AI and robots are not enough There is a growing school of thought that if you plaster enough AI across your business, it will henceforth be intelligent. And that is without any consideration of the data cesspit used to fuel the AI. Of course artificial is not the only form of intelligence business leaders have access to. However, Taylorism considers natural intelligence as problematic. Original thought would likely lead to process deviation and that can only result in ineffic

AiRMs race Here’s a quick acid-test to establish whether your AI investment to date is likely to yield value for your ecosystem: Do you have a Chief Information Officer in your leadership team? Does your CIO focus mainly on eliciting value from data or just on technology management? The answer to both needs to be ‘yes.’ Many organisations do not have a CIO in the top team, and even where they do, the CIO is often focused on tech matters. This is a problem. Firstly technology