Professional Services
The future of work involves disruption. AI illuminates how to prepare
Written by Nicholas Sutcliffe | AI/Watson, Cloud, Professional Services
What is the future of global business in the digital age? That’s our focus at The Conference Board, a nonprofit member driven think tank. We collaborate with enterprise executives around the world to answer such questions so they can better serve society. Our research tells us that new digital technologies will disrupt the structure of ...read more
Hit by a hurricane? InsurBot can help with your claim
Written by Arun Bala and Anthony Peccerillo | AI/Watson, Insurance, Professional Services
Call centers at insurance companies face enormous pressure when natural disasters strike. Policyholders hurting from their losses need urgent help. But customer service agents can be overwhelmed by the spike in calls. That happened in recent years when a record number of hurricanes, floods and other disasters hit the United States. Policyholders were turned off ...read more
AI speeds document discovery, giving law firms a leg up
Written by James M. Lee | AI/Watson, Cloud, Professional Services
Here’s some food for thought on where technology fits into the legal profession. First, ask a hundred lawyers why they chose their calling. Then ask 100 clients how they want their law firms spending their time and racking up billable hours. The chances are that neither group mentioned the time-consuming drudgery of the early discovery, ...read more
AI helps companies meet new data protection challenges
Written by Karl-Oskar Brannstrom | AI/Watson, Government, Professional Services
In an ideal world, rules should be based on principles—on what’s right, not what’s easy. In Europe, a good example of that maxim in action is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a set of rules adopted in 2016 designed to protect privacy and personal data for citizens living in the European Union (EU) and ...read more
Applying commercial tech to the global health supply chain
Written by Jamey Butcher | Cloud, Government, Healthcare...
At Chemonics, we believe that those who have the least deserve our best. For more than 40 years, we’ve strived to help people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives. In 2015, we won the $9.5 billion USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project. Our mission was twofold. ...read more
Converting weather forecasts into smart business decisions with AI
Written by Brandon Rude | AI/Watson, Cloud, Professional Services...
Few would doubt the idea that weather has a big impact on business. Think of how something as basic as holiday retail spending can be sharply influenced by a blizzard or frigid temperatures. While those kinds of big, macro effects are easy to understand, the real nature of the relationship between weather and business is ...read more
How data can help improve response to natural disasters
Written by Jaethan Reichel | AI/Watson, Government, Professional Services...
Each time there’s a natural disaster, we see the same scenario: Everyone from national government leaders and the military to the small-town mayor and scores of volunteers with big hearts and expertise come together to respond to the event. All those people, at every level, need to communicate, need to share information and need to ...read more
How AI technology helps to boost the customer experience
Written by Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry and Samuel Irvine Casey | AI/Watson, Cloud, Consumer Products...
Companies use all kinds of tools to find out what customers think about their products and services so they can improve the overall customer experience (CX). They mine data from social media, conduct focus groups and surveys, and collect feedback from customer service reps. Eventually, all this information can reveal what customers are thinking and ...read more
High-tech AI empowers people with better language translations
Written by Danny May | AI/Watson, Consumer Products, Professional Services
While on a business trip to China, my passport was stolen. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I approached a policeman for help. The poor performance of the translation app I downloaded led to the policeman going for his gun and my colleague running away in fear. Instead of saying “hello, how are you”, ...read more
