Tuesday, November 4, 2025

AI & Process: The Ideal Combination

Quite often, organizations/people become enthusiastic about the potential of particular digital technologies, and they tend to ignite a fire of their own. As every technology goes through growing pains, like AI right now, it either fizzles out, fails, or gains altitude through wise leverage in practical ways to deliver business or personal outcomes. A really good way to ensure AI continues to deliver is to pair AI  with processes. There are three ways for AI and processes to work together. We recognize that various processes and types of AI can be combined to achieve successful outcomes. To read more on the different types of AI, click here, and to read about the types of processes, click here. There are three major ways to combine these proven and useful technologies enumerated below.


AI Designing the Best Processes:

This is where a business professional or individual describes the types of results, the resources available, and the activities necessary to produce those results. AI can then suggest contributing mini workflows, process snippets, or end-to-end processes. The designer can select the best-of-breed combination of workflows or processes that best suit the situation. This is a new and emerging approach that is likely to gain popularity and can be represented by a process model for human approval. 

AI Supporting Existing Processes: 

AI has the ability to serve processes by supplying instantaneous data and information sources to the processes themselves or the resources participating in the process at the nanosecond level. AI can also interpret in the proper context to make crucial decisions in operational, tactical, and strategic processes, supervised or unsupervised. Upon appropriate decisions, AI can help take the proper actions. Resources can be supercharged to tackle more complex decisions and tasks with the aid of AI. The processes and the supporting resources are mostly in control here. 

Process Supporting AI: 

When AI is driven towards outcomes that are described by goals and limited by guardrails, processes can be supported by completing actions that AI deems appropriate at the time. AI could be on the edge and collaborating with other AI agents statically or dynamically in this case. AI can also be monitored as it follows its chosen paths by representing those paths in a process model that can be interpreted by humans or other technologies in a standard interchange format.  

Net; Net:

Process and AI are well-suited for each other under a wide range of circumstances, as process provides a framework for accomplishing both simple and complex results. While AI appears to be struggling on the vendor side due to consolidation and pushing too far too fast, the adoption of AI can be accelerated in businesses and among consumers by integrating it with existing processes and customer interfaces represented by processes. 





Wednesday, October 22, 2025

AI Helps Introduce My Music to Peeps

As a creative, I enjoy writing songs and creating art.  As a music producer, songwriter, and vocalist, I found myself with a catalog of songs our team created with an audience of friends, family, and business associates. Well, this is fine, but I wanted to reach out and promote the stories in my songs as I start with the story and lyrics. My team and I then craft music to match and/or alter the lyrics. While streaming helps a bit, you have to actively market your songs because every day, thousands of songs are created by folks today, and tomorrow, AI will add to the mix. So, how can I encourage my audience to grow? Well, AI now plays a role. 



AI to the Rescue

My co-producer and genius partner, Ethan Foxx was using AI videos to promote his songs. So Ethan taught me how to create AI videos synchronized with the songs we both produced. I went on my own after a couple of collaborative videos Ethan and I created. I learned how to script for Kaiber AI and create my own AI music videos. It's been a blast waiting overnight for AI to render a video, and now I see the results. It usually takes me two or three times before I get a Video I like. I figured the best way to expand my audience was to post the videos on YouTube and TikTok, targeting a younger demographic. Well,  the results have been pretty impressive, as you can see above in the image from TikTok. Over 11K likes and over 200K views. You can find me on TikTok, or click here for YouTube access. The most popular videos are "Forgive" and "Dark Star Love". The best video is "Cry for Creation"




Monday, October 20, 2025

What Did Folks Read in the 3Q 2025?

 There was a definite shift in topics from a myopic AI driven interest to a more balanced approach as we are in an AI bubble about to burst for the AI vendor sector. There will be vender consolidation and more pragmatic approcah to applying AI to customer experiences and business processes in most industtries. This leaves exotic agentic AI for specific insutries that have distributed infrastructure that can act on it's own behalf. Below is a chart indicating hot topics for the 3Q 2025 and the countries other than the US, China and Russia that are active on my blog. It was an active quarter for reading my blog.

                                                        Hot Topics for the 3rd Quarter 2025


                                               Country Activity for My Blog 

                                    




Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Up For a Grammy: Wohoo

 Good news for my team and me. We are officially balloted for the 68th Grammys. It's a key step, but now we need nominations. If you know anyone who is a Grammy voter, please consider recommending us. Wish us luck 

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Situational Analysis Video Interview


Situation Analysis (SA) is a key component of strategic management and delivers key benefits if done properly. SA is essential to guide SWOT analysis. This video discusses some of the more recent improvements and the use of a more valuable and updated version of situation analysis. There is an emphasis on the productivity gains by using GenAI and other AI capabilities. Separating out landscape analysis from the SWOT portion positions the landscape insight available for more focused analysis, such as competitor, market, and technology trends.




The Video Covers the Following Key Issues:
  1. Why is Situational Analysis Important?
  2. What are the Benefits of Situational Analysis?
  3. What are the Critical Mistakes Organizations Make with SA?

      Click here for the Video 

      Click here for the Background of the Expert Frank Kowalkowsk

      Click here for the Background of the Interviewer, Jim Sinur


      Additional Reading:

      Situational Analysis with SWOT 


 

Friday, August 1, 2025

New Book to Guide Your Digital & AI Journeys

 Organizations face numerous opportunities and challenges in leveraging both maturing and emerging technologies. The authors of a new and exciting book believe that processes and customer journeys are a great place to innovate, leverage, and gain traction in thriving and capitalizing with AI for both planning processes ahead of time and depicting the behaviors and actions of AI in a process model. This new book demonstrates how processes can facilitate the creation, completion, and verification of desired outcomes. Please click here for a link to Amazon, where you can purchase a copy for your reference. 


Additional books of interest include:

Business Process Management: The Next Wave 

Digital Transformation: A Brief Guide for Game Changers




Tuesday, May 20, 2025

What are People Reading in 2025?

There was a shift in early 2025 to topics of tradition over the massive interest in AI exhibited in 2024. It's not that folks aren't following through with AI; they are combining and contrasting proven methods and tech, so show AI in the context of success. You can refer to 2024's hot topics by clicking here. 


There was also a shift in active countries other than the US and China. The northern European countries are typically well represented, but other than Norway, the mix is very different than usual.