Up to now, the global media & entertainment industry (M&E) has been lagging most other sectors in its adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). But our research shows that M&E companies are set to close the gap over the coming three years, as they ramp up their investments in AI and reap rising returns. The first steps? Getting a firm grip on data – the foundation of any successful AI strategy – and balancing technology spend with investments in AI skills.
Digital Government Transformation: The journey to government’s digital futureDeloitte United States
Deloitte’s global survey which includes responses from more than 1,200 government officials from over 70 countries and interviewed an additional 130 government leaders and digital experts to gain insight to the policies and practices affecting organizations’ “digital maturity”.
To read the full report, please visit: http://deloi.tt/1OcX9i3
Explore how different industries are embracing the utility of AI to create and deliver new value for their customers and organisation
* Discuss the state of maturity of AI across industries
* Get an appreciation of business posture to AI projects
We also review the utility of AI across several industries including:
* Healthcare
* Newsroom & Journalism
* Travel
* Finance
* Supply Chain / eCommerce / Retail
* Streaming & Gaming
* Transportation
* Logistics
* Manufacturing
* Agriculture
* Defense & Cybersecurity
Part of the What Matters in AI series as published on www.andremuscat.com
Using AI to Automate and Optimize Media and Entertainment Workloads – Antoine...Amazon Web Services
Find out how companies of all sizes are leveraging AWS services to increase agility, innovation, and to modernize media experiences. Learn how computer vision, object recognition, and conversation engines are changing how media companies engage with consumers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Job LossIkhlaq Sidhu
The arguments of job displacement, economic growth, and policy arguments related to artificial intelligence, data, algorithms, and automated technologies.
AI Basic, AI vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning, AI Applications, Top 50 AI Game Changer Solutions, Advanced Analytics, Conversational Bots, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Quality & Security, Retail, Social Impact, and Transportation & Logistics
The world is being transformed by new technologies, which are redefining customer expectations, enabling businesses to meet these new expectations, and changing
the way people live and work. Digital transformation, as this is commonly called, has immense potential to change consumer lives, create value for business and unlock
broader societal benefits.
The World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative in 2015, in collaboration with Accenture, to serve as the focal point for new opportunities and
themes arising from the latest developments in the digitalization of business and society. It supports the Forum’s broader activity around the theme of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Since its inception, the Initiative has analysed the impact of digital transformation across 13 industries and five cross-industry topics, to identify the
key themes that enable the value generated by digitalization to be captured for business and wider society. Drawing on these themes, we have developed a series of
imperatives for business and policy leaders that look to maximize the benefits of digitalization. We have engaged with more than 300 executives (both from leading
global firms and newer technology disruptors), government and policy leaders, and academics.
Every industry has its nuances and contextual differences, but they all share certain inhibitors to change. These include the innovator’s dilemma (the fear of
cannibalizing existing revenue models), low technology adoption rates across organizations, conservative organizational cultures, and regulatory issues. Business and
government leaders should continue to work towards addressing these challenges.
A notable outcome of this work is the development of our distinctive economic framework, which quantifies the impact of digitalization on industry and society. It can be
applied consistently at all levels of business and government to help unlock the estimated $100 trillion of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. We
have already started to leverage this framework for region-specific discussions with some governments.
We are confident that the findings from the Initiative will contribute to improving the state of the world through digital transformation, both for business and wider society.
Artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs and employmentafp11saurabhj
This presentation outlines the impact of AI on employment and jobs. which jobs will get obsolete faster and how the education system should change to reap the benefits of AI developments.
Digital Government Transformation: The journey to government’s digital futureDeloitte United States
Deloitte’s global survey which includes responses from more than 1,200 government officials from over 70 countries and interviewed an additional 130 government leaders and digital experts to gain insight to the policies and practices affecting organizations’ “digital maturity”.
To read the full report, please visit: http://deloi.tt/1OcX9i3
Explore how different industries are embracing the utility of AI to create and deliver new value for their customers and organisation
* Discuss the state of maturity of AI across industries
* Get an appreciation of business posture to AI projects
We also review the utility of AI across several industries including:
* Healthcare
* Newsroom & Journalism
* Travel
* Finance
* Supply Chain / eCommerce / Retail
* Streaming & Gaming
* Transportation
* Logistics
* Manufacturing
* Agriculture
* Defense & Cybersecurity
Part of the What Matters in AI series as published on www.andremuscat.com
Using AI to Automate and Optimize Media and Entertainment Workloads – Antoine...Amazon Web Services
Find out how companies of all sizes are leveraging AWS services to increase agility, innovation, and to modernize media experiences. Learn how computer vision, object recognition, and conversation engines are changing how media companies engage with consumers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Job LossIkhlaq Sidhu
The arguments of job displacement, economic growth, and policy arguments related to artificial intelligence, data, algorithms, and automated technologies.
AI Basic, AI vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning, AI Applications, Top 50 AI Game Changer Solutions, Advanced Analytics, Conversational Bots, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Quality & Security, Retail, Social Impact, and Transportation & Logistics
The world is being transformed by new technologies, which are redefining customer expectations, enabling businesses to meet these new expectations, and changing
the way people live and work. Digital transformation, as this is commonly called, has immense potential to change consumer lives, create value for business and unlock
broader societal benefits.
The World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative in 2015, in collaboration with Accenture, to serve as the focal point for new opportunities and
themes arising from the latest developments in the digitalization of business and society. It supports the Forum’s broader activity around the theme of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Since its inception, the Initiative has analysed the impact of digital transformation across 13 industries and five cross-industry topics, to identify the
key themes that enable the value generated by digitalization to be captured for business and wider society. Drawing on these themes, we have developed a series of
imperatives for business and policy leaders that look to maximize the benefits of digitalization. We have engaged with more than 300 executives (both from leading
global firms and newer technology disruptors), government and policy leaders, and academics.
Every industry has its nuances and contextual differences, but they all share certain inhibitors to change. These include the innovator’s dilemma (the fear of
cannibalizing existing revenue models), low technology adoption rates across organizations, conservative organizational cultures, and regulatory issues. Business and
government leaders should continue to work towards addressing these challenges.
A notable outcome of this work is the development of our distinctive economic framework, which quantifies the impact of digitalization on industry and society. It can be
applied consistently at all levels of business and government to help unlock the estimated $100 trillion of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. We
have already started to leverage this framework for region-specific discussions with some governments.
We are confident that the findings from the Initiative will contribute to improving the state of the world through digital transformation, both for business and wider society.
Artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs and employmentafp11saurabhj
This presentation outlines the impact of AI on employment and jobs. which jobs will get obsolete faster and how the education system should change to reap the benefits of AI developments.
Ron Tolido presented this at our Meetup on Sept. 16th, 2013.
With digital transformation, the use of digital technologies to radically improve the performance or reach of enterprises, companies can become more customer-centric, more valuable and more profitable. Ron Tolido (@rtolido) discusses digital maturity, digital governance and the role of the chief digital officer (CDO), design principles and a digital transformation roadmap.
This document discusses the digital transformation of high-tech industries. It notes that profit and market value are migrating away from hardware and components towards internet platforms. It identifies trends like artificial intelligence, internet of things, cloud computing and edge processing driving changes. Few product companies have fully transformed, with internet platform companies outpacing spending on research and development. The document outlines a framework for companies to transform their core business while growing new business models in areas like connected products, living products and services, and ecosystem platforms. It emphasizes the need for digital talent and factories to drive transformation.
Gartner provides webinars on various topics related to technology. This webinar discusses generative AI, which refers to AI techniques that can generate new unique artifacts like text, images, code, and more based on training data. The webinar covers several topics related to generative AI, including its use in novel molecule discovery, AI avatars, and automated content generation. It provides examples of how generative AI can benefit various industries and recommendations for organizations looking to utilize this emerging technology.
Our Industry X.0 demonstrations at Hannover Messe 2019 will showcase a five-step journey showing how our IX0 framework enables the transformation of entire industries, brought to life by real industry examples. Learn more.
Nonprofit reinvention in a time of unprecedented changeaccenture
Nonprofits face increasing pressures from rising demand, diversified revenue needs, rapid technology changes, and evolving constituent expectations. To address these challenges, leading nonprofits are transforming their strategies, improving constituent engagement, empowering their workforce, and leveraging data and analytics. The document discusses how organizations are reimagining their missions, digital experiences, people strategies, and use of insights to strengthen performance and impact.
Digital Asset Management initiatives can provide utilities several benefits:
1) They can decrease capital and operational costs by 10-20% through more predictable asset insights that reduce maintenance costs and allow for more targeted capital investments.
2) They provide greater transparency of asset health and risk, improving asset lifetime.
3) They optimize grid capacity by reducing asset down-time.
This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) including definitions, history, major branches, uses, advantages, and disadvantages. It discusses how AI aims to simulate human intelligence through machine learning, problem solving, and rational decision making. The history of AI is explored from early concepts in the 1940s-50s to modern applications. Major branches covered include robotics, data mining, medical diagnosis, and video games. Current and future uses of AI are seen in personal assistants, autonomous systems, speech/image recognition, and many other fields. Both advantages like efficiency and disadvantages like job loss are noted.
Digital transformation refers to the process of using digital technologies to transform business models and provide enhanced customer experiences. It involves realigning technology and business models to engage customers at every touchpoint. The goal is to make businesses relevant in a digital era by growing opportunities and profits efficiently. Key elements driving digital transformation include the growth of mobile devices, cloud computing, big data, APIs, and the internet of things. Disruptors are leading digital transformations through personalized decision making, real-time insight-driven processes, and ecosystem-based innovation. Barriers include organizational silos, complex business processes, security and data integration challenges, and lack of flexibility. Digital transformation is important for health records to provide benefits like improved care coordination and access to
This document discusses harnessing large language models (LLMs) for business applications. It provides an overview of how LLMs have progressed from foundational models to today's large language models. The document then discusses several potential use cases for LLMs in business, including for sales. It notes that LLMs have potential benefits but also risks regarding transparency, bias, accuracy and more. It provides a framework for assessing the feasibility of LLMs for different business uses. The document aims to help business leaders understand and evaluate using LLMs.
Monetization - The Right Business Model for Your Digital AssetsApigee | Google Cloud
As enterprises build and grow their mobile value chain with app, data and API technologies, digital assets become not only a competitive advantage, but also a source of revenue.
Join Anita Paul and Bryan Kirschner as they discuss the opportunities for value creation presented by APIs and data, share monetization models that apply to any industry, and explain how Apigee Monetization Services can help you deliver on the right business model for your digital assets.
We will discuss:
- The business context in the new digital world
- Business use cases and revenue opportunities
- How Apigee Monetization Services changes the game
The document describes an upcoming two-day workshop on how artificial intelligence is transforming business, hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry and facilitated by DataMites. The workshop will take place on February 20-21, 2019 in Chennai, India and will be presented by AI expert Ashok Kumar Adinarayanan. The document provides an agenda and overview of topics that will be covered, including the evolution and history of AI, machine learning applications, case studies of AI transforming industries like banking and healthcare.
Unlocking the Power of Generative AI An Executive's Guide.pdfPremNaraindas1
Generative AI is here, and it can revolutionize your business. With its powerful capabilities, this technology can help companies create more efficient processes, unlock new insights from data, and drive innovation. But how do you make the most of these opportunities?
This guide will provide you with the information and resources needed to understand the ins and outs of Generative AI, so you can make informed decisions and capitalize on the potential. It covers important topics such as strategies for leveraging large language models, optimizing MLOps processes, and best practices for building with Generative AI.
Our INTIENT Clinical suite of tools provides simplified collection, cleansing and management of clinical data, as well as faster, improved access through smart analytics and intelligent data flow. Visit https://accntu.re/2Eaov8N to learn more.
This talk overviews my background as a female data scientist, introduces many types of generative AI, discusses potential use cases, highlights the need for representation in generative AI, and showcases a few tools that currently exist.
How to set up an ai center of excellenceShranik Jain
Recently while exploring the field of "Artificial Intelligence in Organization context" able to create some content around "How Setting up an AI centre of excellence" can provide a leap in the dynamic environment of AI
#mba #organization #artificalintelligence
The document summarizes a presentation given by Prof. Dr. David Asirvatham on AI and future jobs. The presentation discusses how AI will impact various jobs and industries in the coming years and decades. It notes that many existing jobs will be automated or replaced by machines, but that AI will also create new types of jobs and work. The presentation emphasizes that acquiring new technological skills will be important for workers to adapt and ensure they are not left behind as AI disruption occurs. It concludes that AI will significantly change how people live and work, with humans needing to work together with machines.
