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Industry analyst and columnist, Jeff Kagan spoke to Engati about using AI to overtake your competitors
Jeff Kagan is a powerful and influential member of the wireless, telecom, technology, digital health, and healthcare community and is also a speaker, consultant, and bestselling author.
He’s worked with many Wireless networks and handset companies, Digital Health, HealthIT, Healthcare as well as many smaller competitors in wireless, telecom, pay TV, Internet, AI, IoT, cloud space, digital health, healthcare, automotive, Fintech, and more.
Interview with Jeff Kagan
This section will contain a summary of our interview with Jeff Kagan, but if you'd like to hear him speak, we have our Spotify podcast embedded below.
The technology we are using today far outpaces anything that we've used in the past. And most of it has come up over the past decade.
It's all pretty much brand new.
And this is transforming not only the wireless industry and telecom industry but many other industries.
AI, IoT, Cloud, all these technologies are going to allow service providers to reach their customers in brand new ways. They're going to allow doctors and hospitals to reach patients in brand new ways.
The entire tech business is very different than it was 5 or 10 years ago and it's going to be just as different 5-10 years down the line.
Businesses are going to accept it, embrace it, and take advantage of it. The question is,
When are they going to do this?
Different businesses and different industries are going to embrace it at a different point in time.
Some areas already embracing it. Some will embrace it in a little while. A few will embrace it late. And some will just sit it out.
The early adopters are the innovators who are going to stand out.
The later adopters will be players, but they won't shape the direction in which it goes.
And the ones that sit it out are the ones that are going to fall behind. These are the ones that are going to miss the next growth wave.
5G is just the highway. We need to think about what it's going to enable and what it's going to lead to.
The growth potential is enormous.
Not every company is going to be a leader. But, the opportunity is still there.
AI and IoT have really exploded on the scene.
But it's been in development for a long time. IBM Watson literally won Jeopardy! a decade ago.
Businesses have been using AI for a long time without telling everyone. And in the last 5 years, it's really taken off.
Companies have been gathering vast amounts of data. More data than humans can even dream of going through themselves.
And AI is what they're turning to in order to analyze and interpret it.
AI is going to take the front page and centre stage. It's been hiding in the back in the past decade, but now it's coming into the light.
The early adopters are clearly driving the change in industries.
And they're forcing their competitors to adopt AI too.
As AI continues to transform the way we do business and the way we live our lives, businesses won't really have much of a choice. They're going to have to adopt AI.
They're going to get left behind if they don't. Some of them may even end up going out of business in the years to come due to their refusal to adopt AI.
The next level is essentially that conversations are going to get better.
Having conversations with machines is definitely going to become part of our future. The issue is that some companies are going to do an amazing job and some are going to do a decent job.
The companies which continuously improve their conversational technology are the ones that are going to win.
There's a lot of different technologies that are going to support business transformations.
AI, IoT, and the Cloud are going to be pervasive across all industries. As a result, they're going to be transforming businesses.
Everything in the world is going to change in the next few years. It's just like everything has changed in the past few years.
We have to figure out which companies and technologies are on the growth side of the growth waves. Not the cresting side, not the falling side, but the growth side.
That's where you want to be as an investor, employee, or user. Because that's where all the new opportunities are going to come from.
