The making of well-designed AI / ML solutions requires significant data engineering and data wrangling exercises. Data engineering and scalable modern solution architectures are key requirements for an AI/ML solution for production use. We use a business-focused approach to IT in engineering the solution, aligning analytics, AI/ML approaches, and technology. Unleashing agile analytics within an enterprise where data is imprisoned in legacy platforms and infrastructure requires not just an IT transformation – but a data-first approach driven by an analytics partner. Finally, to understand how the data-to-decision making comes together requires excellent team dynamics and analyzing, designing, and building the AI/ML application.

The banking sector will be one of the most critical players in the post COVID-19 world and has the power and responsibility to orchestrate a strong global response to the emerging economic implications. Banks are now starting to move beyond just ensuring business continuity, and are beginning to develop new capabilities to guide customers, partners, and the larger society through the crisis and beyond.

To navigate through these challenging times, we recommend initiatives to support customers, manage the business, reinforce confidence in the organization, and support in strengthening the economy and society.

Leading in a Time of Crisis

Thursday, June 18 |11:30 am EST

Speakers:

  • Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
  • Srikanth Velamakanni
  • Pranay Agrawal

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has also been recognized as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the eight consecutive years. He is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

In this webinar session, Marshall will provide coaching advice on leadership techniques that are especially suited to today’s challenging times. He will also build upon the philosophy to help participants learn how to make the best of what is and maintain peace and happiness in the face of adversity. Dr. Goldmith will discuss ‘pragmatic optimism’ – the balance between facing the hard reality that exists and planning for a better future.

Fractal's covid response

Restructuring the global economic order with real time insights using scalable epidemiology framework.

The omnichannel commerce was rapidly reducing the physical store, pushing it into an app on a smartphone. The COVID-19 pandemic, brought a further 25% surge in e-commerce led by online grocery and brought new cohorts into the digital marketplace, viz the boomers and Gen-Xs. The change in behavior is now here to stay.

The current situation has also brought in a sharp focus on the supply chain as our lifeline. To meet consumer demand, we have come to expect  frontline people to be available at the store like never before, even as retailers are setting up express delivery services to cover the last mile.

It is important to keep the supply lines running to meet customer demand while ensuring the safety and security of the customers and frontline people. The retail industry also has a burning platform for digital transformation, changing investments for a predominantly online business.

Here are six operating solutions that leverage the power of AI, data engineering, and human-centric design to enable efficient operations in the short term; also find a series of transformative solutions and ideas for pivoting to the novel economy.

The COVID-19 outbreak has created a massive disruption in how we make, sell, and consume products, some of it having a lasting impact on the CPG industry. The immediate imperative for the industry is to pivot to consumer demand in their trusted brands, ensure the safety of their frontline staff, and keep a close watch on their working capital. Besides, we also need a plan for the emerging changes in human behavior- how we work, socialize & shop and torque our pace of digital transformation.

In these times of social distancing and lockdowns to efficiently run integrated operations, we recommend seven winning strategies by leveraging the power of AI, data engineering, and design.

Among the many shades of the crisis, the media consumption has gone through a complete change. Where at one point at-home entertainment options like digital, TV, gaming to see an upswing as ‘lockdown behavior’ results in habit formation, there is a new trend forming in customer management strategy. Find more about this changed world.

 

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The COVID-19 outbreak has created a massive disruption in how we make, sell, and consume products. The immediate imperative for the industry is to pivot to consumer demand in their trusted brands, ensure the safety of their frontline staff, and keep a close watch on their working capital. Besides, we also need a plan for the emerging changes in human behavior- how we work, socialize & shop and torque our pace of digital transformation.

 

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Financial services will be one of the significant players in the post-COVID-19 world, having the power and responsibility to orchestrate a strong global response to the emerging economic implications. Today, businesses need to develop new capabilities to guide customers, partners, and the larger society through the crisis and beyond. Find how to navigate through the economic downturn and the corrective actions to take in different phases of the crisis.

 

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Qure.ai has developed AI powered virtual care solutions that can identify people at high-risk of COVID-19, much before they reach the hospital emergency rooms. The platforms help track, manage and prioritise the testing and improve diagnosis of COVID-19. The solutions have been adapted to today’s unprecedented and changing situation.

  • COVID-19 progression monitoring tool – qXR
  • Pandemic Response Care Platform – qScout

The pandemic saw apps in categories like video conferencing, learning, social media, gaming etc. get a huge boost in downloads & usage whereas apps in other categories saw major drop in use eg travel, ride-hailing services. Here is how to drive continued app growth in the post pandemic world.

 

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The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the need for a physical store, and created a 25% surge in e-commerce, bringing new cohorts to the digital marketplace viz boomers and Gen-Xs. This change in behavior is here to stay. The retail industry is also on a burning platform for digital transformation, changing investments for a predominantly online business. Find the six operating solutions, leveraging the power of AI, data engineering, and human-centric design to enable efficient operations, transformative solutions, and ideas for pivoting to the novel economy.

 

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ainyc overview

Organizations today are banking on AI for their toughest business challenges. Be it big or small, every problem has become an AI problem. It is becoming more and more relevant and ubiquitous. Although AI has become an indispensable component of all solutions and problem solving, it is not a self-sufficient component.

The larger the business, the larger are their problems and that too at worldwide complexity and a scale of millions of consumers. AI comes to rescue while solving these problems and delivering higher value, but that alone is not enough. Building pipelines to drive decisions in real-time and solving these problems by making humans behave the way we want to behave have become extremely crucial elements in problem solving.

AI Transformation

Fractal hosted the 6th Annual Client Advisory Board (CAB) event on October 9-10 in Boston at the Four Seasons Hotel. This private, invitation-only event was designed as a cross-industry and cross-functional learning forum to share insights and practical tips between CAB Members and Fractal.