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Chat GPT multitasks by picking up on and naturally expressing more than one aim at a time. Grab our professionally curated ChatGPT IT template. It includes an introduction, advantages, and features of OpenAIs ChatGPT model and discusses the price and availability of its enhanced version, called ChatGPT Pro. Our ChatGPT deck represents the working and architecture of ChatGPT technology, including a large language model and self-attention mechanism. Additionally, it demonstrates the various applications of ChatGPT in several domains, such as education, medicine, research, information technology, advertisement, banking, finance, etc. Our chatbot using GPT-3 PowerPoint presentation represents the three reinforcement learning from human feedback models supervised fine-tuning, reward, and reinforcement learning. Furthermore, it discusses integrating the ChatGPT model into web applications and best practices for successful deployment. Moreover, our ChatGPT integration into the web applications module contains sections about the impact of ChatGPT on social media and artificial intelligence tokens. Lastly, this chatbot using GPT-3 deck comprises a roadmap, a timeline, a 30-60-90 days plan, a checklist to integrate OpenAIs GPT-3 model into web applications and a case study on mental health and ChatGPT collaboration. Get access now.
This document provides an overview of Chat GPT, an AI tool launched in November 2022 by OpenAI. It discusses that Chat GPT allows for conversational dialogues and aims to give accurate answers while admitting mistakes. The document notes that Chat GPT was trained on huge amounts of online text data to generate human-like responses. Potential uses of Chat GPT discussed include powering virtual customer service agents, personal assistants, social media moderation, and improving machine translation.
COVID-19 has increased the need for intelligent decisioning through AI, but ROI is not guaranteed. Here's how to accelerate AI outcomes, according to our recent study.
Powered by AI: Communications and Marketing in the Algorithm AgeMSL
MSL partnered with research firm Toluna to survey 1,846 marketing and communications leaders from Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, UK and US. We partnered with our colleagues at sister agency Publicis.Sapient who are experts in counselling companies and brands on the AI revolution.
Ron Tolido presented this at our Meetup on Sept. 16th, 2013.
With digital transformation, the use of digital technologies to radically improve the performance or reach of enterprises, companies can become more customer-centric, more valuable and more profitable. Ron Tolido (@rtolido) discusses digital maturity, digital governance and the role of the chief digital officer (CDO), design principles and a digital transformation roadmap.
This document discusses the digital transformation of high-tech industries. It notes that profit and market value are migrating away from hardware and components towards internet platforms. It identifies trends like artificial intelligence, internet of things, cloud computing and edge processing driving changes. Few product companies have fully transformed, with internet platform companies outpacing spending on research and development. The document outlines a framework for companies to transform their core business while growing new business models in areas like connected products, living products and services, and ecosystem platforms. It emphasizes the need for digital talent and factories to drive transformation.
Gartner provides webinars on various topics related to technology. This webinar discusses generative AI, which refers to AI techniques that can generate new unique artifacts like text, images, code, and more based on training data. The webinar covers several topics related to generative AI, including its use in novel molecule discovery, AI avatars, and automated content generation. It provides examples of how generative AI can benefit various industries and recommendations for organizations looking to utilize this emerging technology.
Our Industry X.0 demonstrations at Hannover Messe 2019 will showcase a five-step journey showing how our IX0 framework enables the transformation of entire industries, brought to life by real industry examples. Learn more.
Nonprofit reinvention in a time of unprecedented changeaccenture
Nonprofits face increasing pressures from rising demand, diversified revenue needs, rapid technology changes, and evolving constituent expectations. To address these challenges, leading nonprofits are transforming their strategies, improving constituent engagement, empowering their workforce, and leveraging data and analytics. The document discusses how organizations are reimagining their missions, digital experiences, people strategies, and use of insights to strengthen performance and impact.
Digital Asset Management initiatives can provide utilities several benefits:
1) They can decrease capital and operational costs by 10-20% through more predictable asset insights that reduce maintenance costs and allow for more targeted capital investments.
2) They provide greater transparency of asset health and risk, improving asset lifetime.
3) They optimize grid capacity by reducing asset down-time.
This document provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) including definitions, history, major branches, uses, advantages, and disadvantages. It discusses how AI aims to simulate human intelligence through machine learning, problem solving, and rational decision making. The history of AI is explored from early concepts in the 1940s-50s to modern applications. Major branches covered include robotics, data mining, medical diagnosis, and video games. Current and future uses of AI are seen in personal assistants, autonomous systems, speech/image recognition, and many other fields. Both advantages like efficiency and disadvantages like job loss are noted.
Digital transformation refers to the process of using digital technologies to transform business models and provide enhanced customer experiences. It involves realigning technology and business models to engage customers at every touchpoint. The goal is to make businesses relevant in a digital era by growing opportunities and profits efficiently. Key elements driving digital transformation include the growth of mobile devices, cloud computing, big data, APIs, and the internet of things. Disruptors are leading digital transformations through personalized decision making, real-time insight-driven processes, and ecosystem-based innovation. Barriers include organizational silos, complex business processes, security and data integration challenges, and lack of flexibility. Digital transformation is important for health records to provide benefits like improved care coordination and access to
This document discusses harnessing large language models (LLMs) for business applications. It provides an overview of how LLMs have progressed from foundational models to today's large language models. The document then discusses several potential use cases for LLMs in business, including for sales. It notes that LLMs have potential benefits but also risks regarding transparency, bias, accuracy and more. It provides a framework for assessing the feasibility of LLMs for different business uses. The document aims to help business leaders understand and evaluate using LLMs.
Monetization - The Right Business Model for Your Digital AssetsApigee | Google Cloud
As enterprises build and grow their mobile value chain with app, data and API technologies, digital assets become not only a competitive advantage, but also a source of revenue.
Join Anita Paul and Bryan Kirschner as they discuss the opportunities for value creation presented by APIs and data, share monetization models that apply to any industry, and explain how Apigee Monetization Services can help you deliver on the right business model for your digital assets.
We will discuss:
- The business context in the new digital world
- Business use cases and revenue opportunities
- How Apigee Monetization Services changes the game
The document describes an upcoming two-day workshop on how artificial intelligence is transforming business, hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry and facilitated by DataMites. The workshop will take place on February 20-21, 2019 in Chennai, India and will be presented by AI expert Ashok Kumar Adinarayanan. The document provides an agenda and overview of topics that will be covered, including the evolution and history of AI, machine learning applications, case studies of AI transforming industries like banking and healthcare.
Unlocking the Power of Generative AI An Executive's Guide.pdfPremNaraindas1
Generative AI is here, and it can revolutionize your business. With its powerful capabilities, this technology can help companies create more efficient processes, unlock new insights from data, and drive innovation. But how do you make the most of these opportunities?
This guide will provide you with the information and resources needed to understand the ins and outs of Generative AI, so you can make informed decisions and capitalize on the potential. It covers important topics such as strategies for leveraging large language models, optimizing MLOps processes, and best practices for building with Generative AI.
