January 19, 2021
January 19, 2022 | Volume 12 Issue 65
- LEAD ARTICLE: Overcoming Training Challenges to Adopting AI Apps
- FEATURED ARTICLE: Project Lifecycle, Methodologies, and Standards - Project Lifecycle
- FEATURED NEWS: IBM Watson Advertising Brings AI-Driven Weather Analytics to AWS Data Exchange
- NEWS HIGHLIGHT: Retail Industry Reshapes with Hybrid Cloud and AI to Help Meet Shifting Consumer Shopping and Sustainability Preferences
- WHITE PAPER: The Power of Coding in a Low-Code Solution
- FEATURED VIDEO: Barcode400
- EVENT: FREE OCEAN Webinar: IBM Navigator - A live look at the new interface with Tim Rowe

Overcoming Training Challenges to Adopting AI Apps
Successful adoption of AI requires training both the staff needed to build or use the system as well as the AI application itself. Some of the solutions to these two problems are still being worked out.
By John Ghrist
Among the biggest challenges to successfully adopting AI in a business setting are two related to training. The first is training or finding personnel who are AI-savvy. The second is finding enough good data to train an AI application system once you have one. Looking at some of these challenges and their possible solutions is the most constructive path to follow.
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Project Lifecycle, Methodologies, and Standards - Project Lifecycle
No matter what methodology you use to manage your project, you will need an understanding of the project lifecycle. As with the methodologies, you will see variations in the phases, and the names of the phases, in the project lifecycle, but they are all fundamentally similar.
By Colleen Garton and Erika McCulloch
Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 2 of Fundamentals of Technology Project Management, by Colleen Garton and Erika McCulloch.
Throughout each of the project lifecycle phases, the project manager performs Project Direction activities. These activities include management of the standard, methodology, project, people, and communication.
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IBM Watson Advertising Brings AI-Driven Weather Analytics to AWS Data Exchange
IBM Watson Advertising and The Weather Company offer AWS Data Exchange users access to weather data and insights to inform marketing strategies
By IBM Corporation
IBM Watson Advertising today announced the availability of data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, on AWS Data Exchange, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The AWS Data Exchange allows businesses to easily find and subscribe to third-party data in the cloud.