This year’s CAB that focused on helping businesses better leverage AI, was attended by 35 Members from Fortune 500 companies spanning a wide-range of industries including CPG, financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecom, technology, retail, hospitality and more. More than 10 industry speakers including keynote speaker – Brian Christian, Author, Algorithms to Live By and The Most Human Human provided insights and shared their perspective with peers.
ai.dxb overview

AI has taken centerstage in the boardroom discussions and is amongst the most talked about technology in CXO’s business lexicon. AI deployments have grown substantially year-on-year. As more businesses realize the significance of AI, adoption within the enterprises will become mainstream and will enable businesses derive more transformative business impact.

How can you unlock and accelerate the emerging opportunities created through artificial intelligence?

Fractal Analytics’ ai.dxb workshop is a premier and one of its kind industry event. This is an engaging session of thought leaders from multiple industries – Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Airlines, Hospitality, CPG etc., and will focus on how organizations can transform and cover the journey from Business Intelligence (BI) to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thought provoking key note session and engaging panel discussions will ensure that you get to know the topical understanding of AI across multiple fronts.

Fractal Analytics’ ai.dxb will be held in Dubai on October 23rd.  The event will help you understand the power of AI, its applicability and provide practitioners view to transform from business Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence. This will be an engaging forum and will provide you with an opportunity to interact, collaborate, learn and network with key industry stakeholders from several leading organizations.

ai series

What happens when the world’s best minds come together and experience the best of Artificial Intelligence? A surge of new possibilities. At CAB, executive-level visionaries and thought leaders connect at a common platform from diverse industries, and together we explore new avenues and try to a build a better world for humankind. CAB is an annual event hosted by Fractal to share, learn and collaborate with global giants to envision their future.

It’s a platform for seamless collaboration of intelligence and imagination, learning from each other. Our collaboration creates this culture of imagination where Fractal’s role is to power every human decision. Giving every leader the power to re-imagine the VUCA world.

About CAB 2015

Fractal hosted the 3rd Annual Client Advisory Board event on September 9-10 in Chicago at the W Lakeshore Hotel. This was a private, invitation-only event comprising analytics-focused executives among select Fractal strategic clients. The CAB is designed to share insights and learning between Members and Fractal to facilitate our clients in getting Analytics a seat at the C-suite table and drive enterprise-wide adoption of analytics. The end goal of our collective mission is to leverage data, analytics and technology to drive stronger customer loyalty and business performance within the Fortune 500 clients we serve.

“I want to call out how unique this event is. A lot of us get to go to best practices groups, a lot of us get to go to supplier summits, a lot of us get to provide feedback at a kind of an advisory board. Being able to do all three intermixed in a way that I think provides value in 360 degrees is really unusual.” “I think the way this event is run, the content that you have is a clear reflection of your culture and a company that is both getting to know itself and clear about what it stands for. And being able to have this level of transparent conversation with this volume of employees present, I would argue is also particularly unique and I consider particularly positive.” Reed Cundiff General Manager, Customer and Market Research Microsoft.

Powering every human decision in the enterprise

Fractal hosted our 4th annual Client Advisory Board event on September 28-29 in Chicago at the Swissotel Chicago. This private, invitation-only event comprised senior executive analytics thought leaders among Fractal’s strategic clients, representing some of the world’s most valued brands representing, in aggregate, over $600 billion of annual revenue.

The CAB was designed as a cross-industry and cross-functional learning forum to share insights and learning between Client Advisory Board Members and Fractal to facilitate enhanced data-driven decisions and enterprise-wide adoption of analytics. The event also served to help Fractal become an even better strategic partner toward achieving our mission to power every human decision in the enterprise among the Fortune 500 clients we serve.

The event content was comprised of keynotes, a panel and workshops with the following themes:

  • Shared key trends in analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) and how these approaches are transforming our world
  • Revealed new applications of Deep Learning (form of AI) among Member industries to shift from gut decisions to algorithms that drive faster, more accurate, and more effective decisions
  • Share their views on the key drivers of analytics success within Member enterprises including: how to organize and which people are needed, the importance of data acquisition, influencing the C-Suite to drive the analytics mandate, and influencing business users to adopt analytics, by considering:
  • Members shared case studies on successful analytics implementations and lessons learned
  • Discussed the key considerations in building an analytics roadmap and adoption plan
Partner with tomorrow

Fractal hosted the 5th Annual Client Advisory Board event on September 27-28 in Boston at the Mandarin Oriental. This private, invitation-only event comprised senior executive analytics thought leaders among Fractal’s strategic clients, representing some of the world’s most valued brands representing, in aggregate, over $500 billion of annual revenue.

The CAB was designed as a cross-industry and cross-functional learning forum to share insights and learning between Client Advisory Board Members and Fractal to facilitate enhanced data-driven decisions and enterprise-wide adoption of analytics. The event also served to help Fractal become an even better strategic partner toward achieving our mission to power every human decision in the enterprise among the Fortune 500 clients we serve.

The event content was comprised of keynotes, panels and workshops with the following themes:

  • Shared use cases where artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling people to make better decisions and what are the key success requirements of AI approaches that can enable human interactions
  • Reviewed the key components of the AI roadmap, covering how to develop and operationalize AI algorithms within the enterprise to drive competitive advantage
  • Discussed what it takes to build executive buy-in for AI, design data strategies, deploy experimentation, and scale solutions that drive widespread internal and external user adoption
  • Members shared case studies on their journey to define, implement and drive adoption of AI and the role data and analytics played to transform their business
  • Revealed the AI Maturity Diagnostic Survey results that provided a general benchmark on how well organizations are prepared to leverage AI