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11Refer to Part Four of the book for detailed references.
12This definition has been written by the authors, inspired by IEEE Std. 2755-2017. “IEEE Guide for Terms and Concepts in Intelligent Process Automation”
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39Access Lego Life on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lego.common.legolife&hl=en
40CXO Talk, 2019. “McKinsey: Leap Beyond Digital Transformation” https://www.cxotalk.com/video/mckinsey-leap-beyond-digital-transformation
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43According to DBS CEO Piyush Gupta. https://www.dbs.com/livemore/q-dbs-ceo-piyush-gupta.html
44https://www.dbs.com/innovation/dbs-innovates/at-dbs-we-act-less-like-a-bank-and-more-like-a-tech-company-with-dbs-bank-ceo-piyush-gupta.html
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54McKinsey, 2019. “Global AI Survey: AI proves its worth, but few scale impact”. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intelligence/global-ai-survey-ai-proves-its-worth-but-few-scale-impact
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56Jordan Etkin and Cassie Mogilner, 2016. “Does Variety Among Activities Increase Happiness?” Journal of Consumer Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucw021
57Examples of such platforms include Microsoft Workplace Analytics https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/workplaceanalytics and Work Insights (Google) https://gsuite.google.com/products/workinsights/
58Examples of such platforms include Woebot https://woebot.io/ and Moodkit https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moodkit/id427064987
59Examples of such platforms include Time Doctor and Track.ly.
60Examples of such platforms include Polinode and OrgMapper.
61Examples of such platforms include Workona, GestStation and Veamly.
62An example of such a platform is Calendly.
63Examples of such platforms include Activeinbox and Sanebox.
64Here is one of these solutions: https://products.office.com/en-in/business/myanalytics-personal-analytics
65Net Promoter, n.d. “What is Net Promoter?” https://www.netpromoter.com/know/
66 Engage Customer, n.d. “Customer satisfaction on the rise globally”. https://engagecustomer.com/customer-satisfaction-on-the-rise-globally/
67 TrendWatching, 2014. “The Future of Customer Service”. https://trendwatching.com/trends/future-customer-service/
68Steven Van Belleghem, 2013. “The Self-Service Economy”. http://www.slideshare.net/stevenvanbelleghem/the-self-serving-economy
69Ellie Behling, 2017. RRD. “10 Personalization Statistics You Need to Know: Why Personalized Marketing is the Way to Go”. https://blog.rrdonnelley.com/personalization-statistics/
70McKinsey Global Institute, 2017. “Artificial intelligence: The next digital frontier?”
71Dorothy Pomerantz, 2014. “How A Culture Of Innovation Could Win Netflix Some Emmys”. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2014/08/20/how-a-culture-of-innovation-could-win-netflix-some-emmys/#3e24ecae19cd
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75Jacada, n.d. “Vodafone “SAVES” Customers with Jacada”. Featured Customers. https://media.featuredcustomers.com/CustomerCaseStudy.document/jacada_vodafone_86215.pdf
76For an academic perspective on the future role of service robots see Jochen Wirtz (2020), “Organizational Ambidexterity: Cost-Effective Service Excellence, Service Robots, and Artificial Intelligence”, Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 49, No. 3; and Jochen Wirtz, Paul Patterson, Werner Kunz, Thorsten Gruber, Vinh Nhat Lu, Stefanie Paluch, and Antje Martins (2018), “Brave New World: Service Robots in the Frontline”, Journal of Service Management, Vol. 29, No. 5, 907-931, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOSM-04-2018-0119
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79ReferralMD, n.d. “30 Healthcare Statistics That Keep Hospital Executives Up At Night”. https://getreferralmd.com/2016/08/30-healthcare-statistics-keep-hospital-executives-night/
80Nick Tate, 2017. “4 in 5 Medical Bills Contain Errors: Here's What You Can Do”. Newsmax. https://www.newsmax.com/Health/Headline/medical-bill-error-mistake/2017/08/04/id/805882/
81 International Labour Organization, 2019. “Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work”. ILO. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_686645.pdf
82Global Education Monitoring Report Team, 2018. “Global education monitoring report, 2019: Migration, displacement and education: building bridges, not walls”. UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000265866
83Emergo by UL, n.d. “Worldwide Spending on Healthcare”. https://www.emergobyul.com/resources/worldwide-health-expenditures
84United States Environmental Protection Agency, n.d. “EPA’s Budget and Spending”. https://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget
85Multiple approaches exist to end hunger and reduce undernutrition through different investment packages, specific targets, measures, and policy pathways, leading to a wide range of costs. Estimates range from $7 billion to $265 billion per year.
