I am continuing to watch how fellow Business Strategists are embracing areas of Artificial Intelligence into their Roadmaps and Operations. Take the plunge – that ‘s what tests, incubators and use cases are for . I have been listening to podcasts , reading articles and listening the conference speakers – get in the game now or you will get left behind.

Think about leveraging Robotic Process Automation to improve business processes, close the gaps and just plain cover your behinds. There is so much efficiency that can be realized if people step outside the box and look at the % of manual tasks your teams are doing from day to day. Why not put together some real juicy test cases that will use RPA and free up teams to manage the programs, learn new skills, focus on bigger “Rocks” that will deliver more value to the business.

How about personalization of offers to your customers ? Who wouldn’t be delighted to receive an offer that made sense for their specific need – based on a Machine Learning model using Un Supervised data.

I suspect that in meeting rooms across the USA Strategists are discussing these and more ideas but are either waiting for Executives to get on board or taking the “Wait and see what company X comes up with approach”. Don’t wait on a consensus or a first mover for too much longer or you will miss the boat…….