What insights into digital transformation and AI are available?

Today, there are many times more digital sensors in the world than people. Combining these with advances in computing power and communications technologies, big data and machine learning are now starting to deliver on their promises to transform business and society.
 
Imperial experts are helping businesses to understand the fundamentals of new digital technologies and find ways to apply them to a range of business challenges. They are also helping industry partners to understand the ethical implications of AI and ensure that new technology promotes happiness and wellbeing rather than working against it.

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Leading Digital Transformation

mperial College Business School’s Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT) has identified four major pillars for innovation that can address fundamental challenges regarding digital transformation.

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AI in pharma and medicine

Read how experts from Imperial and our industry partners are rethinking how pharmaceuticals and medicine can be designed, manufactured and distributed thanks to advances in AI.

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Automated decision making & Design psychology

The craft of automated decision making

This article explores Machine Learning (ML), considering what is driving its increasingly wide usage, the advantages and risks of using it, and the organisational capabilities required in order to utilise ML.

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Design psychology

Whether we believe that digital technologies are “good” or “bad” for us, most will have found themselves feeling enslaved by technology at some point. This Technical Digest article addresses how digital technologies, platforms, and services could be created with our mental health in mind.

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Ethical AI and

Ethical AI and automation

Machine learning and AI has come a long way, with applications across multiple industries and sectors. But as our deployment of the technology increases, we need to be careful that we are asking the right questions and can trust the outcomes provided.

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Cyber security and business resilience

All businesses need cybersecurity. The ability to endure and recover from threats to your business is vital in a growing digital world. Professor Deeph Chana discusses the need for companies to adapt their risk models while maintaining consumers trust quickly.

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AI and natural hazards & Discover more

AI and natural hazards

As the effects of climate change accelerate, risk managers in government and business are finding it increasingly challenging to understand and mitigate the human and economic risks of natural hazards such as wildfires and cyclones. New developments in artificial intelligence promise solutions.

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IBP works across multiple industries, and we curate insights via briefings, events and video to offer a snapshot of the cutting edge research and innovation.

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Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation: Digitalisation and regulatory issues Play video

Digitalisation and regulatory issues

Drawing on his experiences as Chief Competition Economist for the European Commission, Professor Tommaso Valletti will unpack significant regulatory issues encountered by companies invested in digitalization, such as antitrust and consumer data privacy. He assesses how different big tech companies - Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple in particular - have faired against these regulations and consumer trust over the past 20 years.

 

Digital Transformation: Digitalisation and regulatory issues

Digitalisation and regulatory issues

To succeed as a business based on digital products and platforms and prevent litigative intervention

Drawing on his experiences as Chief Competition Economist for the European Commission, Professor Tommaso Valletti will unpack significant regulatory issues encountered by companies invested in digitalization, such as antitrust and consumer data privacy. He assesses how different big tech companies - Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple in particular - have faired against these regulations and consumer trust over the past 20 years.

 

Digital Transformation: Human-centric design thinking

Digital Transformation: Human-centric design thinking

Discussions around digital transformation in business are of

Dr Ileana Stigliani discusses the value of using Design Thinking to drive digital transformation. By empathising with the needs and pain points of users and by using digital technologies to deliver innovative solutions to meet these needs, this approach, which starts from outside of the organization to drive change internally, helps businesses embrace the complex challenges of digital transformation in a way that is not only human-centred but also more effective.

Digital Transformation: Supporting business with natural lan

Digital Transformation: Supporting business with natural lan

Professor Lucia Specia provides an overview on the most recent developments in NLP

Natural language processing (NLP) technologies can support businesses in various ways by enabling or facilitating human-human (e.g. word prediction, machine translation) and human-machine communication (e.g. chatbots). Professor Lucia Specia provides an overview on the most recent developments in NLP, in particular those based on deep learning, as well as current challenges in the field.

Digital Transformation: The innovation potential of network-

Digital Transformation: The innovation potential of network-

Professor Michael Bronstein discusses the power of network based artificial intelligence

Professor Michael Bronstein discusses the power of network based artificial intelligence to enable product and service innovations in a variety of industry contexts, from healthcare and nutrition through to algorithms to provide more personalised experiences on social media and streaming services such as Netflix

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