Jan Bosch
One of the sayings that almost everyone in business has taken to heart is “data is the new oil” by Clive Humby. There are constant discussions about data ownership between end customers and product providers, as well as between OEMs and their suppliers. The first start-ups are now trying to advise companies on how to … Read more
One of the things that keep surprising me over and over again is how much effort companies spend on processing, cleaning, converting and preparing data. For the companies that I work with, the data science teams easily spend 90-95 percent of their time just preparing data for use in machine learning/deep learning deployments. This is … Read more
Virtually any company that I work with is exploring its data sets and business processes to identify opportunities for productivity improvements, higher accuracy or lower cost. The constant question that these companies struggle with is how can artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), support existing processes and ways of working. … Read more
In earlier posts (such as here), I have discussed different approaches to software development and one of the key models for this is the HoliDev model where we combine requirements driven development, outcome-driven development (e.g. A/B testing) and AI-driven development. In the figure below, the HoliDev model is shown graphically. It may easily seem that … Read more
As I’m spending an increasing amount of time in the AI field with a variety of companies, I’ve noticed an interesting misconception in the ML/DL space. Many have a tendency to focus on data sets, experimenting with different models using a specific set of data and, finally, deploying a model in a specific context. This … Read more
Data-driven decision making frequently requires experimentation as a mechanism to acquire the necessary data. When working with companies in transitioning from opinion-based to data-driven decision making, however, I frequently run into push back. The typical comment is that we already know the answers to the specific questions at hand and since we already know this … Read more
During the last week I was reflecting on the change processes ongoing in several of the companies that I work with. Although I don’t want to generalize too aggressively, it seems to me that most companies are on a similar journey. Starting from a situation where the key value proposition of the company was expressed … Read more
In last week’s article, I outlined the first phase of adopting machine & deep learning (ML/DL) which is concerned with experimentation and prototyping. In the figure below, we show the steps that companies typically evolve through while adopting AI,ML and DL solutions. As shown in the figure, the next step is the careful use of … Read more
This week I got the opportunity to speak at the initiative seminar organized by the Chalmers AI Research center (CHAIR). The key message in my presentation was that working with artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically machine & deep learning (ML/DL) constitutes a major software engineering challenge that is severely underestimated by companies that start to … Read more
As I have been writing about adopting data-driven decision making in the broad sense and data-driven development more narrowly over the last weeks, several people have reached out to me, discussed with me and more generally explored the subject with me. During these engagements, I realized that many products and services exist for the sole … Read more
