By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax In their 2020 book Competing in the Age of AI , Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani make some bold predictions about the winning enterprises of the future. These organizations, which they refer to as “AI factories,” build a “virtuous cycle between user engagement, data collection, algorithm design, prediction, and improvement,” unlocking new paths to growth as software moves to the core of the enterprise. A little more than two years after the publication of their seminal work, data gathered from IT leaders and practitioners lend a lot of credence to Iansiti and Lakhani’s hypotheses — particularly those regarding the kind of technology architectures and strategies that engender success with AI. The AI factory Successful AI companies — think Apple, Netflix, Google, Uber, or FedEx — build innovative applications and, as they scale, start the flywheel of data, growth, and improvement spinning by gathering ever-growing amounts of real-time data, accessing it instantly, and tuning their predictions. User experiences become more personal and intuitive; key decisions can be made nearly instantaneously; and predictions can occur in real-time, empowering a business to improve outcomes in the moment. This unlocks new […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
