Podcast: Why You Need a Working Knowledge of AI

Using artificial intelligence, marketing professor Eric Anderson and a team of researchers learned that fans of these ultimately doomed products were “harbingers of failure,” in that they tended to really like items that were later discontinued. The fine print for businesses: you don’t want your product to be in their shopping carts.

This is the kind of insight that AI and analytics can bring to bear, but getting there isn’t as easy as pressing a button or hiring data scientists, Anderson says.

“Business leaders need what’s called a ‘working knowledge’ of data science,” Anderson says.

On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we learn how business leaders can get the most out of these tools.

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