Stop Layering AI on Top of a Broken Foundation

Data expert and Bell Labs alumnus Fern Halper shares why organizations stall at the pilot phase—and how to build the trust and governance needed for real business impact.

BY TIM CRINO, SENIOR EDITOR, INC.

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Fern Halper is the founder of the AI Foundations Group and VP of Research at TDWI. An early data scientist at Bell Labs, she has spent more than 20 years studying how organizations adopt and scale data and AI. Through her research and work with enterprise leaders, she has found that most AI initiatives don’t fail because of the technology—they fail because organizations aren’t prepared for it. Her new book, Data Makes the World Go ’Round: The Data, Tech, and Trust........

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