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Nicholas Evans

Founder at Thinkers360

Highland Village, Texas, United States

Successful senior executive helping companies develop and implement their technology-enabled business strategy while leveraging opportunities for digital disruption, innovation, transformation and operational excellence. Please join me on Twitter @NicholasDEvans

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Influencing
Travels From: Dallas, Texas
Speaking Topics: Innovation, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology

Nicholas Evans Points
Academic 5
Author 360
Influencer 193
Speaker 23
Entrepreneur 40
Total 621

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

AI 30.18
Analytics 30.04
AR/VR
Autonomous Vehicles 30.58
Big Data 30.02
Blockchain 30.38
Business Strategy 30.10
Climate Change 30.22
Cloud 30.16
COVID19 30.27
Cryptocurrency 30.63
Culture 30.02
Customer Experience 30.62
Customer Loyalty 30.05
Cybersecurity 30.10
Design Thinking 30.16
Digital Disruption 35.01
Digital Transformation 34.15
Digital Twins 30.39
EdTech 30.07
Emerging Technology 40.12
ERP
Future of Work 30.02
GovTech 30.06
Innovation 36.83
IoT 30.85
Leadership 30.03
Lean Startup 30.11
Marketing 30.05
Mobility 42.44
Open Innovation 30.62
Procurement 30.19
PropTech 30.52
Retail 30.20
Social 35.97
Startups 30.06
Supply Chain 30.12
Sustainability 30.34
Transformation

Industry Experience

Consumer Products
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Manufacturing
Oil & Gas
Professional Services
Retail
Telecommunications
Travel & Transportation
Utilities

Publications & Experience

1 Academic Whitepaper
Future Skills
Oxford University Press
February 26, 2016
Nicholas D. Evans FBCS looks at the future IT skills that will be needed as the
digital business era evolves. Organisations have to select from a palette of new technologies
to enable their strategies for transforming business models, processes, products and
services. IT skills in these areas will be vital.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Innovation

97 Article/Blogs
Digital twins are primed to revolutionize the infrastructure industry
CIO.com
August 16, 2022
How innovation, efficiency and intelligence across the infrastructure ecosystem is finding a kindred spirit in digital twins.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Digital Twins

9 best practices for better innovation
Import from cio.com
October 30, 2020
As we move into 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating digital transformation and innovation across all industries. Many CIOs are stepping up and expanding the purview of their teams from a focus on innovation for IT to innovation on behalf of their entire organization.To read this article in f

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Tags: Innovation

Building enterprise agility
Import from cio.com
September 07, 2020
Disruption, first digital disruption and now business disruption in the wake of COVID-19, has become the rule rather than the exception, making this a critical time for organizations to reassess their digital transformation strategies as well as core competencies and capabilities.To read this articl

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3 steps to developing a risk response advisory system
Import from cio.com
June 23, 2020
If your business continuity and disaster recovery plan, or any approach for that matter, is serving you well in times of COVID-19, you can stop reading now. However, if the crisis has made you look for other solutions and approaches simply to survive, let alone thrive, please read on.To read this ar

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Post COVID-19 business models: Finding the new normal
Import from cio.com
April 20, 2020
If you listen to business and technology pundits, you may have heard that the post COVID-19 world will be completely different from the pre COVID-19 world. Sound familiar? In the midst of a crisis, it’s tempting to label any major disruption as ushering in a new normal. However, at least in terms

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Business Strategy, COVID19

5 ways to fast-track your next AI implementation
Import from cio.com
August 20, 2019


Preparing for and implementing AI projects can be a multi-year journey. According to the latest figures, only 28% of respondents reported getting past the AI planning stage in the first year. This is due to several factors including the relative maturity of the technology (at least in the ever-ex

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IDG Contributor Network: 5 ways to fast-track your next AI implementation
Import from cio.com
August 20, 2019

Preparing for and implementing AI projects can be a multi-year journey. According to the latest figures, only 28% of respondents reported getting past the AI planning stage in the first year. This is due to several factors including the relative maturity of the technology (at least in the ever-ex

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation

Intelligent Spend Management And The Evolution Of Procurement
Disruption Hub
July 01, 2019
Organisations are taking a holistic approach to procurement with Intelligent Spend Management

In a recent article for D/SRUPTION, ‘Disrupting Procurement: AI, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain And IoT’, we examined some of the emerging technologies shaking up the traditional business function of procurement. These enabling technologies are rattling the status quo for traditional procurement organisations – should they choose to accept this mission – enabling them to transform their business processes, while unlocking substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies along the way.

