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Struggling with Artificial Intelligence?
Wondering how Artificial Intelligence (AI) really works? Do you feel like it is just a black box which, when asked, magically comes up with an answer? Do you trust the so called “black box”? Recently this article appeared in the dutch newspaper The Telegraaf about Ethics and AI. It touched the discussion on how […]
Global C-suite Study: Mandate for Marketing
The current and future consumer expects a highly personalized experience. This is apparent from the recently published Global C-suite Study by IBM, including a number of relevant results for the Chief Marketing Officer. The combination of design thinking and emerging technology can help the CMO address changing customer needs and other market factors. The CMO […]
More than the sum of the silos
Modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, cloud, artificial intelligence and block chain are frequently viewed as independent entities. However, in combination the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts or in this case the sum of its silos. Collectively, they comprise the basis for infinite possibilities in the area […]
Cognitive manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Talk to any manufacturing executive and odds are they have heard of Industry 4.0. Originally coined in Germany through a technology project to computerize manufacturing, Industry 4.0 has now launched into a worldwide initiative to transform this sector. Japan and China have even coined their own ‘Industrial Value Chain Initiative’ and ‘Made in China 2025’ […]
The ecosystem platform as business model
The power of data driven business architectures Over the past generations, technology has gained greater importance in driving the success of organizations. In this, business architectures have evolved to support the leverage information technology can bring to optimize operations. Automation brought efficiency in back office processes, as well as enabling to scale individual business initiatives […]
Partnership creates intelligent cloud
The IT environment has increasingly evolved into a combination of diverse cloud services, complemented by on-premises systems. Software-driven intelligence and automation help to get the most out of such a hybrid landscape. This creates new opportunities for IT service providers. Take the Belgian NRB, for example, which offers customers a unique self-service cloud brokerage platform. […]
CFO – with the C of ‘Continuous’
A few forces that were at play these past few years have caused a perfect storm to drastically change the way finance departments go about their business. Disruption by versatile start-ups, the boom in financial and non-financial big data, and the refinedness of analytics tools have put much pressure on the classic annual report. So […]
A cloud with a silver lining for the future of finance
Migration of company data and business processes to the cloud is one of the megatrends of these past few years. Apart from radically reducing the total cost of ownership, the cloud also plays into the needs of a mobile workforce, and relieves some pressure from the IT departments, who are often suffering from a shortage […]
Quantum computing for everyone, in particular the director
IBM expects quantum computing to experience a real breakthrough in 2018 [link to the previous blog], impelled by a combination of rapidly growing processing capacity (to 50 qubits), new applications and new problem areas. This offers opportunities galore for companies and their managers. With our IBM Q-initiative, which is accessible to everyone, we are […]