TMI / GLOSSARY
INTELLIGENT COMPANY
Definition. An intelligent company can reach and trust its own information without asking a person to assemble it first, and turns that information into decisions, automation, software and better judgment.
WHAT IT
MEANS.
The emphasis is on reach and trust. Almost every established company already holds the information it needs somewhere — in accounting, in job files, on a whiteboard, in twenty years of quotes, in the owner's head. What makes a company intelligent is not having more of it. It is that the information can be got at, by someone other than its author, quickly enough to change a decision.
That is a deliberately unglamorous definition. It says nothing about artificial intelligence, because a company that cannot produce last month's margin by job type is not going to be rescued by a model. The sequence runs the other way round.
WHAT IT
IS NOT.
An AI company
An intelligent company is a buyer of technology, not a seller of it. TMI builds these; TMI is not an AI company and does not describe itself as one.
A company with dashboards
A dashboard is a surface. A company can have nine of them and still be unable to answer a question, because the numbers underneath disagree.
Every term in this glossary is one TMI uses in client work, which is the only reason it is here. The rest of the glossary →
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