Our INTIENT Clinical suite of tools provides simplified collection, cleansing and management of clinical data, as well as faster, improved access through smart analytics and intelligent data flow. Visit https://accntu.re/2Eaov8N to learn more.
This talk overviews my background as a female data scientist, introduces many types of generative AI, discusses potential use cases, highlights the need for representation in generative AI, and showcases a few tools that currently exist.
How to set up an ai center of excellenceShranik Jain
Recently while exploring the field of "Artificial Intelligence in Organization context" able to create some content around "How Setting up an AI centre of excellence" can provide a leap in the dynamic environment of AI
#mba #organization #artificalintelligence
The document summarizes a presentation given by Prof. Dr. David Asirvatham on AI and future jobs. The presentation discusses how AI will impact various jobs and industries in the coming years and decades. It notes that many existing jobs will be automated or replaced by machines, but that AI will also create new types of jobs and work. The presentation emphasizes that acquiring new technological skills will be important for workers to adapt and ensure they are not left behind as AI disruption occurs. It concludes that AI will significantly change how people live and work, with humans needing to work together with machines.
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Chat GPT multitasks by picking up on and naturally expressing more than one aim at a time. Grab our professionally curated ChatGPT IT template. It includes an introduction, advantages, and features of OpenAIs ChatGPT model and discusses the price and availability of its enhanced version, called ChatGPT Pro. Our ChatGPT deck represents the working and architecture of ChatGPT technology, including a large language model and self-attention mechanism. Additionally, it demonstrates the various applications of ChatGPT in several domains, such as education, medicine, research, information technology, advertisement, banking, finance, etc. Our chatbot using GPT-3 PowerPoint presentation represents the three reinforcement learning from human feedback models supervised fine-tuning, reward, and reinforcement learning. Furthermore, it discusses integrating the ChatGPT model into web applications and best practices for successful deployment. Moreover, our ChatGPT integration into the web applications module contains sections about the impact of ChatGPT on social media and artificial intelligence tokens. Lastly, this chatbot using GPT-3 deck comprises a roadmap, a timeline, a 30-60-90 days plan, a checklist to integrate OpenAIs GPT-3 model into web applications and a case study on mental health and ChatGPT collaboration. Get access now.
This document provides an overview of Chat GPT, an AI tool launched in November 2022 by OpenAI. It discusses that Chat GPT allows for conversational dialogues and aims to give accurate answers while admitting mistakes. The document notes that Chat GPT was trained on huge amounts of online text data to generate human-like responses. Potential uses of Chat GPT discussed include powering virtual customer service agents, personal assistants, social media moderation, and improving machine translation.
COVID-19 has increased the need for intelligent decisioning through AI, but ROI is not guaranteed. Here's how to accelerate AI outcomes, according to our recent study.
Powered by AI: Communications and Marketing in the Algorithm AgeMSL
MSL partnered with research firm Toluna to survey 1,846 marketing and communications leaders from Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, UK and US. We partnered with our colleagues at sister agency Publicis.Sapient who are experts in counselling companies and brands on the AI revolution.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a source of both huge excitement
and apprehension. What are the real opportunities and threats
for your business? Drawing on a detailed analysis of the business
impact of AI, we identify the most valuable commercial opening in
your market and how to take advantage of them.
Five Ways Media Companies Can Generate Value from AICognizant
With some up-front thinking, tight alignment with business objectives, strong data hygiene and careful project governance, content organizations can move AI from the sideline to the business core and deliver on the lofty expectations set for this still-maturing technology.
The document discusses the potential economic impact and value of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Some key points:
- Global GDP could be 14% higher by 2030 due to AI, equivalent to an additional $15.7 trillion in economic value. China and North America are expected to see the largest boosts of up to 26% and 14% respectively.
- The majority of GDP gains will come from increased productivity and consumption enabled by AI. Productivity gains will be driven by automation of processes and augmentation of human workers. Consumption gains will come from personalized and higher quality AI-enhanced products and services.
- Retail, financial services, and healthcare are identified as sectors that could see the biggest gains from AI
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services: From Nice to Have to Must HaveCognizant
AI is moving beyond experimentation to become a competitive differentiator in financial services — delivering a hyper-personalized customer experience, improving decision-making and boosting operational efficiency, our recent primary research reveals. Yet, many financial services companies will need to accelerate their efforts to infuse AI across the value chain while preparing for the next generation of evolutionary neural network technologies to keep pace with more forward-thinking players.
The Work Ahead: The Second Half of the Chessboard: Media & Entertainment Is N...Cognizant
Although the M&E industry was among the first to digitize its products and services, it can’t stop there. Our study reveals they need to extend digital innovations from the front office into the middle and back office in order to ensure relevance far into the future.
[Article] Artificial Intelligence: Changing Business Amidst COVIDBiswadeep Ghosh Hazra
An article on Artificial Intelligence: Changing Business Amidst COVID which is on the subject of AI Adoption before and during COVID-19.
The article is divided into the following sections-
1) Setting the context
2) Diving deeper
3) AI Adoption amidst COVID-19
4) References
The document discusses how IT infrastructure is changing to adapt to new business priorities in the digital age. It introduces the "HEROES" framework for the future of IT infrastructure, which focuses on hybrid cloud architectures, edge computing, robotic process automation, obsolescence of old IT, and enterprise security. Artificial intelligence will be integrated across all areas of the framework and fundamentally change how organizations procure and consume IT infrastructure over the next five years.
AI adoption is widespread, with 88% of businesses now using some form of AI. Spending on AI is also increasing, with over half of businesses expecting to spend more on AI-driven marketing campaigns in the next year. AI is transforming industries and how companies operate. While economic uncertainties remain, businesses are experimenting with AI and investing in the future.
GroupM's - The Next 10: Artificial IntelligenceSocial Samosa
GroupM published a new study, The Next 10: Artificial Intelligence. The study examines how the media landscape and consumer behaviour will shift over the coming decade, in large part due to AI-enabled advertising
AI and Marketing: Robot-proofing Your JobCall Sumo
Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides marketers with deep knowledge of consumer, clients and delivers the right message to the right person at the right time. Here are more depth information how AC affects on Marketing.
Adstream emea ai and the future of television advertising - e bookDigital Strategist
"The television and TV advertising industries are being radically reshaped by digitisation and the emergence of video streaming technologies. We take a look at how you can utilise these emerging technologies to maximise the impact of your advertising spend."
How Companies Can Move AI from Labs to the Business CoreCognizant
APAC and Middle East organisations have big expectations from AI, but they’re only just getting started. To realise the full potential of AI-led innovation, they must rapidly, but smartly, scale their deployments and embrace a strong ethical foundation, keeping a close eye on the human implications and cultural changes required to convert machine intelligence from lofty concept to business reality.
Get Ready: AI Is Grown Up and Ready for BusinessCognizant
Despite great enthusiasm for AI, full-blown deployments remain the exception rather than the rule across businesses in the U.S. and Europe, according to our recent research. Businesses can turn the tide by honing their AI strategies, maintaining a human-centric approach, developing governance structures and ensuring AI applications are built on an ethical foundation.
Beyond the Buzz: How Sectors as Diverse as Logistics, Finance, Healthcare & M...Leah Kinthaert
In their report, “Predictions 2017: Artificial Intelligence Will Drive The Insights Revolution”, Forrester Research predicts that “insights-driven businesses will steal $1.2 trillion per annum from their less-informed peers by 2020”. Statista tells us that this year “the global AI market is expected to be worth approximately 7,35 billion U.S. dollars.”
I compiled a “best of” e-book for Informa Connect Learning from interviews with 34 pioneers on the topic of AI in marketing, healthcare, finance and maritime/logistics. From Wolfgang Lehmacher, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries of the World Economic Forum to Forbes 30 under 30 Domeyard Hedge Fund Partner, Christina Qi, the Global No. 1 Fintech, AI,
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With enterprises putting digital at the core of their transformation, our annual Data Science & AI Trends Report explores the key strategic shifts enterprises will make to stay intelligent and agile going into 2019. The year was marked by a series of technological advances, including advances in AI, deep learning, machine learning, hybrid cloud architecture, edge computing (with data moving away to edge data centres), robotic process automation, a spurt of virtual assistants, advancements in autonomous tech and IoT.
Data Science & AI Trends 2019 By AIM & AnalytixLabsRicha Bhatia
This document discusses 10 data science and AI trends to watch for in India in 2019. It begins with an executive summary noting that enterprises are putting digital technologies like AI, machine learning, and analytics at the core of their transformations. It then discusses each of the 10 trends in more detail, with quotes from experts about how each trend will impact industries and businesses. The trends include more industries utilizing analytics and AI, deploying models for real-time use cases, using data analysis for informed customer engagement, increasing investment in data infrastructure, analytics becoming more pervasive, the need for greater collaboration, personalized products, making analytics more human-centric, replacing centralized data with a single customer view, and the growth of voice and AI assistants.
Using Adaptive Scrum to Tame Process Reverse Engineering in Data Analytics Pr...Cognizant
Organizations rely on analytics to make intelligent decisions and improve business performance, which sometimes requires reproducing business processes from a legacy application to a digital-native state to reduce the functional, technical and operational debts. Adaptive Scrum can reduce the complexity of the reproduction process iteratively as well as provide transparency in data analytics porojects.
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AI in Media & Entertainment: Starting the Journey to Value
1. AI in Media &
Entertainment:
Starting the Journey
to Value
Up to now, the global media & entertainment industry (M&E)
has been lagging most other sectors in its adoption of artificial
intelligence (AI). But our research shows that M&E companies
are set to close the gap over the coming three years, as they
ramp up their investments in AI and reap rising returns. The
first steps? Getting a firm grip on data — the foundation of any
successful AI strategy — and balancing technology spend with
investments in AI skills.
June 2021
2. Executive Summary
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Rising adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a key
feature of the business landscape for the past few years. Now
the COVID-19 crisis has further strengthened the case for AI by
underlining the urgent need for fast, intelligent decision-making.
But what’s the current state of play on AI adoption? And how is
that set to change in the next three years?
To find out,we’ve teamed up with ESI ThoughtLab to conduct a global study of 1,200
organisations including 96 media & entertainment (M&E) companies. By drilling down into the
findings,we’ve gained unprecedented insights into M&E companies’ current strategies and
future aspirations for AI, and into what they need to do to turn those aspirations into reality.
What did our research tell us? The top line is that the industry has a long way to go to realise
the full benefits of AI. Currently, M&E companies both globally and in Europe are in the early
stages of AI adoption and maturity,well behind industries like automotive, banking,technology
and healthcare. Globally, just 1% of M&E businesses qualify as “AI leaders” against 15% across
all industries — and within Europe none make that category. It’s hardly surprising then that
the proportion of M&E companies that rate AI as being of high importance to their future is
relatively low compared to other sectors (see Figure 1).
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Investment
Media
Energy
Consumer/retail
Insurance
All industries
Manufacturing
Telecom
Life sciences
Healthcare
Technology
Banks
Automotive
64%
77%
74%
66%
66%
64%
63%
60%
59%
52%
42%
75%
75%
Figure 1: M&E respondents’ current view of AI’s importance.
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Looking to catch up
That said,the fact remains that the majority of the M&E companies we surveyed do believe that
AI is of high importance.And while most of the industry is currently in the early stages of AI
adoption, such as business case development or piloting, our research suggests the picture will
be dramatically different in three years’time.The findings indicate a fourfold increase globally and
a 30% increase in Europe in the number of M&E companies that consider themselves to be in the
mature stages of AI adoption— namely well-advanced in using AI to transform their businesses.
The competitive pressures in M&E intensify
What lies behind this concerted move to embrace AI? Media organisations have historically,
operated as business-to-business (B2B) rather than business-to-consumer (B2C) operations. One
consequence was that unless they were vertically integrated with a platform,they did not own
customer data firsthand. Instead, data was aggregated and interpreted for them by third parties.
As a result,without strong technology advocates or disruptive voices at senior levels, M&E
companies did not invest significantly in AI. In any case, lacking direct control over their end users’
experience,they could not have acted easily on many of the insights gained from it.
And the industry’s high barriers to entry meant it was protected from competitive pressures,
meaning M&E organisations were making enough money without AI and — until Netflix emerged
—were shielded from disruption.
All of this is now changing, with M&E companies facing ever-intensifying competition and
increasingly getting their hands on end-user data through direct-to-consumer offerings. And
what do they need to maximise the value of that data? AI.
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Data management, RPA and chatbots lead the way
As M&E companies map out their route to AI maturity, they’re targeting
investment at a select group of technology areas. Our research shows
that data management, robotic process automation (RPA) and digital
assistants/chatbots — essentially basic AI — are at the top of their
technology agendas both today and in the near future, with most of their
AI-related budget allocated to these areas.
