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People, Culture & Leadership

Adoption, change management, upskilling and the leadership side of AI transformation.

AI Strategy & ROI

Why AI Pilots Fail to Scale, and How Enterprises Get to ROI

AI leaders from Snowflake, Revefi and The Coca-Cola Company say most AI pilots stall for organizational reasons, not technical ones. They shared a three-part test for deciding what to scale, the infrastructure that holds up in production, and a 70-20-10 rule for where to spend effort.

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AI Strategy & ROI

Why AI Projects Fail: 4 Practical Fixes From Data Fluency to Trusted Data

Elder Research practitioners argued that AI projects stall on business basics, not models. They walked through four fixes: building leadership data and AI fluency, prioritizing projects by business value, replacing gut decisions with trusted data, and giving AI teams visibility into changes to their source data.

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AI Strategy & ROI

Why AI ROI Stalls: Eight Analytics Gaps Leaders Can Diagnose

Most organizations struggling for AI returns lack readiness, not technology, says Elder Research's Jennifer Schaff. Using a football analogy and client stories, she identifies eight gaps that quietly erode ROI, from strategy misalignment and fragmented analytics to failed adoption and weak data literacy.

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AI Strategy & ROI

Data Executives on AI: 5 Themes Heard at COLLIDE 2024

At COLLIDE 2024 in Atlanta, AI Connect co-founder Brian Mink outlined five themes from data executives: feeling behind on AI, board pressure, data strategy, human-centric AI and bias. His central point was that organizational practice has to catch up with the technology.

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AI Governance & Trust

GenAI Data Privacy and Governance: Risk Tiering and Ethics Councils

In a 2024 AI Connect webinar sponsored by Daugherty Business Solutions, leaders from Meta, ADP, Verizon, BBDO and Daugherty discussed generative AI privacy, bias and governance. They described privacy by design, cross-functional ethics councils, risk tiering of use cases and continuous monitoring.

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AI Use Cases & Applications

Machine Learning for Teens: Build a Logistic Regression Model

At the 2024 AI Connect K-12 Data Science Conference, Corey Wade of Berkeley Coding Academy coded a heart disease prediction model live in Google Colab. He explained logistic regression and the four core steps of building a machine learning model, then noted that a real project would hold out a test set.

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People, Culture & Leadership

Building a LinkedIn Personal Brand with AI: 8 Strategies

At the 2024 AI Connect K-12 Data Science Conference, Aditya Sharma, CEO of HiCounselor, outlined eight strategies for growing a LinkedIn personal brand, from picking a niche to commenting daily on influencers' posts. He paired each with AI tools such as Copilot, Phantom Buster and Sprout Social.

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People, Culture & Leadership

Is ChatGPT Cheating? Panel on GenAI in K-12 Education

At the fourth annual AI Connect K-12 Data Science Conference in 2024, a panel of educators and data professionals said ChatGPT is a tool, not automatically cheating. They urged schools to teach citation, critical thinking and human oversight while teachers use AI to reduce workload.

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AI Use Cases & Applications

Authentic Data in K-12: How DIFUSE Engaged High School Students

At the 2024 AI Connect K-12 Data Science Conference, Sheri Johnson of Essential Analysis Solutions and a Dartmouth College researcher described a high school lesson built on real COVID-19 and pollution data. Students liked presenting findings more than analyzing them, a result the presenters said points to teaching communication.

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AI Governance & Trust

AI in the Classroom: A 10-Point Bill of Rights for Schools

At the 2024 AI Connect K-12 Data Science Conference, Tracy Unified School District science teacher Michael Copass proposed 10 principles for AI in schools. They cover AI literacy, emotional deception, proof of effectiveness, transparent training data and parental opt-outs.

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Data & AI Infrastructure

Enterprise Architecture Lessons From 25 Years in Data: Vida Williams

At COLLIDE 2023 in Atlanta, Vida Williams of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority looked back on 25 years in data and enterprise architecture. She drew lessons on data modeling, executive attrition, data-driven culture and the slow ROI of data, then cautioned against tech for tech's sake in generative AI.

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AI Strategy & ROI

AI Hype to Real Results: Aflac, Carter's and DataRobot Panel

At COLLIDE 2023 in Atlanta, analytics leaders from Aflac, Carter's, DataRobot and RXA @ OneMagnify discussed why AI projects stall and how to choose ones that pay off. They described feasibility tests, governance and ethics, and what they expected from generative AI at the time.

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AI Strategy & ROI

Digital Perseverance: Data-Driven Innovation, per Redis Executive

In a session at the Data Science Innovators Conference 2023, Taimur Rashid of Redis argued that leaders should accelerate digital innovation while building systems that outlast them. He covered vector databases, customer examples from Capital One and Dick's Sporting Goods, and security, sustainability and inclusion.

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People, Culture & Leadership

Creativity in Data Science: A Southwest Analyst's Dog Button Board

In a session at the Data Science Innovators Conference 2023, Southwest Airlines analyst Mary Stimson argued that data science can be an art form and showed how curiosity, learning outside your domain and failing fast shaped a project that tracked dogs using communication buttons. She also described her team's 80/20 rule for innovation time.

By The AI Enterprise Magazine Team ·