86Shenggen Fan, 2018. “The multibillion dollar question: How much will it cost to end hunger and undernutrition?” ReliefWeb. https://reliefweb.int/report/world/multibillion-dollar-question-how-much-will-it-cost-end-hunger-and-undernutrition
87Here is a useful summary of how IA can help governments: McKinsey, 2019. “How governments can harness the power of automation at scale”. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/how-governments-can-harness-the-power-of-automation-at-scale
88World Health Organization, n.d. “WHO Mortality Database”. https://www.who.int/healthinfo/mortality_data/en/
89IHME, Global Burden of Disease, accessed and extracted on October 2019. http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool
90Peerapornratana S., 2019. “Acute kidney injury from sepsis: current concepts, epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention and treatment”. https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(19)30601-5/pdf
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92Ray Sipherd, 2018. “The third-leading cause of death in US most doctors don’t want you to know about”. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
93Emily Jerry Foundation. https://emilyjerryfoundation.org/emilys-story/
94Yolanda Smith, n.d. “Physician Shortage”. News Medical. https://www.news-medical.net/health/Physician-Shortage.aspx
95Wikiwand, accessed May 2020. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Physician_supply
96Baylon website: https://www.gpathand.nhs.uk/
97Tissue Analytics website: https://www.tissue-analytics.com/
98US Department of Transportation, n.d. NHTSA. https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/13069a-ads2.0_090617_v9a_tag.pdf
99Pascal Bornet, 2019. “Vehicle Action Prediction, using Artificial Intelligence”. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascalbornet_artificialintelligence-datascience-technology-activity-6515121577095458816-Mtmo
100Pascal Bornet, 2019. “The first universal self-driving add-on kit”. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascalbornet_artificialintelligence-innovation-technology-activity-6517034557676584960-TpJ8
101Watch this video of the first world’s first haptic telerobotic system. It transmits realistic touch feedback to the user located anywhere in the world. https://youtu.be/ZJh6T5TADsc
102One of the rare examples where machine learning is used to support smelling and tasting senses: Esat Dedezade, 2019. “Meet the world’s first AI-created whisky”. https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/meet-the-worlds-first-ai-created-whisky/
103Popular technology vendors are Abbyy, Taiger, Workfusion and Antwork.
104The main technology vendors on the market are Philips, Siemens and IBM Watson. New entrants with innovative solutions are Arterys, Gauss Surgical, and Zebra Medical Vision.
105Pascal Bornet, 2019. “Chester, the first AI Radiologist Assistant”. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascalbornet_artificialintelligence-technology-innovation-activity-6521401764753829888-GuSo
106Fast Company, 2017, “This AI Startup Wants To Automate Every Store Like Amazon Go”. https://www.fastcompany.com/40493622/this-ai-startup-wants-to-automate-every-store-like-amazon-go
107Pascal Bornet, 2019. “V-Count”. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascalbornet_innovation-iot-technology-activity-6492994239268524032-6N4P
108Pascal Bornet, 2019. “Intelligent Shopping now available for all shops”. https://youtu.be/adPMISvy8Qo
109Technology vendors on this market are Epiplex or Legito.
110In this video, you can watch what a Tesla's full autopilot (IA-based) sees: https://youtu.be/U1EyUGl7A48
111Watch the first iris tracking technology and read how it opens the door to amazing applications: https://youtu.be/vE-T6DUaZ1w
112Vanessa Gu, 2019. “Singapore’s vision for hands-free immigration clearance”. GovInsider. https://govinsider.asia/innovation/singapores-ica-hands-free-immigration/
113Dave Gershgorn, 2020. “This Simple Facial Recognition Search Engine Can Track You Down Across the Internet”. https://onezero.medium.com/this-simple-facial-recognition-search-engine-can-track-you-down-across-the-internet-518c7129e454
114Popular vendors on the market include Pega, Appian and Mendix.
115Pega Systems, n.d. “Award-winning case management and BPM for continuous operational excellence”. https://www.pega.com/products/pega-platform/case-management
116Here is an example in action of a low-code platform: Mendix, 2018. “Developing in Mendix Low-code Platform”. YouTube. https://youtu.be/rXR6IFxVOXE
117Popular vendors on the market include UiPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism.
118UiPath, 2020. “UiPath 2020.4 Monthly Update: A Studio Edition for Everyone”. https://www.uipath.com/blog/april-2020-uipath-monthly-update
119I. Barkin, 2019. LinkedIn Learning, “Introducing Robotic Process Automation”. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/introducing-robotic-process-automation/
120Popular technology vendors include Nuance, IPSoft, and Kore.ai.
