MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Accelerate Access to Data and Analytics With AI

Training employees how to locate and use data insights is a major Big Data bottleneck. A potential solution: AI systems that compress employees’ learning curves.

Even if businesses have made sizable investments in data and analytics, every employee doesn’t necessarily understand how to properly use that data. Learning enough to take advantage of those investments requires time and effort for each employee. While deep reservoirs of data may exist in the organization, the flow through individual employees may be more of a trickle than a cascade.

About the Author

Sam Ransbotham is an associate professor of information systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and the MIT Sloan Management Review guest editor for the Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Big Idea Initiative. He can be reached at sam.ransbotham@bc.edu and on Twitter @ransbotham.

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