As an example, robotic process automation (RPA) can typically drive up to 25 to 50 per cent in cost savings; advanced analytics, including should-cost analysis, can reduce the cost of component products or services by up to 40 per cent, and it’s estimated that blockchain for invoice processing could reduce cost per invoice by up to 60 per cent.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Procurement

IDG Contributor Network: The digital transformation debate: It’s about people AND technology
Import from cio.com
May 03, 2019


In recent years, there have been a wave of articles professing that digital transformation is about people, not technology. The argument typically runs along the lines that it takes people to execute the strategy and without the right skills, culture and change management, any digital transformat

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Change Management

The digital transformation debate: It’s about people AND technology
Import from cio.com
May 03, 2019
Technology is an integral part of the strategic themes for digital transformation and the new competencies of the top performers.

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IDG Contributor Network: Introducing the “lazy economy” business model and implications for CIOs
Import from cio.com
January 24, 2019
We’ve all heard of the sharing economy and the gig economy, but a new business model is quietly introducing itself across many consumer-facing industries. It’s an extreme form of the convenience economy that I like to term the “lazy economy.” The term is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but...

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Introducing the “lazy economy” business model and implications for CIOs
Import from cio.com
January 24, 2019


We’ve all heard of the sharing economy and the gig economy, but a new business model is quietly introducing itself across many consumer-facing industries. It’s an extreme form of the convenience economy that I like to term the “lazy economy.” The term is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but ther

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IDG Contributor Network: Why you don’t need a Chief [insert new tech name here] Officer
Import from cio.com
November 26, 2018
In recent years, as each new emerging technology or trend has appeared, we’ve seen widespread calls by tech and industry pundits for organizations to create new CXO positions specifically for each technology or trend.We’ve seen this for roles such as Chief [Data, Data Visualization, Customer...

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Innovation

Why you don’t need a Chief [insert new tech name here] Officer
Import from cio.com
November 26, 2018


In recent years, as each new emerging technology or trend has appeared, we’ve seen widespread calls by tech and industry pundits for organizations to create new CXO positions specifically for each technology or trend.We’ve seen this for roles such as Chief [Data, Data Visualization, Customer,

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Taking a counterintuitive approach to business strategy and technology deployment
Import from cio.com
October 30, 2018


As with other disruptive technologies such as augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, drones/UAVs and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to transform business models, processes, products and services. According to McKinsey, it’s estimated that AI has t

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Tags: Drones, IoT, AI

IDG Contributor Network: Taking a counterintuitive approach to business strategy and technology deployment
Import from cio.com
October 30, 2018

As with other disruptive technologies such as augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, drones/UAVs and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to transform business models, processes, products and services. According to McKinsey, it’s estimated that AI has t

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Business Strategy

IDG Contributor Network: Digital transformation with purpose: Making the shift towards balanced business models
Import from cio.com
September 20, 2018
While many companies are well into their digital transformation journey, it’s been widely reported that relatively few organizations are truly thriving or succeeding. Consultancy Inc.Digital, for example, cites only 18% of organizations as digitally thriving and consultancy ClearPrism has found...

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Sustainability, Climate Change

Digital transformation with purpose: Making the shift towards balanced business models
CIO.com
September 20, 2018
While many companies are well into their digital transformation journey, it’s been widely reported that relatively few organizations are truly thriving or succeeding. Consultancy Inc.Digital, for example, cites only 18% of organizations as digitally thriving and consultancy ClearPrism has found that “fewer than 12% of companies capture more than 85% of economic profit in any industry.”

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Sustainability, Climate Change

Drones in the supply chain: the evolving drone landscape and ecosystem
Import from cio.com
September 11, 2018


According to Goldman Sachs, the drone market is projected to be a $100 billion opportunity between 2016 and 2020. Key markets include military ($70 billion), consumer ($17 billion), and commercial/civil ($13 billion) with the latter being the fastest growth opportunity.In recent years, there’s

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Tags: Drones, Ecosystems, Supply Chain

IDG Contributor Network: Drones in the supply chain: the evolving drone landscape and ecosystem
Import from cio.com
September 11, 2018
According to Goldman Sachs, the drone market is projected to be a $100 billion opportunity between 2016 and 2020. Key markets include military ($70 billion), consumer ($17 billion), and commercial/civil ($13 billion) with the latter being the fastest growth opportunity.In recent years...