121Sarah Perez, 2019. “Voice assistants in use to triple to 8 billion by 2023”. TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/report-voice-assistants-in-use-to-triple-to-8-billion-by-2023/
122Soul Machines, 2018. “Digital Healthcare for Tomorrow”. https://youtu.be/D2cRUAZm2mc
123Soul Machines, 2018. “Jamie's first 100 days”. YouTube. https://youtu.be/eyoBgNY1KA0
124Soul Machines, 2018. “Digital Healthcare for Tomorrow”. YouTube. https://youtu.be/D2cRUAZm2mc
125Google, 2018, “Google Duplex: A.I. Assistant Calls Local Businesses To Make Appointments”. https://youtu.be/D5VN56jQMWM
126Popular technology vendors include Iodine, Optum and 3M.
127A popular platform is Sovren.
128A popular platform is LexNLP.
129Hugh Son, 2017. “JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers 360,000 Hours”. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/jpmorgan-marshals-an-army-of-developers-to-automate-high-finance
130A popular platform is offered by CaseBank Technologies.
131P. Bornet, 2020. “Impressive new Excel function”. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Fmsgby05_vU
132P. Bornet, 2020. “When AI creates AI…”. YouTube. https://youtu.be/v5CS9njzIcc
133P. Bornet, 2020. “GPT-3 can also answer complex medical questions”. LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6691715336192032768?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A6691715336192032768%2C6691716183357571072%29
134Popular vendors include Hootsuite, Quick Search, and Critical Mention.
135Talkwalker, 2019. Competitive benchmarking. https://www.talkwalker.com/blog/sentiment-analysis-guide
136Popular vendors include Nice, Verint, and CallMiner.
137Servion Global Solutions, 2017. “Virtual Assistant - powered by Artificial Intelligence” (start watching the demo at 0:57), YouTube, https://youtu.be/ThtetGx5ct0
138For more explanation on the different machine learning algorithms available, here is one of the most comprehensive sources of information: https://machinelearningmastery.com/a-tour-of-machine-learning-algorithms/
139KDnuggets, 2019. “Which Data Science / Machine Learning methods and algorithms did you use in 2018/2019 for a real-world application?”, https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/04/top-data-science-machine-learning-methods-2018-2019.html
140Thomas Franck, 2019. “Morgan Stanley used AI to study its own analysts and figured out how to beat the market”. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/morgan-stanley-used-ai-to-study-its-analysts-and-beat-the-market.html
141Tableau, 2018. Discovering the commercial benefits with data visualization. https://datarootlabs.com/blog/complex-data-visualization-with-tableau-use-cases
142Richard Wike and Bruce Stokes, 2018. “In Advanced and Emerging Economies Alike, Worries About Job Automation”. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2018/09/13/in-advanced-and-emerging-economies-alike-worries-about-job-automation/
143The Data Warehousing Institute, n.d. “Data quality and the bottom line”. http://download.101com.com/pub/tdwi/Files/DQReport.pdf
144Headwaters Group, 2017. “Your Unstructured Data is Sexy, You Just Don’t Know It”. https://headwaters.group/your-unstructured-data-is-sexy-you-just-dont-know-it-cio-strategy/
145Leandro DalleMule and Thomas H. Davenport, HBR, 2017. The 2 Types of Data Strategies Every Company Needs. https://hbr.org/2017/05/whats-your-data-strategy
146Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz, 2019. “Google’s Duplex Uses AI to Mimic Humans (Sometimes)”. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/technology/personaltech/ai-google-duplex.html
147McKinsey Global Institute, 2017. “A future that works: automation, employment and productivity”.
148Here is a very valuable source of information on using agile in the context of automation transformations: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-new-frontier-agile-automation-at-scale
149McKinsey, 2018. “Breaking away: The secrets to scaling analytics”. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/breaking-away-the-secrets-to-scaling-analytics?cid=soc-app
150McKinsey, 2018. “Breaking away: The secrets to scaling analytics”, https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/breaking-away-the-secrets-to-scaling-analytics?cid=soc-app
151Deloitte, 2018. “State of AI in the Enterprise, 2nd Edition”. https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/cognitive-technologies/state-of-ai-and-intelligent-automation-in-business-survey.html
152McKinsey, 2018. “Building an effective analytics organization”. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/building-an-effective-analytics-organization?cid=soc-app
153McKinsey, 2018. “Building an effective analytics organization”. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/building-an-effective-analytics-organization?cid=soc-app
154Andrew Pellegrino, 2019. “The Journey to Intelligent Automation with RPA & DataRobot”. https://blog.datarobot.com/journey-to-intelligent-automation-with-rpa-and-datarobot
155McKinsey, 2019. “A recipe for banking operations efficiency”. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters/a-recipe-for-banking-operations-efficiency
156McKinsey, 2017. “The next-generation operating model for the digital world”. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-next-generation-operating-model-for-the-digital-world
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