Interestingly, most are not considering the use of more advanced AI technologies like neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP) or deep learning either now or in the near future. Based on our global cross-industry
survey, we know that this stance is typical of companies in the early stages of AI adoption. Organisations
become much more likely to embrace advanced AI technologies as their AI adoption expands and its returns
start to increase.
Building the business case for AI
The M&E industry’s historically low levels of competitive pressure and lack of directly owned data help to
explain why its uptake of AI has been so low until now — and how tricky it has been to build a solid business
case for investing in it. But the sector is now at an inflection point. Given the huge amounts of data to
come, media organisations cannot afford to take their eye off the ball, and must stay focused on building AI
capabilities to make the most of that data.
However, it takes time to reach maturity — a business can’t expect to become an expert in the application
of AI overnight. To compete effectively in the future, it’s imperative to start the journey now. Imagine a world
where your competitors are able to act in an instant and automated way at a consumer-by-consumer level,
feeding each individual with the perfect blend of content and personally targeted and tailored advertising,
while you are still working on large audience segments and trying to guess what each one wants to watch. Fail
to start investing in AI now, and that’s the future you could be looking at: one to be avoided if at all possible.
5. Helping a global TV and media
leader use AI to boost premium
advertising revenues
Our client wanted to offer advertisers on its video on demand (VOD) platform a better
experience and higher engagement rates, in turn driving improved return on investment
(ROI) and increased ad spend while avoiding under- or over-selling. To demonstrate how it
could do this, Cognizant ran a proof-of-concept (POC) using machine learning to forecast
ad impressions around certain program types and times.
As our input we used 24 months of existing raw viewing information. After extracting key
event data — views, engagements and clicks — we created and applied models to identify
patterns in viewing and ad engagement, by correlating the event data with historical data
(such as day of the week) and contextual data (such as video asset lifetime).
After six weeks the client was able to predict ad impressions with almost 90% accuracy on
a single drama series. After a phased scale-up across more genres and channels where
we explored ad impression patterns on just over 50 comedy series, an overall average
model accuracy of up to about 90% was still achievable. The POC confirmed that data
modernisation and AI can directly improve operational efficiency, monetisation and
customer experience in TV advertising.
Quick Take
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Joining the fast track
To build a stronger business case for AI, M&E organisations need to assess their current situation vis-à-
vis competitors, draw up a roadmap, and develop an understanding of how to extract data from products
and use it to drive business processes and strategic decisions. With the exception of the largest media
conglomerates, building the necessary capabilities purely in-house will be too slow-paced and costly and not
sufficiently innovative. Also, it’s very difficult to recruit people with the required skills and have sufficient scale
to give them support and an attractive career path. All of this points to partnerships and outsourcing as the
optimal approach.
Outsourcing on the rise
M&E companies fully understand the huge commitment of time and
expense required to build and run AI capabilities internally — and are
looking outside for help. Almost two-thirds of respondents already
outsource at least three or four areas related to AI. And outsourcing is
set to increase further over the next three years, with areas like model
value measurement and model scoping in the forefront (see Figure 2).
Companies also see outsourcing and/or partnerships with technology
companies as a way to increase AI capabilities and skills for their
organisation.
20%
32%
33%
15%
Beginner
Developing
plans and
building internal
support for AI
Leader
Widely using AI
to generate
many benefits
and transform
business
Implementer
Starting to pilot
AI and use a
few simple
applications
Advancer
Using AI in key
parts of the
business and
seeing gains
Figure 2: M&E respondents’ areas for outsourcing today and in three years’ time.
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Today’s fiercely competitive
recruitment market can
make it prohibitive to build
an AI competency in-house,
meaning collaborating
externally is often a better
route.
8. How StoryFit used AI to zoom
in on female representation
in movies
It feels like women are getting a bigger say in the movies — including more lead roles and more
compelling characters. But is this true? AI startup StoryFit set out to find the real story, by using
its technology to analyse female representation in the nominees for the 2019 Oscars. The project
proved to be a powerful case study of AI’s relevance in M&E.
By applying its AI-driven software to scrutinise the roles and characters played by different
genders in the Oscar nominees, and comparing the findings with its previous analysis of some
30,000 film scripts between 1930 and 2018, StoryFit generated unprecedented insights into
women’s evolving status in the movies.
What did its AI reveal?
First, as suspected, little has changed since the 1940s; men speak more and have more turns to
speak than women do in films.
Year % female dialogue
(words spoken)
% male dialogue
(words spoken)
Best/Worst female dialogue representation
2019 31% 68%
Highest: The Favourite (73%) and Roma (63%)
Lowest: Bohemian Rhapsody (7%)
2018 31% 67%
Highest: Lady Bird (80%)
Lowest: Dunkirk (1%)
2017 29% 70%
Highest: La La Land (50%)
Hidden Figures (49%)
Lowest: Hacksaw Ridge (8%)
However, digging deeper into the data, there were noticeable changes. The range of female
emotions being shown had increased markedly as historically female characters tended to stick
to non-threatening feelings like joy and sadness, yet fear and disgust dominated this year. Female
characters also used more forceful language. Among other things, female relationships far
outweighed male in the 2019 slate of movies. And that is a huge step forward from the traditional
“Bechdel Test” based on whether two women talk to each other about something other than a man.
The results show a promising trend towards better female characters and female-led stories, even
without the screen time. To hear the whole story from StoryFit itself, click here.
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Quick Take
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Reasons to collaborate
As we highlighted above, today’s fiercely competitive recruitment market can make it prohibitive to build an
AI competency in-house, meaning collaborating externally is often a better route. The options include working
with professional and technical services providers — who in turn partner with leading global platforms like
Google and Microsoft, as well as with innovative niche AI specialists such as Hive and StoryFit.
The need for training in AI skills is a further reason to collaborate with a partner for the AI journey. Training
is tricky to scale in any industry: take hospitals, which often lack the capacity to carry the burden of training
doctors, and don’t have sufficient volume of patients requiring each specialism. Many M&E companies are in
a similar position. But larger professional services providers specialising in technology can deliver a ready and
sustainable supply of talent that keeps pace with the rapidly evolving technology landscape, while also sharing
lessons learned from client work in other industries.
Laying the data foundations for AI
Our research confirms that as well as lagging behind other industries
in AI, M&E is also off the pace in terms of data modernisation practices.
Currently, the sectors with the highest percentage of companies
categorised as AI leaders are the automotive, healthcare and banking
industries — and it’s no coincidence that these industries are also very
strong in data modernisation.
