The Sentient Enterprise

I just have read the innovative book "The Sentient Enterprise", written by Oliver Ratzesberger and Mohanbir Sawhney.

This book is a "must read" for all of us involved in the improvement of the decision processes.

To clarify why, it is worthy to mention only two fundamental IT problems that are analyzed inside the book:

• Why the enterprises are wasting human resources, time, efforts, their computing power, and money by unnecessary duplicating data?
• Why the IT analytic solutions are usually delayed, and many times become obsolete when they are finally finished?

In order to help solving these issues, Ratzerberger and Sawhney introduce a model with five stages:

1. The Agile Data Platform
2. The Behavioral Data Platform
3. The Collaborative Ideation Platform
4. The Analytical Application Platform
5. The Autonomous Decisioning Platform

This approach decomposes the huge problem: better decisions, and allows to develop specific solutions for each stage; thus making the whole process affordable.

I specifically recommend reading in detail chapter 7 "The Autonomous Decisioning Platform", and chapter 8 "Implementing Your Course to Sentience".

These chapters expose important guidelines, and introduce a perspective that matches most of the research topics behind the Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS)