The AI of Mankind

Giselle shares her unique career journey, attributing her success to her people skills. She provides examples of how organizations accelerated their digital transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jarrod and Andrew, discuss their experiences with strange encounters and the importance of managing expectations and budgets. Jarrod also shares his thoughts on the future of AI and mentions a book on the topic that he enjoys, as well as a story about how his mentor helped him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jarrod and Andrew talk about how a data analyst is different from a data scientist and how a technical data scientist is different from a client-facing data scientist. Andrew shares a trend of companies seeking data strategists to build data roadmaps, and Jarrod emphasizes the need for companies to closely follow up on implementation to avoid a translation gap. Both agree on the importance of pati...

Jarrod continues his conversation, sharing digital and data transformation case studies, including one on helping the government with volunteer acquisition for non-profit organizations and another on a successful digital marketing campaign in a country of unrest. He also discusses a project that raises ethical questions about privacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A social media post connected Jarrod and Andrew. Jarrod shared his career backstory on how he became the Alice in wonderland. Ok yes, how he eventually become the Chief Data Scientist from the day he decided to study statistics back in the 2000s when no one has a clue that a job like data scientist will have been created. He talked about how he went down the rabbit hole and eventually landed himse...

Summary: Pip shared her view on the importance of having a process owner so that the desired outcome will be achieved. She explains why people don't like to talk about problems but why problem identification is important to digital transformation. We have to harness the knowledge of the people who are currently performing tasks. Pip also shares her career advice on how to build a career in AI, dig...

Summarize There's huge number of onboarding tools and they do very different things. Business leaders need to first start with the problem and be very specific about the problem.  AI may not solve the problem if people don't know where to look for the tools. HR is aware of bias and discrimination in artificial intelligence tools and they are rightly concerned about it. But what to do about it...

Summary: Pip shared her views on the importance of developing an ethics, data and technology charter for organizations to start digital transformation in the workplace. Weida says leaders should focus on communicating data, using data communication as a strategy. Having a charter of ethics for how companies use data and technology will be good for the company's long-term well-being. It's over and...

Summary: Pip shared her backstory of how she got into HRtech space. She believed that curiosity enable the need for developing a continuous learning journey that helped her to pivots multiple times in her career and keep her motivated to develop her career. Although companies have moved everything online with the tools that they had, Pip doesn’t believe that leaders have fully navigated the hybrid...

Summary: George's favorite books are Product Lead Growth, Measure what matters, and the Bible. His most commonly used app is Linkedin. He shares 4 key tips on building a successful career in the digital space. They are 1. Adopt a T-shaped approach to career planning, 2. Learn consistently 3. Try something, 4. Learn to do and accept failure as part of learning. He also talk about the importance of...

Summary: George shared his views on convincing management to start digital transformation using low code. You just have to justify that need for the application that should be with the board, but then you get five quotations and try to call vendors. Then it's all about speed and efficiency and how well you deliver. George pointed out that the financial service is the sector with the most complex n...

Summary: George shared his views on how low code can enable greater agility for iterating and building complex applications. Gartner predicted that by 2024, 65% of apps will be low code. George predicts that all apps in the next decade will become low code. Business leaders will find that the first specifications that come from who is conceptualizing the application are only 80% ready. When compan...

Summary: George shared his backstory of how he go from an engineer to a technopreneur. He shared his story in 3 parts. Covid-19 accelerated digital transformation. Companies realized that they cannot run old applications and at the same time their teams are spread out and hybrid and yet leaders got to deliver results. During this time, the tools have gotten better and definitely low code or no cod...

Summary: Reuben believes that employees will not join companies that don’t invest in them. Companies need to give time and be patient in order for people to learn and translate learning to problem-solving. Reuben mentioned that 2 projects per person are good rules of thumb to manage workload for projects but the timeline depends on the scale of the project. Companies that support the 80% rule are...

Summary: Reuben shared his analysis on the career paths on the future of chicken rice hawkers. Old hawkers can consider taking on more people-oriented jobs while young hawkers can join the AI hype. Reuben hopes that AI will make life better for mankind. AI singularity can help mankind move past the point of scarcity. The deepening of AI might enable a future of science fiction. The workload has ch...

Summary: Leadership is about taking ownership, figuring out what went wrong, offering possibilities, and getting buy-in from the stakeholders. Cost-benefit scalability analysis helps a company to evaluate the profitability and return of investment of doing digital transformation as the company scale this technological capability over more customers and over different locations. Reuben mentioned th...

Summary: Reuben shared his backstory of how he got into the digital AI space. He believed companies doing digital transformation should start with thinking about data storage solutions. Building a data lake also requires one to consider the scalability of the application. Data literacy is key to enabling companies to be successful with the usage of digital transformation and this is often neglecte...

Summary John believes that it’s easier to train a business guy, to learn a no-code or a low-code product to do AI automation than it is easier to hire a software engineer or AI engineer to learn the business. The easier path for the chicken rice hawker is the non-coder path where he goes to become a people manager. John liked to read fiction when it comes to digital transformation. So there are a...

Part 3 Podcast with John Ang Summary: John shared that there are 2 endpoints in deploying AI in the course of digital transformation. One is applying no code or low code tools to make an AI system simple and easy while the other is working out the complexity and nuances of enabling a smart system. John expects that the future of work means greater mental wellness and creativity because AI frees up...

Part 2 Podcast with John Ang Speaker: John Ang, Andrew Liew Summary: After John talked about the cost-benefit analysis of digital transforming an HR process with Andrew, John mentioned that AI can be applied to many other business functions like customer services, sales, and marketing so long the company’s staff can identify repetitive workflow and work processes. Concerns that employees are afrai...

Part 1 Podcast with John Ang Speaker: John Ang, Andrew Liew Summary: John Ang shared his backstory of how he got into AISG. He shared with the audience to see the challenges of digital transformation as opportunities to free up time on mundane repetitive tasks. He shared a story in which a company was able to achieve 12 to 13 times more productivity and free up so much time using digital transform...

Podcast with Jaya Part 4 Jaya shared with us that AI can remove repetitive work or augment productivity on repetitive work. He shared his story on how AIis being used to enhance learning for students in central Asia. The AI application in the education industry can not only help students, teachers, and principals but also parents. He shared some of the books that he read to guide his curiosity abo...

Podcast with Jaya Part 3 If companies need to enable digital transformation, they should focus on identifying areas where value can be created, to the linkages between how technology and the rest of the business complement. Jaya believed companies that adopt a decentralized approach first followed by developing a centralized team. This means bringing some of these experts, and eventually, these ex...

Podcast with Jaya Part 2 Jaya mentioned that managers and leaders develop a greater sense of mental health stress generated by pandemics and transition use of remote work strategies. Despite that, companies and organizations should adopt continuous digital transformation because of the following 3 advantages which are security enhancement, gaining customer advantage over others, and developing the...

Podcast with Jaya Part 1: Jaya mentioned that digital transformation is now necessary for business longevity. He coined servitization of the economy using digitization is going to be the trend. He also coined platformication. Remote collaboration is the way to go and companies need to adopt new tools regardless of how sophisticated they are. Facilitating workers to adopt new tools greatly support...