Take automotive. While most people associate AI in the auto industry with self-driving cars, automakers’
use of AI is actually very wide-ranging, across areas including driver-assist features, connected vehicles,
manufacturing, quality control and product design. General Motors, for example, is using AI-driven
“generative design” to shave unnecessary weight from car components, while Volkswagen is increasing
the precision of its market forecasts with AI analytics, pulling in data like household income and
customer preferences.
Targeting AI maturity
By their nature, industries like automotive had a head start over M&E in the move to AI. These sectors typically
started with more binary “cause-and-effect” data points to collect and manage from sensors detecting things
like temperature, speed and engine performance, where a particular piece of data might trigger a specific
action. That provided a basis for them to grow their AI maturity over time to tackle increasingly complex use
cases. By contrast, the starting point for M&E data is already relatively complex and nuanced, ranging across
emotional and psychological issues such as how to understand, influence and predict consumer behavior.
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This difference helps to explain why M&E companies have been relatively slow starters in AI. But they’re now
looking to reclaim the lost ground. As Figure 3 shows, the high proportion of M&E businesses who expect to
be at a maturing or advanced stage of AI adoption in three years’ time points to a massive leap forward in AI
capabilities.
A dramatic ramping-up of AI capabilities is a wise move. The move from B2B to B2C business models
— powered by increasing direct-to-consumer delivery and consumption — is a seismic shift for media
organisations. It means they have to deal with enormous amounts of data, certainly many magnitudes greater
than ever before. They have an absolute need to analyse, understand and make decisions based on this data if
they’re to survive, compete and transform for the digital era.
This often means removing data siloes. Many media organisations still have multiple separate systems each
containing one part of the overall data picture. Usually these systems were built on a proprietary basis and
are challenging to integrate with or extract data from — an issue that applies especially to systems relating
to content and rights or to scheduling and media planning. Such a fragmented approach provides a poor
starting point for higher-level AI activities.
0 20 40 60 80 100
Automotive
Healthcare
Banks
Telecoms
Manufacturing
All industries
Life sciences
Technology
Energy and utilities
Consumer and retail
Media and entertainment
Insurance
Investment management 327%
306%
210%
136%
119%
117%
97%
84%
57%
52%
50%
273%
235%
% change
Now
In three years
Figure 3: Percentage of businesses expecting to reach advanced levels of AI maturity in three years’ time
Reaching advanced levels of AI maturity
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How to start?
Many organisations we talk to get stuck on the problem of when to invest in data modernisation.The quandary
is, should I modernise my entire data architecture first,then I’ll have the foundation to build AI models quickly
and easily? Or should I just get started with a model and only modernise the data I really need to?
The problem with the first approach is that you may end up getting fired. You will have a wonderful data
platform but will have delivered no value to the business. Conversely, if you take the latter approach and
modernise just what you need to, you will spend much more overall and have to do a lot of re-work, as ideas
you have later might be incompatible with the data architectures you initially designed.
We suggest a third option: invest in a strategy for your target data architecture, based on proven models and
accelerators that will help you avoid common pitfalls or dead ends — but then align implementation of your
target architecture to projects that create business value. This way you can limit re-work and get to results fast.
Modernising data = AI maturity
Our research reveals a strong link between high AI maturity and effective data management, especially
among companies that identify as AI leaders. So improving data management — or, as we term it,
“modernising data”— needs to be a top area of focus for M&E companies to truly unlock the potential of AI.
The technological bottom line is that if a media company wants to invest in AI and deploy it effectively, data is
the foundation. Take Universal music, which gets a billion data points per day from Spotify. Managing all that
data — and keeping track of valuable insights into songs added and which user listens to what music and
when — are impossible without AI.
As an organisation modernises its data and advances its AI capabilities, there is a natural evolution in terms of
the buy-in. Once an M&E business is gathering and interpreting huge amounts of data, the business case for
AI becomes much easier, as there is no other way to take advantage or make sense of it. Cognizant can help
your business modernise its data and build a solid platform to support AI — opening the way to a vast array of
use cases, many of them as yet unthought of.
12. Reimagining Digital
Content Services
We worked with a leading global K-12 publisher to accelerate its push toward digital content
creation and distribution, using a modern digital platform. The publisher’s existing content
operating model was distributed in silos globally, leading to long print cycles of 18 to 24
months.
With increased competition from digitally-savvy players, the company’s operations team
couldn’t keep pace with user demand for fresh content. Content reuse through multiple
delivery platforms — print, web and mobile — was seen as a way to satisfy customers while
reducing time to market.
Meanwhile, the company needed to manage a global vendor network of 170 content
producers, adding to the stress on operations and business competitiveness. With content
stored across 170 systems, it was difficult to derive optimal value from these assets through
content reuse, and the organization was unable to take advantage of a greater collaborative
opportunity to create content through enhanced workflows.
By applying our observations of industry trends and a deep understanding of the business,
we developed a solution premised on the following digital principles to produce and
manage content:
❙ Content is currency, and must be managed like treasury operations.
❙ Exemplary customer experience is a non-negotiable prerequisite.
› Personalization is a must-have.
– Digitally-instrumented content operations can, and must, impact revenues.
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Helping a leading media
intelligence company apply
AI to boost speed and efficiency
while reducing cost
One of the world’s top media research, data and insights organisations needed to meet
customers’ rising demand for real-time intelligence and modern, millennial-friendly
features. To do this, it decided to revamp its applications landscape — which included 600+
applications across 36 countries — and build a global, scalable platform that would harness
AI and automation to drive process efficiencies and faster turnaround.
In light of our deep domain expertise in data management and AI and strong track record
as a single partner across IT and business process services, the company chose Cognizant
to help build the solution. Applying our proven approach of “integrated transformation,” we
began by engaging with the client across technology, innovation and operations to gain a
holistic “T-shaped view” of its needs.
We then used this big-picture perspective to co-innovate to drive real-time data solutions
while realising process efficiencies and cost savings. We also set up an AI Prototype Factory
to identify use cases for quick turnaround. Today, the client is realising up to 25% cost
savings and 40% productivity improvements while saving 40% to 60% of human effort
through automated AI solutions. The result? It’s serving its customers better at lower cost.
And leading innovation in its industry.
Quick Take
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Investing in people and processes — as well as data
and tech
As is typical of organisations in the early stages of AI adoption, companies in the M&E industry are still facing
challenges with IT architecture, data management and overall project management for AI projects. Data
sources for AI applications are also expected to expand over the next three years from today’s images and
text data to include moving video and high-dimensional data.
Most of the companies in our survey are intent on increasing their budget spend on AI over the next three
years, with the majority of the funding going into technology rather than people or processes. Based on our
global findings, this is once again indicative of “AI beginners” versus “AI leaders”: as companies’ AI maturity
grows, the balance of their AI investments tend to shift towards people skills and business transformation.
