The 5th Industrial Revolution – Age of Intelligent Machines
LinkedIn
September 16, 2023
A lot of discussion on AI (Artificial Intelligence) lately, particularly Generative AI and its implications for business and society. Stepping back from the doomsday scenarios, let us look at things from the perspective of the 5th Industrial Revolution that we are witnessing.
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Tags: Customer Experience, Innovation, Leadership
DigiOpEx – Six Sigma Journey to Digital
LinkedIn
July 24, 2021
The Formal history of the “Six Sigma” movement started with Motorola in the 1980s. While Motorola started by applying the principles to manufactured product defect management, the concept was soon adopted in all of their business management processes.
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Tags: Innovation, Management, Leadership
Third Digital Horizon - Purpose Led Ecosystems
LinkedIn
May 16, 2021
The challenges unleashed by the COVID-19 crisis on the global social and business fabric are undeniable. One of the most severely hit sectors has been the commercial aviation industry. The resulting disruptions to the aerospace manufacturing value chain are profound and are being felt across extended supply chains as demand has dwindled. These disruptions are significant and protracted enough to make industry leaders re-evaluate the assumptions in their business plans and recalibrate the future, especially as cases go down, vaccines continue to be rolled out, and the world slowly returns to the new normal.
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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Ecosystems
Life Lessons from COVID
LinkedIn
May 02, 2021
It would be an understatement to say that the COVID pandemic has caused widespread disruptions to businesses and our personal lives! Whether we realize it or not, each one of us has a role to play individually in getting us all out of this pandemic in good shape collectively.
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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, COVID19
Not Invented Here
LinkedIn
January 14, 2021
During the early stages of an organization, often the founders and a few others drive the vision and growth of the nascent and early growth organization. Once the organization has reached a certain critical mass, more people need to be brought into the “management” ranks, and so on. Not all carry with them the founder’s mentality or the experience. Soon, the organization starts to sputter. A lot of focus and energy is spent internally, all the while the external environment continues to evolve. Soon the organization finds itself falling behind newer and smaller organizations with far fewer resources. Does this sound familiar?
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Tags: Innovation, Management, Leadership
Increasing Pace of Innovation: The Innovation Cube Model
AKGEC International Journal of Technology
June 03, 2019
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Tags: Business Strategy, Emerging Technology, Innovation
Privacy and the Cyber Threat Environment
LinkedIn
October 17, 2024
A person or a group of people engaged in cyber-criminal activities have been repeatedly cyberstalking me! Despite blocking their phone numbers as “Junk” and even reporting to law enforcement they keep popping up with new numbers and new names! They even created a very authentic-looking but fake LinkedIn profile. That was the start of this ongoing experience of getting cyberstalked! It is all too easy for cybercriminals!
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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Privacy
Industrial AI – Expectations to Implementation
LinkedIn
August 21, 2024
Back in 2012, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist was quoted as having said, “Software is eating the world”. He made a lot of hay investing in software companies. Then in 2019, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA took it further, “AI is eating the software that’s eating the world”. Recently NVIDIA crossed the $3 Trillion market cap, becoming the world's most valuable company.
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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Venture Capital
Sustainable AI Leadership
LinkedIn
April 25, 2024
With the growing adoption of AI, particularly Generative AI, its sustainability impact is becoming an increasing concern. Sustainability not only in the environmental sense but also as the Cambridge Dictionary defines “the quality of being able to continue over a while”
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Tags: Ecosystems, Innovation, Leadership
The Woodstock Week for Industrial AI
LinkedIn
March 23, 2024
The recently concluded NVIDIA’s GTC 2024 may be dubbed as the Woodstock for Industrial AI Era. Starting with the rock concert like Keynote by Founder/CEO Jensen Huang the event was packed with eye-opening advances bringing the science fiction of the Industrial AI age within grasp.
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Right Brain Leadership in the Age of Generative AI
LinkedIn
February 21, 2024
Over the past year, Generative AI (GenAI) has arisen to become a key discussion topic for a broad cross-section of leaders across diverse industries. Gartner placed GenAI on the peak of inflated expectations on their 2023 Hype cycle for emerging technologies.
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The Sustainable Aerospace Net-Zero Moonshot
LinkedIn
January 27, 2024
The Aviation industry has been committed to reducing its environmental footprint for several years. In 2008, it became one of the first industries to adopt a global, industry sector-wide climate action goal. More recently, in 2021, the global aviation industry took its climate commitment one step further by declaring that it will achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050!
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Democratization of AI meets Responsible AI
LinkedIn
December 28, 2023
With the exponential proliferation of Generative AI during 2023 we seem to be ever closer to the inflection point of mass-personalization of “AI” itself, the so-called Democratization of AI. Virtually everything we do today is touched by AI in some shape or form. Gone are the days when “AI” was something few researchers in chosen labs or larger companies could dabble with. Today any individual with access to the Internet can use AI for almost anything they can think of. In some ways, it is similar to when the internet itself became democratized with PCs and Browsers for anyone who could purchase or get access to it.
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Lessons in Leading through Uncertainty and Tech Disruption
LinkedIn
October 29, 2023
There are several examples of organizations that do great in good times but not always well in times of uncertainty and change. Yet, Jim Collins and Morten Hansen found some very interesting patterns about 10Xer companies that returned much greater shareholder returns (orders of magnitude higher) over the long run compared to their peers in the same industries and under similar circumstances of uncertainty and chaos.
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