Training the New Hybrid: The Data Scientist/Lawyer Will Transform the Profession linkedin.com/pulse/training…

My new book, Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration (with Judith Hurwitz and Candy Sidner) is now published. See: tinyurl.com/wuvwdnd

One key takeaway: augmented intelligence is bi-directional. Machines augment human capabilities & humans augment machines (via governance, ethical judgments). See tinyurl.com/wuvwdnd

Second key takeaway: best results in applying augmented intelligence to business is to change an organization's business model in leveraging augmented intelligence. See: tinyurl.com/wuvwdnd

#SAPPHIRENOW CEO McDermott on data-centric business models (equipment manufacturers selling up-time services), need to make digital simple.

#SAPPHIRENOW CEO McDermott concludes: can a business have a soul? can a business be alive? A "religion" of simple - will ecosystem believe?

#SAPPHIRENOW Bernd Leukert with CIO of Asian Paints (India), they re-imagined their business then began the journey to HANA & Simple Finance

#SAPPHIRENOW Leukert with Siemens (HANA Cloud Platform/IoT as basis for industry clouds; supporting shift to outcome-based business models..

#SAPPHIRENOW Leukert announces HANA Big Data Platform: connector to Hadoop/HDFS data, accessible via Spark to support real-time decisions.

#SAPPHIRENOW, Bill McDermott moves beyond in-memory to advisory systems based on machine learning, AI -- a new message from SAP, much needed

#SAPPHIRENOW Bill McDermott announces S/4HANA Value Assurance program with selected SI partners, to address customer uncertainty on value.

#SAPPHIRENOW Steve Singh: connecting networks (like Uber, Spotify, Concur) to get business done; announces SAP connected healthcare platform

IDC intelligent ERP report shows 3 dimensions-assistive/conversational UX, automated/augmented process, curated data tinyurl.com/j83eoy6

I'll be presenting results of an IDC survey of over 300 SAP customers on business drivers, experiences with S/4HANA: tinyurl.com/y7hk3bqr

I'll be at #AIWorld watching John Hurwitz and Francis Carden from Pegasystems discuss #Robotic Process #Automation goo.gl/gPTGo3. See you There! AI World

Can't wait for Demystifying #AI with John Hurwitz Gabi Zijderveld at #AIWorld goo.gl/agYX3u AI World

#AIWorld executive roundtable (Anju Gupta/Monsanto, Bill Mark/SRI, David Ledbetter/Children's Hospital) on need to bring machine learning group together with business domain experts as key to realizing value

#AIWorld panel, John Daly (Sony) on need to follow the money to tackle problems with measurable results; Dave Schubmehl (IDC) on surveys showing LOB managers driving AI decisions as they have the money, not IT

Ethical Controls and Our Responsibility to Govern Machine Intelligence linkedin.com/pulse/ethical-…

See my new blog post on the need to expand data privacy controls from personal data to social data: linkedin.com/pulse/ethical-…