9 Results from 2019
Ron Cogburn CEO at Exela Technologies
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell This is a reprint from my recent article for Forbes Tech Council Every software platform, piece of hardware and back-end system developed at my company has required coordination between tech development groups spread across the world. Our primary hubs are lo...
13 December 2019 /sustainable Fintech
“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth,” wrote Jules Verne. This is a reprint from my recent article for the Forbes Technology Council I’ve been in the field of automation long enough to see that many of the most impressive advancements are still...
21 November 2019 /ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
"Fortune favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur This is a reprint from my recent Forbes Technology Council article. My experience in business process automation has given me firsthand exposure to the kind of job displacement that’s possible as new technologies emerge. As I (and others) have said, we’re in the midst of another indust...
26 July 2019 /ai Bigger than Technology
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." Woody Allen What if, during your next hotel stay, a digital kiosk used facial recognition software to recover your reservation, a voice-controlled smart speaker adjusted the temperature in your room, and an artificial intelligence...
11 July 2019 /ai Bigger than Technology
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it." George Bernard Shaw This article is a reprint from my recent article for the Forbes Technology Council Innovation is often framed as a eureka moment, but really, it’s more of an iterative process based on short-term needs. I’ve seen this time and again in the world...
10 June 2019 /ai Innovation in Financial Services
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy This article is a reprint from my recent article with the Forbes Technology Council As humans, our obsession with predicting the future has been a constant throughout history. Ancient Chinese farmers developed perh...
13 May 2019 /ai Bigger than Technology
“Know your customer” (KYC), while a critical regulatory requirement, can quickly get gummy and frustrating when data is scattered across multiple systems. Financial institutions collect massive amounts of customer data—where people live, what they drive, whether they own homes, what credit cards they use—that can satisfy anti-money laundering (AML...
02 May 2019 /regulation Bigger than Technology
This is a reprint from Exela's recent article in Entrepenuer Magazine by Suresh Yannamani, President of Exela Technologies Machines haven’t yet supplanted human workers en masse, but at the World Economic Forum’s 2019 meeting in Davos, Switzerland, corporate executives revealed they’re facing massive pressure from shareholders and boards to meet s...
22 April 2019 /ai Bigger than Technology
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw. Automation is nothing new. In fact, it's been influencing manufacturing processes for centuries, allowing human beings to produce without constantly keeping their hands on the wheel. But as the head of a business proce...
03 April 2019 /ai Bigger than Technology
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