Accelerate Business Growth and Outcomes with AI

whitePaper | August 26, 2022

Evolving data centers into intelligent hubs for digitized business processes poses numerous challenges for IT managers. Many organizations are already adopting hybrid IT concepts to make their data center operations more flexible. However, they also have to keep an eye on new requirements such as IoT, AI, blockchain, container technology as well as data security, legal regulations and climate change. How can all this be seamlessly integrated and managed? And, what will matter next for the data center of the future?

whitePaper | December 23, 2019

We are witnessing a new genre of companies shaping the business landscape by leveraging emerging technologies and applying them with such potency to create competitive advantage. These organisations have a quest to scale; they are big on customer experience; they are open to partnerships and are able to deploy their products and services at scale through APIs; they are big adopters of the cloud and quite often are born in the cloud; they embrace design thinking and are happy to return to first principles to find innovative solutions to business problems; and they are relentless at leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for insights and decision making.

whitePaper | May 17, 2021

AI will impact every area of our lives, and its applications are virtuallylimitless. From solving society's biggest problems to creating newopportunities in business, AI will help us take huge leaps forward in this next decade.

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

High-profile examples of harm associated with algorithm failure and misuse have garnered significant public concern (e.g. manipulation of the democratic process, discriminatory practice in criminal justice sentencing, and bias against racial and gender categories in the labour market). The field of AI ethics refers to the literature and to the community of people interested in this space. One high-profile manifestation of this is the formation of specialist ethics councils and teams to deliberate on conundrums regarding the use, access and openness of platforms and technologies (such as social media and messaging apps, etc.). For instance, the banning of particular public figures as well as lay users for use of the services in a manner that is not acceptable has been a constant theme in the public debate.

whitePaper | October 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence has already started to have an impact on urban settings at an unprecedented pace, with sophisticated solutions being deployed in the streets, at airports and in other city installations. In fact, cities are becoming experimental sites for new forms of artificial intelligence and automation technologies that are applied across a wide variety of sectors and places.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

We first published this index five years ago. The world was different then. Governments were dealing with a landscape defined by benign growth, relative global stability, the optimism of an emergent technology. In 2022, it feels like everything has changed. It looks like we are entering a global recession, war has returned to Europe and AI breaks new ground every week. Just the last month has brought advances in art (Stable Diffusion), chat (ChatGPT) and negotiation (CICERO).