Epilogue
We have methodically walked you through the application of AI and analytics in business and provided the Roadmap to the Analytics Culture for enhanced business performance. While analytics projects have had an abysmal track record, it has been largely due to executives' failure to realize the value of AI and analytics, failure of clarity of vision to a Roadmap to implement analytics, or failure from misalignment/derailment from the Roadmap. These failures are choices that this book has identified and given you the knowledge to correct. As we have repeated, the road to AI-enabled analytics is not long, hard, or expensive—it is simply disciplined!
AI and analytics are not the end of the decision process: they are integral input that combines with human experience and intuition. Analytics provides the highest level of dispassionate and unbiased objectivity. When experience, intuition, and analytics agree, then the objective of the decision has a high probability of occurrence; and when any of these factors are misaligned, it should give pause for deeper thought. Decision-making based on empiricism and analytics is the appropriate balance.
AI is not going away—it is increasing throughout all aspects of life. We are at the dawn of a new century of technology, similar to the tectonic shifts in the twentieth century where society went from the horse and buggy to landing a man on the moon.
In 1900, 41% of the workforce was employed in agriculture. One hundred years later, ...
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