All Generative AI articles

Resource Video: Real-World AI Deployment
November 15, 2024
Video from a November 2024 InnoLead members' meeting on artificial intelligence, led by Andy Lee, who runs the AI Accelerator at Indeed.
Article CarMax CTO: Advice on Setting Product Teams Up for Success
November 15, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
Shamim Mohammad is Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Technology Officer at CarMax. We spoke with Mohammad about leveraging AI to deliver reliable results, successfully structuring technical teams for innovation, and more.
On Demand Webcast Accelerating Venture Creation with AI
November 12, 2024
How can startups and large companies build new ventures better and faster using AI tools? In this webcast replay, Dave Blakely of Mach49 demonstrates how to accelerate customer research with synthetic personas identify customer pain-points and pain hypotheses with AI support; and visualize solutions using AI tools. He was joined...
Article The White House Says All Agencies Should Have a Chief AI Officer. Should You?
November 8, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Last week, the White House published a memorandum on advancing US leadership in artificial intelligence. We unpack what it means for the country — and for corporations.
Article BCG Report: AI Leader Companies are Already Reaping Tangible Results
October 30, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
A new report from BCG finds that companies moving forward quickly with AI are seeing 50 percent greater revenue growth and 60 percent higher total shareholder returns.
Article Shaping Product Experience with AI at Extreme Networks
October 29, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Carla Guzzetti, SVP of Product Experience and Innovation at Extreme Networks, discusses how AI-driven innovation and customer-centric design are shaping the future of networking. She describes AI as a key enable of product experience and explains how her team is leveraging AI for improving workflow efficiency, addressing IT staffing shortages,...
Article Inside Look: Consumer Reports’ AI-Powered Chatbot
October 11, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
Consumer Reports recently launched AskCR, an AI-powered chatbot that can answer subscribers' questions based on the nonprofit organization's research into a wide array of consumer products. Here's how it was developed — and the challenges the team had to overcome.
Article Bain Tech Report: Where AI is Already Delivering Results
September 27, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
A new Technology Report from Bain says that the top AI use cases for productivity gains include software and product development, customer support, sales and marketing, and back office operations. More highlights inside...
Article Hollywood Studio Lionsgate Strikes Data Deal with GenAI Startup Runway
September 24, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
To live up to their lofty valuations, every generative AI startup needs big bucks enterprise deals — rather than just selling $12-a-month subscriptions to consumers. This deal is about Lionsgate using generative AI for its own internal purposes, rather than letting you generate your own sequel to the "Hunger Games"...
Resource AI Literacy for Business Execs
August 14, 2024
Video and slides from an August 2024 InnoLead members' meeting on artificial intelligence, led by Michael Hayes of PracticalAI.
Article Payment Innovation at Scale: Inside Visa’s Global Innovation Network
August 8, 2024 | By Kate Katz
Valla Vakili, Visa's Senior Vice President and Global Head of Insights and Innovation, shares how Visa's Global Innovation Network pilots groundbreaking projects in digital payments, leveraging local insights to drive global solutions, all while aligning with Visa’s overarching mission to enhance and secure the payment ecosystem.
Article How Will AI Impact the Construction Industry? Insights from AXA XL Executive
August 5, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Cheri Hanes is Vice President and Head of Construction Innovation and Sustainability at AXA XL, the US commercial subsidiary of French $89 billion insurance giant AXA. We conected with her recently on the three pillars her team focuses on; progress metrics; managing the risks of new technologies; and how AXA...
Article AI Use Cases, Customer Insights, and Innovation Lessons from $2.8B AvalonBay Communities
July 31, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
We talk to David Madrid, Vice President of Innovation and Ventures at AvalonBay Communities, a $2.8 billion multifamily real estate investment trust that owns nearly 300 apartment buildings and more than 90,000 apartment homes across 12 states and the District of Columbia.
On Demand Webcast Deploying Generative AI in Regulated Industries
July 24, 2024
This webcast replay, from July 2024, features Jake Miller, CEO of Engineered Innovation Group. It goes beyond strategy and shows you how to deploy transformative AI-driven in regulated industries.
Article UPS Digital Innovation Leader on GenAI, Dynamic Pricing, and Experimentation
July 22, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
We talk to Sunzay Passari, UPS's Senior Director for Digital Innovation, about how his team carefully studies, tests, and deploys innovative technologies without slowing down the deliveries its customers — and their customers — depend upon.
Video How GenAI Changes the Economics of Knowledge
July 10, 2024
This session from our 2024 Leveraging AI event in Silicon Valley focused on the future of AI and automation, with speakers from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Robust.ai.
Video Predicting the Future of AI and Automation — and What’s Playing Out Today
July 10, 2024
This session from our 2024 Leveraging AI event in Silicon Valley focused on the future of AI and automation, with speakers from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Robust.ai.
Podcast AI and Innovation Converge at Harvard Business Publishing
July 8, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
In this episode, we talk to Laura Northridge, Senior Director of the AI Innovation Lab at Harvard Business Publishing. As is the case with many corporate innovators, she’s helping shape AI strategy and policy for the Boston-based nonprofit, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. It’s one of small number of...
Resource The Most Useful AI Tools for Innovation
June 26, 2024
Created in June 2024, here's our curated list of software-as-a-service tools for innovation, insights, design, startup scouting, and other tasks.
Article New Data on Generative AI Budgets, Challenges, Use Cases, and Impact on Innovation
June 13, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby
Two sessions at a recent conference in Boston explored the ways that generative AI is changing — and may continue to change — innovation work inside large organizations. Here are seven key takeaways...