NextBlue Alliance Conference: Artificial Intelligence has become a staple in business decision-making Gartner’s “Hype Cycle” on new marketing technologies indicates that artificial intelligence (AI) is far from having reached the adoption and productivity stage in businesses (see below). Still, AI has become essential in business decision-making, especially for marketing managers. This information emerged from the…
Map Your Way to a Successful Analytics Strategy
Before investing significant resources on any data or analytics project, it is important to fully understand the current state of technology, data, people and processes within an organization. Creating a data and analytics strategy can help organizations better leverage their resources. Once the data strategy is defined, an analytics roadmap takes the data strategy and…
Incentive Compensation Management
Who is WorkCentive? Let us be your trusted Incentive Compensation Management partner for your end-to-end solutions. We make the journey with you, from selling licenses through to production and optimally maintaining your system. Under the leadership of our CEO, Noah Bass, our team of seasoned consultants excel in all aspects of compensation, providing collaborative consulting…
Business Process Management
Who is Apex Process Consultants? Successful business transformation projects have the right combination of technologies, methodologies and people. At Apex, we help our clients to crystallize their digital vision, define implementation strategies and build execution capabilities. Accelerate your digital transformation and automate your business with Apex’s proven approach. Expertise Technologies to Automate Your Business We…
Orchestration: the secret ingredient for improving organizational agility
In science fiction movies, it often happens that robots or computers make decisions or advise the human on the best next action to take for a given situation. The technology is now made so, that reality surpasses fiction! For this last post about the Synergy project, I have decided to give you some concrete examples…
What is digital reinvention?
When I meet with clients or when I have the opportunity to give lectures on the subject, I mention the term digital reinvention to describe the 4th journey of our Synergy project. Almost every time, I get the same look and the same question: “Did you mean digital transformation?”. I always say: “No, it’s not…
Creating a true sense of trust for a successful digital transformation
Last week, I was discussing the operationalization of artificial intelligence with a major retailer in Quebec, and the subject of data (and more specifically its quantity) quickly came to the heart of the conversation. Indeed, it is possible to create intelligent services without data (for example, a virtual agent), but it is impossible to complete…
Intelligent automation to create a WOW effect for your employees!
I don’t think there is a single day where I don’t hear about the labour shortage in Quebec. This shortage has brought the experience back to the forefront and has asked leaders to find creative ways to give candidates a “wow” effect in filling vacant positions. Human resources have thus become the superheroes of organizations…
Modernize your applications to ensure a competitive advantage
As explained in my last article, the Synergy project proposes a game plan for artificial intelligence. However, where do we start? This question is frequently asked by my clients. My answer is always the same: are your applications and data ready? This may sound like a simple question, but most of the clients I meet will…
The Synergy project: is your artificial intelligence roadmap ready?
Indeed, in today’s world, it is not possible to think about digital transformation without artificial intelligence. However, what does that mean? How can we operationalize artificial intelligence? This may sound like a simple question, but I have not met many companies that have been able to answer it. To answer this question, SIA and NextBlue…