It’s highly significant that organisations need the brains, culture and transformational aspects as well as the
technology to progress up the AI maturity curve. In fact, more value appears to be driven by the people and
the culture than by the technology itself.
This is underlined by the fact that the companies emerging as AI leaders in our survey were the ones who
knew how to try out many things rapidly and cheaply but critically, and also knew how to move from trial to
production if appropriate. They did this by embedding technologists and data scientists within business
teams. Doing this not only gives the technologists and scientists visibility of the business challenges and the
ability to perceive the impact and value that is on the table, but also enables them to build the necessary
relationships with the business teams who will apply, help to implement and then scale out the solutions.
A related consideration is that for technology to successfully transform your business, your people, leaders,
structures and values must all be aligned. This means that organisations need to optimise their culture,
leadership and structures to enable successful use of AI and automation. The future of work involves human
employees working side-by-side with robots, intelligent machines powered by AI, automation and robotics.
We’ve been working with forward-thinking media organisations for years, bringing our capabilities and
resources to help meet their need for the right people and AI skills, technology and processes.
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Value from AI grows and shifts externally as maturity rises
One of the most striking findings from our research is that as a
company’s AI maturity grows, the outcomes and value it realises from AI
both increase and change location. Since the M&E industry is currently
in the early stages of AI adoption, the areas of value are mostly internally
focused such as higher productivity, customer retention and employee
engagement. Leaders in AI, on the other hand, are able to use it to
generate value externally, driving better strategic outcomes and growth.
What’s clear is that M&E companies cannot expect to launch their first AI project and immediately see the
returns on investment start to flow in.AI takes some while to ramp up and is a long game for ROI.This means
it needs sustained commitment and broad sponsorship from the executive leadership rather than just being
treated as a project play. As in other sectors, disruptors in media are mainly data/tech companies — and
competing with these is challenging unless an organisation is prepared to truly transform its business.
The need for long-term commitment is underlined by the fact that 65% of the M&E companies in our study are
seeing returns of 0% to 5% ROI from AI adoption, and none are seeing more than 5%. In contrast, nearly 40%
of AI leaders across industries report an average ROI of over 5%.As well as targeting ROI at this level from AI,
many M&E companies may also have lower-hanging fruit in the form of use cases where other technologies
could offer returns above 5%.The best approach may be to tackle these first, and then apply AI on top for the
marginal gains needed to compete with global tech. But whether you’re using AI alone or in combination, AI
maturity is where the returns really start to flow.
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Mapping out the road ahead
A fundamental industry shift towards direct-to-consumer — powered by digitalisation and intensifying
competition for audiences and content — is compelling M&E companies to mature their data and AI
capabilities. The ability to manage, interpret and act on data on an individual level in real time is now pivotal
to organisations’ future success. This means deploying AI. And while the industry is making progress with
AI, most companies are still at the relatively early stages, building business cases and developing pilots —
meaning they still have a long way to go to achieve maturity.
To accelerate and sustain their progress towards AI maturity, what companies should do now is ensure rock-
solid senior sponsorship and invest in strategic data modernisation. Those elements provide the bedrock for
testing out new use cases and running proofs-of-concept, before scaling up those ideas that fly and dropping
those that don’t. At the same time, AI investments should start to rebalance away from tech towards vital
people skills and process transformation using digital.
As you embark on this journey, don’t worry if the initial ROI from AI is hardly stellar: as our research confirms,
AI maturity brings returns that are not only higher, but also extend into strategic execution and competitive
advantage. AI is a long play, but a worthwhile one.
And the best way to start? Engage a partner who has undertaken the journey to AI maturity before with
clients in many industries.
16. Dr. Marcin Remarczyk
Director, CMT Consulting Europe, Cognizant
Marcin is a Director in Cognizant’s European Consulting practice based in London. He has
a cross-industry outlook with focus on media & entertainment and education, intelligent
automation, operating model and organisational design and transformation strategy and
execution. Marcin is a member of the British Association for Business Psychology and has an
interest in consulting research and thought leadership including socioeconomic aspects of
digitisation. He was the winner of the 2019 MCA Award in the Change & Transformation in the
Public Sector category for his transformation work with the BBC. Prior to joining Cognizant,
Marcin was a consultant with IBM UK Global Business Services (formerly PwC Consulting). He can
be reached at Marcin.Remarczyk@cognizant.com | www.linkedin.com/in/remarczyk/.
David Ingham
Head of Media, Entertainment & Sport Practice, Cognizant
As the leader within Cognizant’s UK Communication, Media & Technology (CMT) practice, David has
extensive experience transforming content-driven businesses. He has worked on major initiatives such
as M&A integration, rights & royalties automation and OTT data analysis, focusing on how technology
and business process can be optimised to deliver the best outcomes for the organisation. David also
manages the sport portfolio, including Cognizant sponsorships with The Football Association, Aston
Martin F1 and SailGP. Cognizant works with these organisations to demonstrate capability across fan
engagement, grassroots sport development and performance analytics. He can be reached at David.
Ingham@cognizant.com | www.linkedin.com/in/dsingham/.
Peter Elvidge
Director, Media and Entertainment, Cognizant
Peter has been with Cognizant since 2020. Director of Media and Entertainment, he’s a business engineer
at heart with a passion for harnessing disruption in the media industry. Supporting Dolby and Globecast,
Peter gained vast commercial experience across the entire media & entertainment supply chain and he
brings this to bear at Cognizant where he is responsible for building Cognizant’s brand across the media
and entertainment industry.Working closely with clients and industry association partners such as DPP
MESA and the Digital Catapult, Peter commits himself to delivering a network of innovators to our clients,
helping broadcasters see the value that tech startups will bring to a fast changing industry ecosystem. He
can be reached at Peter.Elvidge@cognizant.com | www.linkedin.com/in/peterelvidge/.
Lavanya Balasubramani
Consulting Manager, Cognizant
Lavanya is a Consulting Manager in Cognizant’s European Consulting practice based in London. She
specialises in advisory services for media clients. Lavanya is focused on digital transformation and
innovation. She partners with clients to leverage technologies like AI to transform business outcomes.
Prior to joining Cognizant, Lavanya was pursuing her passion for expanding educational opportunities for
all children through the Teach for All fellowship. She graduated from the Indian School of Business (ISB)
with an MBA in marketing and strategy. She can be reached at Lavanya.balasubramani@cognizant.com |
www.linkedin.com/in/lavanya-balasubramani-062b95100/.
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