come with a statement about reallocating technical team resources. It is a big burden…
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In the last few years, as a technical advisor and educator, I have dealt with “ Hey, Let us use Big Data! Hey, it is the boss’s mandate to use AI. “ Apparently, these people do not understand technology and have no clue about business strategy. Unfortunately, connections go a long way to get you a…
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This article is based on my personal experience helping companies transition to data-driven organizations. Talking to many of my colleagues, I discovered that they are having a similar problem. I wrote this article hoping to provide some possible answers to solving these problems. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Organizational culture plays a pivotal role in…
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This article is inspired by the book Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, which I just read. As a technical consultant, I discovered that many new startups do not quite understand strategy. Without a good strategy, I have seen many of these startups fall by the wayside. With the increasing opportunity for new startups…
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CEO: Alex, can you help us build our company’s GenAI capabilities? We want to be on the train before our competitors, and we believe our company’s AI capabilities are battle-ready. Alex: Your company’s AI capabilities are actually best in the imaginary area. Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, companies must remain…
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Last year, I started working with my PhD student on mapping, exploring, and extending the concept from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War into the realm of data-driven strategy and transformation. Unfortunately, we have to postpone the research until later next year. I see the possibility of applying the concept to the domain, specifically for…
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I experienced a lack of technical documentation most of the time in Asia. This practice took me by surprise as my professors trained me to keep an engineering log and always do documentation. Actually, in the university, we have to keep our lab documentation for all the labs until we graduate. Since then, I have…
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I have had my shares of the NO from CTO. I spent many years learning how to get the YES, and I tell you, it is not an easy task, especially if you do not understand the CTO’s motivations. Note that culture also plays a very important part in understanding your CTO, and you will…
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Data-driven transformation is reshaping the business landscape, requiring organizations to adapt rapidly to new technologies and paradigms. I helped companies move toward data-driven transformation, focusing on infrastructure design and planning. I also have been asked to help reskill many IT and network engineers. I was also somewhat involved with a spin-off company that inherited a…
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