Jan Bosch
For decades now, I’ve been in workshops with a number of companies that seek to change some aspect of their business. Reflecting on the more recent workshops, however, made me recognize patterns that seem to reappear frequently or typically. As we all know, change is hard. For individuals and even more so for organizations. However, … Read more
During the last few weeks, I’ve worked with several companies and identified a pattern that, in hindsight, I have seen many times before: a team gets stuck midway a change process and refuses to let go of the old ways while adopting new ways of working. In that way, the organization gets the worst of … 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
Many companies that I work with are in the process of adopting continuous deployment of software – or DevOps. As part of that process, the notion of product variability comes up frequently because there often are multiple product variants out in the field. The software for each variant used to be created in a mostly … 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
Having spent quite a bit of this summer thinking about machine learning and artificial intelligence, it seems to me that there’s a very important transformation ongoing from a focus on the qualitative to a focus on the quantitative. The moment we start with A/B testing, deploying multi-armed bandits or training machine learning models, the very … Read more
During the summer, I spent a week at a summer school on deep learning (DL). There were several reasons to attend, but one was to simply learn more about this trending topic. In many ways, it was a wonderful, though humbling, experience as the field is progressing at a rate that’s simply phenomenal. There are … Read more
As we’re entering the vacation season, many of us are going to take a step back and reflect on where we are in our professional lives. To what extent is our work aligned with our personal goals, norms and values? Does it help us grow and develop as professionals and as individuals? Is the direction … Read more
