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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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The company is a swimming pool retailer. They sell equipment to repair pools, filters, cleaning equipment and chemicals. The pool industry in South Africa is very competitive: large chains, hardware companies and specialised pool businesses all compete against each other. It’s a cliche to say that the difference is service, but it’s more true than
There’s a retailer I buy from occasionally. Yesterday I saw their Facebook advert saying send a WhatsApp to <xxxxx> for daily specials. The reason I saw the advert was because I was considering buying something and remembered they also supply it, so had visited their Facebook page. I sent the WhatsApp yesterday at 8:56am.I received
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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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Meta recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to study how consumers experience generative AI.One key finding stood out:👉 “Consumers’ top challenges with genAI are receiving incomplete answers and an inability to answer their questions. Nearly half of the consumer survey respondents who have interacted with a genAI chatbot or automated chat complained that it was unable to
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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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I know I sound like a broken record, but if companies would care about their customer service, I wouldn’t need to complain.On Saturday I saw a product I want to buy, but I know competitive products had problems with the handle so I wanted to know if they keep spares. This company’s website had a
South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile wants to regulate AI.Over the weekend the Deputy President stated “Artificial intelligence and technology, if left unregulated, will create a new digital divide deeper than apartheid ever was.” What exactly does he want to do? How do you regulate a piece of software?Let us remember that AI is simply