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Tags: Supply Chain, Autonomous Vehicles, PropTech

IDG Contributor Network: 5 design considerations for your design thinking workshop
Import from cio.com
August 27, 2018
According to Forrester: “Design thinking is a creative problem-solving — and opportunity-finding — mindset and methodology with a bias toward action that puts the emphasis on empathizing with the customer, clearly defining the problem, collaboratively ideating solutions, and then ...

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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Open Innovation

5 design considerations for your design thinking workshop
Import from cio.com
August 27, 2018


According to Forrester:
“Design thinking is a creative problem-solving — and opportunity-finding — mindset and methodology with a bias toward action that puts the emphasis on empathizing with the customer, clearly defining the problem, collaboratively ideating solutions, and then prototypin

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IDG Contributor Network: How the Walmart-Microsoft partnership builds on the four strategic themes for digital transformation
Import from cio.com
July 25, 2018
Walmart and Microsoft recently announced a five-year strategic partnership to further accelerate digital innovation in retail. This comes as a major announcement both for observers of the cloud wars as well as observers of the continuing digital transformation in retail.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, IoT, Retail

How the Walmart-Microsoft partnership builds on the four strategic themes for digital transformation
Import from cio.com
July 25, 2018


Walmart and Microsoft recently announced a five-year strategic partnership to further accelerate digital innovation in retail. This comes as a major announcement both for observers of the cloud wars as well as observers of the continuing digital transformation in retail. The agreement will levera

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Tags: Retail

4 ways artificial intelligence will shape the future of learning technology
Import from cio.com
July 13, 2018


With the rapid pace of innovation continually disrupting business models, and in many cases entire industries, how will online learning keep up to provide the relevant courseware for today’s and tomorrow’s workforce? This will be essential for economic growth and to support a thriving, colleg

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Tags: AI

4 Books
The Internet of Things: Living in a connected world
British Computer Society
May 02, 2017
Over the last few years the Internet of Things (IoT), the large network of devices ('things') connected to the internet and able to send and receive data has become a very hot topic, sparking much excitement and debate across industries. This ebook provides a collection of articles discussing the role, impact, benefits, and issues around the current and future Internet of Things.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, IoT

Mastering Digital Business: How Powerful Combinations of Disruptive Technologies Are Enabling the Next Wave of Digital Transformation
British Computer Society
January 31, 2017
Today, companies worldwide are applying digital transformation to redesign traditional business models and strategies in the context of new disruptive technologies, digitally-savvy consumers, and our globally connected society. This strategic guide for business and IT executives focuses on how today's most disruptive technologies (including social, mobile, analytics, cloud, wearables, intelligent automation, robotics, and the IoT) can be applied in powerful combinations, together with platform business models, mastery of digital services, and leading practices in corporate innovation, to help you develop and execute your digital strategies for competitive advantage.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Innovation

Business Agility: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Mobile Business Solutions
Financial Times Prentice Hall
January 06, 2005
Mobile technology enables you to achieve extraordinary organizational agility and deliver unprecedented value to customers wherever they are. In Business Agility, Internet Week columnist Nicholas D. Evans draws upon real case studies to illuminate today's best mobile strategies and tactics, and offers a complete step-by-step blueprint for execution: planning, process models, architecture, implementation, and much more.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Emerging Technology, Mobility

Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology ...For Competitive Advantage
Financial Times / Prentice Hall
January 01, 2003

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Innovation

2 Book Awards
Award winning finalist in the Business-General category of 2018 International Book Awards
2018 International Book Awards
May 27, 2018
Mastering Digital Business: How Powerful Combinations of Disruptive Technologies are Enabling the Next Wave of Digital Transformation by Nicholas D. Evans
British Computer Society (BCS)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780173458

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

Bronze medalist in the Business-Technology category of the 2017 Axiom Business Book Awards
2017 Axiom Business Book Awards
February 22, 2017
Mastering Digital Business: How Powerful Combinations of Disruptive Technologies are Enabling the Next Wave of Digital Transformation, by Nicholas D. Evans (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780173458

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

2 Keynotes
Web Expo Forum, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Web Expo Forum
April 03, 2013
Conference Keynote on Social Business

Painel – Keynote speaker internacional
Palestra: Social Computing: chave para aumentar o valor e a organização de sua empresa.

