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Use Business Understanding for a strong start to your AI initiative
You are championing an initiative and AI is key to success. You’ve hired a CPMAI to help your teams deliver. What comes next? Business Understanding is the first of six phases in the CPMAI approach. Engaging fully with this phase…
Artificial IntelligenceProject Management Artificial IntelligenceChoosing first projects that build AI buy-in
Bringing AI tools into an organization works best when the first applications are meaningful and manageable. Adoption is the goal and demonstrating impact earns that. Without impact on daily work, success still yields a shrug because nothing about the real…
Artificial Intelligence Artificial IntelligenceTurn technical debt into an action plan
Technical Debt. All those tradeoffs and delayed changes done to meet deadlines. Who has time to even keep track though, when everything not due today was due yesterday? Let's hope it doesn't erupt as a costly emergency later. Enter AI…
Artificial IntelligenceProject ManagementSoftware Development Artificial IntelligenceToo many PDFs? Try an LLM assistant
Many small businesses and brokers have to reference a variety of documents to execute core tasks. Often a helpful staff member summarizes it all into another PDF-as-index. Recently, I explored changing a search and hope activity into asking plain language…
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Agent systems help small businesses expand
"_____ cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI": The impact on large businesses from AI is real and meaningful. What about small businesses? Although there are real issues to watch for, I'm seeing AI tools help businesses expand while…
Artificial IntelligenceSoftware Development Artificial Intelligence7 AI Usage Patterns
Getting ready for an AI project at your business? Cool, what kind? An essential step towards AI success is to understand which usage pattern will address your business need. There are seven key patterns, summarized below.
Artificial IntelligenceProject Management Artificial IntelligenceSucceed at AI with a CPMAI
The CPMAI framework is a methodology for success with AI projects. It helps prevent you from rushing off without a proper grounding in your business needs, data safeguards, and other key factors. A CPMAI certificate holder can guide your organization…
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