Embedding smartness in your organisation
Embedding smartness in your organisation
Good Day! This is my weekly newsletter, with a dose of insights into the future. The topic of this newsletter is the exponential times we live in, hence the title of f(x) = e^x, which is the (natural) exponential function.
Recently, I launched my new concept The Digital Speaker and you can now book me as an avatar or hologram. Also, my tech trend prediction for 2021 is out, read it here!
Make Your Business Smarter with IBM Watson Studio
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With so much data being available today, embedding smartness in your organization has become a necessity to remain competitive. The wealth of data available within your enterprise can be used to train artificial intelligence to create a smart business. As a result, you can achieve efficiency improvements, track trends, develop smooth workflows and enable dozens of other internal operational improvements. All these processes depend on the data you can collect and interpret. In the past, this would require a large team of data scientists. Today, IBM Watson Studio offers a way to rapidly unlock existing data so that you can turn it into actionable advice.
Three Useful Nuggets of Information
My weekly tips from around the web to get you thinking.
1. Is the blockchain hype over? Corporate America thinks so.
An Axios study revealed that S&P 500 Executives are dropping blockchain buzzwords in their earnings calls. While companies like Kodak made headlines by including it, does this mean that the hype is over? I doubt it, but it shows a market that is slowly maturing. (Axios)
2. Did Google re-route its traffic through Russia and Nigeria?
On Monday, some Google Services where rerouted through Russian, Chinese and Nigerian telecommunication companies. Was it a glitch in Google’s services or was it a hijacking attack? Google is investigating it. (Gizmodo)
3. The Marshall Islands wants to do an ICO.
The Pacific micro-state plans tolaunch a cryptocurrency called the Sovereign, which will have the same status as the US dollar. However, the Beijing-backed business plan is controversial. (Asian Review)
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is The Digital Speaker, a world-leading futurist and global AI keynote speaker who helps leaders decide what AI, and the technologies that follow it, mean for their business. He speaks to leadership teams at their retreats and to conference audiences worldwide, and his WAVE framework gives them a way of deciding that they keep using long after he has left the room. His Intelligence Age Scorecard measures how ready an organization is across the four WAVE pillars.
He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, is a Certified Speaking Professional and Global Speaking Fellow, and ranks among the world’s top futurists on the Global Gurus list (#1 in 2025, #3 in 2026). Salesforce named him one of its 16 leading AI voices. He has written six books, most recently Now What? How to Ride the Tsunami of Change, writes the Synthetic Minds newsletter on Substack, and founded Futurwise. Talk to his digital twin on WhatsApp: +1 (830) 463-6967.
