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If you've ever requested quotes from software development agencies and received estimates ranging from £30,000 to £250,000 for what feels like the same project, the brief is almost always the explanation. Agencies quotin
Read articleThe build vs buy conversation is one that most technology leaders have had repeatedly, and most have formed a prior opinion about. Teams that have been burned by expensive custom development projects lean heavily toward
Read articleDemand forecasting has existed as a business discipline for decades. What has changed is the quality of the forecasts it can now produce, and the accessibility of the tools required to produce them. What used to require
Read articleMachine learning is one of those technologies that attracts investment for the wrong reasons as often as the right ones. The wrong reason is that competitors are doing it, or that it sounds like the kind of thing a forwa
Read articleThe words 'chatbot' and 'conversational AI' get used interchangeably in vendor marketing, which makes buying decisions harder than they need to be. They are not the same thing. The distinction matters because choosing th
Read articleThere is a version of the AI conversation that happens at the board level — full of possibility, short on specifics. Then there is the version that happens in finance and operations, where the question is simpler and har
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