Five top tips for ensuring your conversational AI project is a hit

Most organizations have bold ambitions to deliver AI technologies internally, however they lack the skills, experience or capacity to deliver these projects successfully. Conversational AI is becoming more popular as a way of automating messaging and speech-enabled applications that offer human-like interactions between computers and humans. But it’s often hard to get these projects right.  Let’s look first at where …

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Introducing the project economy – the engine ready to power a Brave New World

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, it was considered a downplay of the technological optimism that typified the period of change after the First World War. An early reviewer said Huxley had an “inability to believe really in anything”. Fast forward the best part of a century and – emerging from a global pandemic – we too …

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Why project managers need to be contract managers too

The numerous framework agreements have provided the public sector with a more streamlined and objective way to procure IT services. So far so good. The challenge comes when project managers – whose skillsets and training lie in project management and not procurement – are expected to manage the “as-a-Service” framework-based projects in the same waterfall approach they have used effectively …

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Asking the right questions and asking the questions right: How should a project manager communicate with the team?

Why does a manager ask questions? A manager directs and motivates the team, as well as helps to understand the wishes and requirements of clients, and how to achieve set goals. The manager asks questions in order to: Help the team think more efficiently Help find a solution to a problem of a project or client Better understand people’s motivation …

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Many CTOs aren’t using project management frameworks

Project management frameworks, despite being commonplace across most organizations, are not being used by more than a quarter of Chief Technology Officers (27 percent), a new report from STX Next states. However, the authors of the report don’t necessarily view this in a negative light. Commenting on the findings, Maciej Dziergwa, CEO of STX Next, claimed this is more indicative …

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