Bot Thoughts A Digital Platform for Growth Software tailored to your particular needs is a great way to plan for growth. But growing can add unpredictability as well. Cognitive computing solutions can provide the flexibility you need to capture the
Bot Thoughts New Tech, Old Fashioned Customer Service Artificial intelligence can be used to deeply customize every customer touch point, scaling personal service to everyone. Funnel automated experiences into meaningful human interactions seamlessly, and let the AI keep your people engaged
Bot Thoughts High Tech at High Altitude Our clients are everywhere but we call Colorado home. From incredible talent to fresh, mountain air with unparalleled views of the night sky at 14 thousand feet, Colorado has a lot to offer
Bot Thoughts It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This The right technology partner makes all the difference in the world. But it's hard to jump into a big engagement before you've had the chance to try out the working relationship. That's why
Bot Thoughts AI as a Human Experience The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything… ‘When Oz gives me a heart of course I
Bot Thoughts Machine Vision for Operational Visibility Machine Vision (MV), along with natural language generation (NLG), are two of the most exciting and readily available tools for intelligent systems today. From cheap, commodity cameras to wide spectrum light sensors, self-documenting
Bot Thoughts Data with Honesty Issues Teach bias and, in most cases, you’ll only get bias back. There are dozens more logical and statistical fallacies to be avoided if you’d prefer actionable insights to a hollow echo
Bot Thoughts Commodity Software vs Solution Specific Value As new languages, tools, and platforms continue to improve, features that most solutions require become less and less valuable to own from an intellectual property perspective. User login, for example, needs to stay
Bot Thoughts A Process to Manage Complexity As long term technology partners, our iterative process starts with a creative, Design Thinking workshop built to innovate with the business and also to ruthlessly root out assumptions. Then we dive into agile,
Bot Thoughts Agile, Strategic Planning Machine learning means software that can adapt, shouldn’t the digital strategy be just as agile? Our time tested, value focused strategic process has helped hundreds of projects deliver results. Now, it’s
Bot Thoughts Cutting Through the Hype When it comes to software, and especially newer technologies like cognitive computing, beware the lure of SOS: Shiny Object Syndrome. Well informed, measurable strategy doesn’t have to be a long and tedious
Bot Thoughts Flip That App Sometimes “Technology Refresh” is putting it kindly. Older, traditional apps have a way of suffering bit-rot, especially in plumbing nobody likes to maintain. That’s why we built the Boxcar Cloud Platform™. Never
Bot Thoughts Technology with Heart Welcome, thanks for dropping by, I’ll be your personal guide. At Tinman, we’re on a mission to save the world from static, expensive software. We believe in empowered people and businesses
Bot Thoughts Common Sense Approach in the Era of Big Tech Being good actors, especially on the edges of technology, is always in our best interests. While using AI as a tool to empower, inform, and enrich the human experience may seem like common
Bot Thoughts The AI Biographer When the AI XPRIZE asked us to pick one of humanity's "Grand Challenges", some may wonder why we chose storytelling. We believe stories, especially personal ones, have the power to shape
Bot Thoughts Boot Camp to Modernize Sometimes before considering taking on any new projects, you just need some expert guidance in the latest tools, lingo, a healthy dose of real world examples. Technology moves fast, but it’s our
Bot Thoughts Where to Begin We get asked how to get started all the time. That’s why we created an Art of the Possible workshop. One part education, one part discovery, and two parts strategy, send your
Bot Thoughts Succeed at Inventing Something New By Failing Faster It’s well known (but no less scary) that sometimes you have to fail to succeed. As inventors, we understand this balancing act all too well. That’s why we built accelerator tools
Bot Thoughts Siloed Systems = Siloed Organizations Organizational agility suffers when the barrier to entry to professional grade software is too high. “Citizen developers” and small teams have brought new life to the ability for a company to adapt but
Bot Thoughts A Neglected Competitive Advantage: Brand In a social media world, companies are increasingly put upon the world stage even when they have no idea. Employees can act as the ultimate brand ambassadors (or not), customers are starved for
Bot Thoughts Insight Driven Decision Making Big data has been a driver of Deep Learning insights, but what can you do if you’re just starting your data journey, or have small data to work with? Today, a lot
Bot Thoughts Market Agility 2.0 Market agility is organizational agility. Technology that can learn and evolves to your needs is a critical first step but solid change management – for employees, customers, and vendors – is the lifeblood of effective
Bot Thoughts An Unspoken Risk in Time to Market Back when we had no choice, bespoke software or big data science projects would be planned for years before releasing a version 1.0. Data would be painstakingly cleansed, systems would go through
Bot Thoughts Digital Thinking for Traditional Products Agile, lean, adaptive, and renewable revenue thinking doesn’t just apply to digital products anymore. Increasingly, companies are applying these tools, techniques, and business models to transform traditional products. A good place to
Bot Thoughts In Pursuit of a Truly Individualized Customer Experience (CX) Personalization has been a hot topic for years, but moving from demographics and personas to individuals is a leap only possible in the age of adaptive AI. Your CX strategy should be no