The definitive guide to generative AI for industry

The Riseof the ‘DigitalMaverick’ Characterized by strategic, big-picture thinking, relentless determination, strong business understanding, technical prowess, and sometimes a chip on their shoulder, the digital maverick is a new breed of industrial leader who is critical for taking an industrial digital transformation program and making it truly meaningful and valuable with the advent of industrial AI.

While other members of digital operations teams think about deploying operational use cases and analytics, the digital maverick is thinking about building new long-term business capabilities. Instead of searching for keywords such as: “what is an industrial chatbot?,” “good data management platforms,” or “digital operations dashboards,” the digital maverick craves and drives clarity on new ideas such as “ChatGPT for operations,” “retrieval augmented generation,” “AI and contextualized data,” and “autonomous digital factory.”

They also know from experience what has not worked well enough to deliver meaningful value from previous attempts at industrial AI either from seeing first-hand more noise than value (unreliable models, too many false positives, constant retraining), or outright failure of AI deployments to create meaningful change in operator workflows. The digital maverick knows there’s a solution to the age-old industrial challenge of operating complex environments with limited insights and sub-optimal decision-making.