by Rob DiCesare | Sep 25, 2018
Capgemini reports that financial services firms worldwide are using automation to transform their operating models as they target process efficiency and reduced operational costs. The economics of this efficiency play are compelling: a 10–25% increase in cost savings,...
by Rob DiCesare | Mar 2, 2018
Gartner’s latest CIO Agenda Survey, released 2/13/18, asked CIOs if they had plans to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI). 46% responded that they have developed plans to do so. But only 4% said they had already implemented AI within their organizations. A further 20%...
by Rob DiCesare | Dec 22, 2017
I had the opportunity to meet with and provide a perspective on this topic to several dozen auditing and compliance professionals at a recent conference in Rochester, NY. Interest levels were very high, and leaders from several major firms continued our discussions...
by Rob DiCesare | Oct 12, 2017
Deploying AI and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks performed by knowledge workers, essentially building digital operations assistants, requires new types of data to be captured than we are accustomed to. For machine/deep learning algorithms to be trained...
by Rob DiCesare | Oct 3, 2017
The Voice Assistant Breakthrough With over 22 million combined units sold for Amazon’s Echo and Google Home, ‘smart speakers’ have certainly been a breakthrough in AI for the mainstream. These voice speakers are now quite adept at...