Once there was gold, then oil, the black gold.
Today there are data and they are worth more than gold.
We are all talking about a smarter and more efficient world thanks to connectivity and data.
If until a few years ago there was little awareness of the value of data, today this is no longer the case.
Everyone is collecting more and more and with artificial intelligence, analysis becomes apparently easier and faster.
But be careful: artificial intelligence as it works today can lead to making serious mistakes.
Recently, artificial intelligence was commissioned by a large Asian company to develop a complex product that once completed arrived on the market. We analyzed it and discovered a very important design error, which also escaped the engineers who then approved its production.
Human abilities still remain essential. In particular, the role of knowledge and training of managers is even more important and must allow for a much broader high vision. In recent decades we have moved towards an increasingly strong specialization, and this is dangerous if not well managed. Every business requires specialization but also awareness of its implications and a view of the whole. Moreover, we need to pay attention to the speed with which everything evolves: artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to identify relationships, feeding with new information, but even small errors can still be generated that then risk becoming macroscopic.
Don’t underestimate the use of artificial intelligence by yourself but also by your collaborators and employees.
