The AI-Powered Enterprise: Harness the Power of Ontologies to Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Profitable

by Seth Earley, Tom Davenport (Foreword by)

Overview

Learn how to develop and employ an ontology, the secret weapon for successfully using artificial intelligence to create a powerful competitive advantage in your business.

The AI-Powered Enterprise examines two fundamental questions: First, how will the future be different as a result of artificial intelligence? And second, what must companies do to stake their claim on that future?

When the Web came along in the mid-90s, it transformed the behavior of customers and remade whole industries. Now, as part of its promise to bring revolutionary change in untold ways to human activity, artificial intelligence—AI—is about to create another complete transformation in how companies create and deliver value to customers. But despite the billions spent so far on bots and other tools, AI continues to stumble. Why can't it magically use all the data organizations generate to make them run faster and better? Because something is missing.

AI works only when it understands the soul of the business. An ontology is a holistic digital model of every piece of information that matters to the business, from processes to products to people, and it's what makes the difference between the promise of AI and delivering on that promise.

Business leaders who want to catch the AI wave—rather than be crushed by it—need to read The AI-Powered Enterprise. The book is the first to combine a sophisticated explanation of how AI works with a practical approach to applying AI to the problems of business, from customer experience to business operations to product development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928055501
Publisher:	Wonderwell
Publication date:	04/28/2020
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Seth Earley is CEO of Earley Information Science (EIS), a leading consulting firm focused on organizing information for business impact, with expertise in knowledge strategy, data and information architecture, search-based applications, and information findability solutions. Earley is contributing editor of Data Analytics for IEEE’s IT Professional magazine. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization, with more than 400,000 members, and IT Professional is one of its flagship publications. He lives in Carlisle, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Chapter 1 The Promise and the Challenge of AI 1

Chapter 2 Building the Ontology 27

Chapter 3 Customer Experience: The Front Line of the Battle 50

Chapter 4 Marketing: At the Center of the Data Storm 76

Chapter 5 Making Ecommerce Smarter 87

Chapter 6 Sharpening the Sales Process 121

Chapter 7 Customer Service: Delivering Higher Quality at a Lower Cost 144

Chapter 8 Accelerating Employee Productivity 163

Chapter 9 Physical Meets Digital: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Logistics 189

Chapter 10 AI-Powered Strategy and Governance 215

Chapter 11 Leading into the Future 236

Glossary 273

Acknowledgments 287

Notes 290

Index 296

About the Author 305

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A great resource to separate the hype from the reality and a practical guide to achieve real business outcomes using AI technology."

—Peter N. Johnson, MetLife Fellow, SVP, MetLife

"Organizations seeking to realize the promises of artificial intelligence are finding that the journey to this nirvana involves more than just booking space on a new platform. The AI-Powered Enterprise shows that much more is required, including the oft-elusive robustness of process, data, and governance. Ignore this book at your own peril if you plan to undertake such a journey."

—Jim Gilligan, retired President and CEO, Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada

"If you’re serious about harnessing the power of AI in your business—and you should be—this book will show you how to make it an operational reality."

—Scott Brinker, VP Platform Ecosystem, HubSpot, and Editor, chiefmartec.com

"Seth has honed in on the methodology behind how AI impacts content. A must-read for any enterprise interested in what their content says about them—from a data miner to a taxonomist to a casual blogger. The clarity of the various aspects of content design is super impressive."

—Eeshita Grover, Director of Marketing, Cisco