Our guest on today’s episode is Mark Campbell, Chief Innovation Officer of Trace3, an emerging technology consulting firm based out of Irvine, California. My name is Guy Nadivi, and I’m the host of Intelligent Automation Radio. Along the way we’ll learn what questions a vendor should answer to ascertain if their product’s AI capabilities are based on engineering or marketing hype, the potential pitfalls awaiting any enterprise that decides to handle the “people problem” later, and the one biggest fear customers have about emerging technologies.
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In this episode, we chat with Mark about a number of emerging technologies from automation, AI, and machine learning to quantum computing. Navigating the labyrinth of emerging technologies is a Herculean task, and Mark has lots of sage advice on what innovations to take advantage of, as well as which ones to avoid. As Chief Innovation Officer of Trace3, Mark uses the age-old reflections of Thucydides to help advise IT executives today. Yet as unlikely as it sounds, that’s exactly what Mark Campbell believes has happened. He could not have known that 2,400 years later his writings would enter the pantheon of organizational thinking about innovation.
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Over two millennia ago, the famous ancient Greek historian Thucydides wrote about how best to dispense with Spartans. In today’s podcast we interview Mark Campbell – Chief Innovation Officer of Trace3