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Question 1

What are the challenges in implementation related to customers?

Answer 1

Communicating what he wants/what he needs, budget constraints and timeline
pressure.

Question 2

What are the challenges in implementation related to infrastructure?

Answer 2

Managing hardware and software dependencies and addressing security concerns.

Question 3

What are the challenges in implementation related to project lead?

Answer 3

Understanding the requirements, addressing scope changes and navigating resource restraints.

Question 4

What are the challenges in implementation related to architect?

Answer 4

Translating requirements into feasible designs and managing design changes.

Question 5

What are the challenges in implementation related to developer?

Answer 5

Implementing the requirements effectively and ensuring code quality.

Question 6

What are the challenges in implementation related to consultant?

Answer 6

Aligning solutions with client needs, managing client expectations and dealing with potential client skepticism or pushback.

Question 7

What are the challenges in implementation related to documentation?

Answer 7

Maintaining accuracy and completeness, being up-to-date and overcoming documentation resistance form team members.

Question 8

What are the challenges in implementation related to customer needs (conclusion)?

Answer 8

Finding out what the customer actually needs and implementing it.

Question 9

What is strategy?

Answer 9

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a (long-term) goal.

Question 10

What is digital strategy?

Answer 10

Digital strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a (long-term) goal in a digitalized world.
Digital strategy is not about the use of specific technology; technology defines the means, not the result.
Digital strategy is not a subset of business strategy – it is the corporate strategy in a digitalized world.

Question 11

What are the strategic levers for digital transformation?

Answer 11

• process
• data
• suppliers
• customers
• products & services

Question 12

What is digital transformation?

Answer 12

Digital transformation is not an end in itself. It aims to improve value positioning or value creation.
Digital transformation can be shaped by strategic levers to change specific aspects of an existing business.

Question 13

What is hype cycle?

Answer 13

Use hype cycle predictions to develop your AI strategies for the future and deploy technologies.
The hype cycle contains innovations that need to be known and are expected to bring extensive benefits to any organization.

Question 14

Why do we face disruptive transformation?

Answer 14

Individuals & society: available anytime through mobile devices as the tool of choice for consumption:
- Potential for bias
- Need for robust regulations
- Ethical concerns
Companies: face extreme pressure of disruptive business models:
- Automation of jobs
- Enabling new business models
- Enhanced efficiency in various industries

Question 15

What is VUCA?

Answer 15

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity.
Technological change is cause and remedy for the VUCA world

Question 16

What is volatility?

Answer 16

Speed and magnitude of change is unpredictable.
Technology amplifies fluctuations in demand but also helps address challenges from shortening of product lifecycles through changes in R&D, production, logistics, and marketing, etc.

Question 17

What is uncertainty?

Answer 17

Events and outcomes are unpredictable, history is not a guide to the future.
Technological advances lead to new business opportunities but also may Destry existing ones rapidly.
Uncertainty about long-term societal impacts.

Question 18

What is complexity?

Answer 18

Multiple independent variables leading to multifaceted effects which are difficult to analyse and interpret.
Technological development increases level of data available and opportunities for analysing and drawing conclusions on data but also massively boosts complexity.
Complexity of integrating AI into existing systems.

Question 19

What is ambiguity?

Answer 19

Several possible and equally valid valuations and interpretations that are mutually contradictory.
Business risk arising from ambiguity can be addresses by outsourcing to technology partners.
Ambiguity surrounding ethical considerations and regulations in the AI landscape.