A fascinating talk with Cecil Sunder, a hyper AI Business focused solutions leader at Microsoft, where we spend the majority of the time talking about the tactical and strategic approaches for deeper partnerships with big businesses, and how Artificial Intelligence is being leveraged today, to create seamless customer experiences and to accelerate products to market. You are in for a treat!

Big ticket items covered on the chat:

1) How military experience helps develop effective approaches to technology adoption: acceleration, evaluation, and implementation within limited resources

2) Why vision, belief, and conviction are 60-70% of the what business leaders need to have, to be successful in the innovation economy

3) The importance of a partnership: what technology vendors must bring to the table, and how business leaders should be leveraging their expertise in their subject matter area to create valuable, scalable, and sustainable solutions to big challenges

Books referenced:

https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-3rd-Disruptive-Mainstream/dp/0062292986/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542813655&sr=8-1&keywords=crossing+the+chasm

You can contact Cecil:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecil08businessweek/