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"

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 

                                    

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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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 

 

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

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.  

Preorder Practical Business Process Modeling and Analysis:

This book should be handy for those who want to master digital change with incremental business process management modeled for AI transformation. All authors have significant real-world experience and are thought leaders in digital processes and customer experiences. Click here to preorder 

Book Description

Every business transformation begins with a question: How can we do this better? Whether it’s eliminating inefficiencies, optimizing business operations, automating repetitive tasks, or reimagining entire workflows with the help of AI, success depends on understanding and optimizing business processes. However, with shifting market demands and evolving technologies, finding the right approach can be challenging.

This book dives into business process modelling, guiding you through frameworks, techniques, and tools that drive digital transformation. You'll learn to visualize complex workflows, establish scalable process architectures, and integrate automation for efficiency. With insights into BPMN and business value analysis, you'll discover how data-driven decisions can lead to smarter, more agile operations. Through real-world examples, you’ll see how leading organizations have optimized their processes and how you can apply the same principles while embarking on a digital change program.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design, analyze, and refine business processes for measurable impact. You'll master the synergy of technology, process, and strategy to build adaptable systems that drive sustainable growth in digital transformation.

What you will learn: 

Build scalable process architectures for long-term efficiency and adaptability.
Avoid common pitfalls in digital transformation and automation.
Apply real-world strategies and frameworks to optimize operations effectively.
Discover methods and tools to enhance business process analysis and decision-making.
Learn how BPMN can be extended for scenarios like process simulation and risk management.
Measure and maximize business value from process transformation efforts.

Who this book is for

Whether you're a business analyst, project manager, consultant, or strategist, you likely face challenges in streamlining workflows, optimizing processes, or integrating AI and automation. This book provides the tools, techniques, and frameworks to visualize, analyze, and improve business operations. Some familiarity with business processes and technology is helpful, but no prior expertise in BPMN or automation is required.