A apresentação abordar a importância do negócio, as tendências de mercado e considerações do CIO, os principais cenários de negócios para Social Computing, perspectivas e recomendações e caso de sucesso de plataforma de colaboração e social computing “MySite”
Palestrante:
Nick Evans, Vice-presidente & Gerente Geral da Unisys para a área do CTO, responsável por liderar as áreas de Inovação e Estratégia de Soluções.

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Tags: Emerging Technology, Innovation, Social

IDC Consumerization Conference, London
IDC
June 09, 2011
Keynote Speaker – Disruptive Trends - "Embracing Disruptive Technologies for Business Advantage - Consumerisation at Unisys"

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Innovation

7 Media Interviews
Is thought leadership evaluation the answer to fake news and fake followers?
Jennifer Sanchis
August 29, 2018
The fake news and fake influencers crisis have left social media and giant tech companies under scrutiny. Actions have been taken to tackle authenticity issues with organisations attempting to monitor, measure and clean content from our digital platforms. Influencer marketing and advertising continue to fuel debates about digital integrity and online trust.

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Tags: Marketing, Social

Transforming Procurement for the Future
SAP Ariba
July 17, 2018
SAP Ariba Chief Digital Officer, Marcell Vollmer, talks to Nicholas Evans about the role of Procurement and its evolution from a back-office function to a key driver of growth within organizations.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Procurement

#TimTalk with Nick Evans @NicholasDEvans - Looking at Ways Of Mastering a Digital Business
Timothy Hughes via YouTube
July 16, 2018
Nick Evans @NicholasDEvans is a consultant and author of over 10 books, his latest "Mastering Digital Business" is published by BCS (The British Computer Society) and provides a strategic guide for the next wave of digital transformation. In this talk we discuss the 4 strategic themes of world-class digital businesses as well as Nick's case studies. Nick is also Founder and CEO of https://www.thinkers360.com/. Click or tap to follow the link. https://www.thinkers360.com/ @Thinkers360 which is the world’s first platform for thought leaders to curate their content, showcase their portfolios, share opportunities, and promote and advance their expertise.

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Tags: Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation

A look ahead at the Cloud offerings enterprises are most eager to adopt
CIO.com
July 10, 2018
Members of IDG’s Influencer Network foresee an array of ‘as-a-Service’ solutions

Nicholas Evans (@NicholasDEvans), founder of Thinkers360, likewise foresees two major categories of sought-after offerings.

“The first can be described as Capability-as-a-Service,” he said. “Offerings such as Blockchain-as-a-Service and AI-as-a-Service will be in increasing demand so that enterprises can rapidly access and build on top of these services to speed time to market for their own industry-specific use cases and applications. The second will be industry-focused platform business models (i.e., industry clouds such as manufacturing clouds) so enterprises can access ready-made, ecosystem-centric, highly advanced apps and services and immediately put them to work in their business.”

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Tags: AI, Blockchain, Cloud

IOT Recruiting Podcast - #4 Nicholas Evans - Digital Transformation Innovator
IoT Recruiting
March 08, 2018

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, IoT

Assessing the Value of Blockchain for Your Business
FinancialExecutives.org
August 09, 2017
With so much market attention and activity, blockchain is worthy of inclusion in your list of strategic focus areas.

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Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Digital Transformation

Stealth & Beyond (History Channel)
History Channel
January 01, 2004
History Channel interview based on "Military Gadgets" book (Financial Times Prentice Hall)

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Tags: Cybersecurity, Emerging Technology, Innovation

1 Patent
Electronic customer service and rating system and method
USPTO
June 20, 2006
A method and system of receiving, storing, and delivering customer comments, including qualitative and quantitative feedback, over a communications network, such as the Internet. Also, the present invention relates to a method and system of rating and ranking companies, including individual merchants and both buyers and sellers, and their products and services based upon comments received and then awarding the companies points based upon their rating.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Social

1 Speaking Engagement
Strategic Technology Trends for 2017
Tech Titans
February 03, 2017
The next wave of digital development that talks about platform business models, leading practices in corporate innovation and competitive advantage. Presented to the Tech Titans Board.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Innovation

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3 Article/Blogs
Taking a counterintuitive approach to business strategy and technology deployment
Thinkers360
November 12, 2018
As with other disruptive technologies such as augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, drones/UAVs and the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to transform business models, processes, products and services. According to McKinsey, it’s estimated that AI has the potential to deliver additional global economic activity of around $13 trillion by 2030, or about 16 percent higher cumulative GDP compared with today. This amounts to 1.2 percent additional GDP growth per year. Along with this growth comes the potential of a growing digital divide in business performance between early adopters and laggards or non-adopters of these emerging technologies. The question is how to get started with exploring technologies like AI for your business and how to quickly navigate from strategy to execution. This learning curve can be somewhat of an issue for CIOs and their teams because according to a recent Gartner survey, 37 percent of organizations are still looking to define their AI strategies, while 35 percent are struggling to identify suitable use cases. While conventional thinking is often to “get the business strategy sorted out before thinking about technology” and to “focus more on technology during pilot and implementation phases,” counter-intuitively, the reverse is often the best course of action. In a recent article for CIO.com, we explore this counter-intuitive approach in more detail with a two-pronged approach of developing the technology-informed business case and then the business-focused technology pilot: Taking a counterintuitive approach to business strategy and technology deployment.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology, Lean Startup

Towards balanced business models and the purpose-driven economy
Thinkers360
August 08, 2018
Many of today’s most powerful business models put the customer at the center and drive scale by offering an incredible value proposition that’s simply too good to resist. Amazon’s ecommerce model gives customers the ultimate in price, selection and availability. Uber’s ride service gives customers ease of use, convenience and real-time visibility. The list goes on. While this model has built many of the tech giants that we know today, some see growing inequality and a policy failure, and raise the question of whether we have the balance correct for the many stakeholders involved in these business ecosystems and for the broader economy. Is the exchange of value between all stakeholders proportionate or are these business models skewed in favor of customers and investors at the expense of employees, partners and the social good? Since we live on a planet with finite resources, considerable climate and pollution problems, and with AI continuing its inexorable journey of automation and optimization, it will be vital for corporate business models to be more equitable in the exchange of value for the benefit of society. As consumers, we have considerable power to drive change. We can choose to do business with companies that treat their employees fairly and have robust approaches to CSR in addition to working with those that offer the most compelling value propositions to us as consumers. The choice doesn’t have to be a binary selection of one or the other and the most innovative companies should be looking at how to deliver excellence on both fronts simultaneously. We can also choose to do business with companies that have a human-focused approach to implementing AI where they never lose sight of the fact that it’s their employees who are on the front lines of serving and supporting their customers. Rather than being in the people elimination business, companies should focus on how humans and machines can work together. As consumers, if we’re brave enough, we can force companies to change by voting with our wallets and taking our business elsewhere, but willing companies can play a large role as well. By focusing on purpose-driven as well as business-driven objectives and by focusing on a well-balanced approach to value exchange in their ecosystems, they can truly help make the world a better place.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Sustainability, Leadership

Instrumenting the human and socializing the machine
Thinkers360
July 10, 2018
When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines are encroaching upon human work activities and taking an ever larger percentage of this work away for good — from the dirty and dangerous, to the dull, to decisions. Fortunately, this doesn’t take into account the realm of possibilities created when work processes are reimagined in the context of mutual human-machine collaboration. By instrumenting the human and socializing the machine, we can redesign business processes to optimize the blend of human-machine participation and interaction — and complete tasks far more efficiently than either could individually. Machines are stepping out from behind the cage, and humans are stepping into their worlds. Since humans are driving the innovation around automation and robotics, we’re consciously (and perhaps unconsciously) carving out our future roles in the workplace side-by-side with machines. Rather than harsh boundaries between humans and machines, we’re creating a converged future where work processes are being optimized in two converging directions: instrumentation of human processes and socialization of machine processes, so the two can work in greater harmony together. Mapping the division of labor — human-machine collaboration If we analyze this collaboration, we can see several distinct classes of work activity where either machines augment human processes, humans augment machine processes, or both. To illustrate the types of collaboration that can occur, it’s useful to think of who performs the work in terms of human or machine, and whether the work is delivered physically or virtually. The human-machine scenarios include “physical-physical,” such as caregivers working with smart mobile robots to deliver medicines and supplies in hospitals; to “physical-virtual,” such as warehouse employees using smart glasses for navigation and picking instructions to boost productivity; to “virtual-physical,” such as doctors performing telepresence surgery; to “virtual-virtual,” such as call centers with human agents working in tandem with virtual cognitive agents. The key point is that it’s not just machines that are getting social; it’s that humans are getting instrumented as well, all of which amplifies the possibilities to optimize work activities. [ For the full article, please visit https://www.cio.com/article/2970083/emerging-technology/the-convergence-of-human-machine-work-processes.html ]

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Autonomous Vehicles

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