Align AI Strategy with Business Objectives - The leadership, IT, and end users in the Sales/Marketing departments, among other parties and stakeholders, would all need to support an AI development project. Businesses must ensure that their AI initiative is in line with their entire business strategy and that all parties involved are aware of the requirements...
The debate over whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can replace humans in the future has been raging for some time now. While some believe that AI will eventually be able to do everything that humans can do, others are more skeptical and believe that AI will never be able to completely replace humans. The truth is that AI is already being...
As I started diving deep to find the bottlenecks in business with Raj, the first thing to focus on was Quality of leads. “Should we not fine tune our offering, based on the needs of the customer?” Raj had a genuine concern. “Every lead is a lead, if we don’t service, it will be a loss of business.” “Yes, it is,...
“Manjiri, the client wants these reports urgently. They have an important meeting with the investors. They have come up with an interesting angle to present their case and need the reports done just right to strengthen their argument.” “this visualization is interesting. We could use the new visualization tool that is capable and feed the data through the data lake...
It was fun meeting Raj after a few months. Raj was in charge of the sales function and was doing extremely well. He was excellent in making new friends and maintaining excellent relations. Raj was excited by the possibility of running own business and started one at the first opportunity. No doubt he was able to fetch a significant...
Microservices is one of very commonly used terms in the modern era of software development. The service oriented architecture started gaining popularity due to known challenges in legacy monolith applications - challenges such as communication to other applications, ease of maintenance, ease of deployment and so on. Microservices offer multiple advantages over monolith applications - they implement single responsibility principle...
“My organisation is very nimble, and I have to keep changing things regularly in response to the customer requirements.” Amit was right in his argument. Any organization growth will change based on many external factors, customers are the most important ones. When the senior leadership keeps changing the path, the people at lower levels need to understand the reasons and...
It is November 21st. The yearend is approaching fast. It’s the time when everyone is publishing lists. Trends for the future, top ten things to watch out and so on. I am going to take this opportunity and make a list of top five habits that have helped me over the years. Build a framework of concepts in your...
Problem statement: Our task involved creating a structured dataset that contains 6 million news articles and can analyze the texts in seconds. Dataset: The dataset is set of real-time trackers which ‘intelligently’ filter relevant articles from US, German and Indian newspapers and add them to the dataset. Our approach: Data gathering: Our algorithm automatically scanned newspaper websites and stored the article...
Problem statement: Our client wanted to extract insights about competitors and internal processes based on external communication with potential or existing clients. Dataset: The dataset is set of real-time trackers which ‘intelligently’ filter relevant articles from US, German and Indian newspapers and add them to the dataset. Key value addition: Proprietary textual classifiers (enhanced Bayes classifiers) developed in-house using SCALA/MongoDB were...
