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If you are three times as productive as your competitors, if you can do a job four times as fast, will your sales and profits increase?Silly question! So why don’t you do so? Let me give a short anecdote from yesterday. We have a small conference and training venue in Ferndale. We worked out a […]
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No, that’s false. AI is not an expert, but it can become an expert on some things in your business. You and your staff are experts in what the business does and what you want it to do. It could be technical issues that your technical department is expert at, it could be HR, it
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The answer is slowly and carefully.Most big businesses ignore this advice and are spending millions on the most expensive consultants and then designing expensive software that will never work and be overtaken by better technology before it is implemented. Who remembers the early days of e-commerce? Around the year 2000, Standard Bank spent millions creating
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🚀 AI isn’t the enemy. It isn’t magic either. It’s a tool. And how you use it determines whether it becomes a saviour or a villain.Recently, I’ve seen articles on AI about this topic. The common concern?👉 AI gets things wrong.👉 AI hallucinates. We’ve all read about law firms submitting fake case law to judges,
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One of my big complaints when I deal with companies is they never get back to me, or take days or weeks to reply. On Friday I ordered something on-line. Soon afterwards I received a message that the item will be delivered on Saturday between 8am and 8pm. This meant I had to stay home
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Our AI chatbots and WhatsApp responders can integrate with most other systems. There are various ways that this is accomplished: Examples Our client has a large data base of information and wants all questions and answers stored there. They gave us an API Key and we integrated our data into their system. It is now
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Anyone on X (previously Twitter) will know that @Grok is the AI version of X. In the past week people are using it more and more because it is embedded inside X. You can ask it to explain or fact check a post. you can ask it any question just like ChatGPT.What is very interesting
I’ve been a bit frustrated with some companies AI agents recently. I needed to book a hotel room. I used one of the booking apps which went smoothly. Then the plane was delayed and I wanted to let the hotel know I’d be arriving 4 hours later. I used the booking app to try to
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A Case Study for an AI AgentWe were approached by a company that was in the process of implementing a new IT system. It’s a standard system that had been customised to their requirements.The issues they needed assistance on included: 1) Change management. They had no standardized system and most staff used spreadsheets. It was
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I see two main areas where AI is used in a business. This is an arbitrary distinction, but I think a useful one. 1) It is an IT function: Your IT systems should be revamped to benefit from better software engineering. Whatever business you are in, an AI approach can improve efficiency. Remember AI is
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