How to Keep a Complex Solution From Going Off the Rails
Any organization with multiple customer-facing touchpoints is bound to have mounting challenges of complexity and efficiency. Canada’s most heavily used urban mass transit system is a case in point. The Toronto Transit Commission has four rapid transit lines, 75 stations, more than 149 bus routes, and 11 streetcar lines that transport more than 500 million […]
New Certifications to Help Close the Data Scientist Deficit
In this era of swelling data, the mining of insights to predict future outcomes with greater accuracy, to automate tasks, and to recommend actions based on that data is growing increasingly critical for organizations and businesses of all sizes. Such is the role of the data scientist, the profession the Harvard Business Review dubbed the […]
IBM at Davos: Business Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Business and government leaders, academics, and heads of international organizations from around the world are gathered in Davos, Switzerland, this week at the 49th annual World Economic Forum. IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty participated in a CEO panel discussion on Tuesday, January 22, on “Business Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” which explored […]
Automakers & the Complete Consumer Experience
In-car connectivity drives consumer choice. With the connected-car market expected by grow by 270 percent between now and 2022, consumer expectations are changing: Around half of consumers now expect to be able to access their smartphone apps through their vehicle’s digital interface. Combined with the evolution of autonomous vehicle technology, automakers face a major change: […]
IBM Marks More Than a Quarter Century of Patent Leadership with Record Year
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services has announced that for the 26th year, IBM is the top recipient of U.S. patents – a record 9,100, including more than 3,000 patents related to work in artificial intelligence, cloud and quantum computing. Our work in these areas, and others, began long before there were practical enterprise uses for the […]
Alleviating the Burden of Diabetes with AI
How many decisions do you make per day? From the minute you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep that same evening, you likely have to make endless choices: the route you drive to avoid traffic, what you should order for lunch, when to run errands, what type of exercise you want to […]