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On Monday 3rd October, we welcomed our new cohort of the MSc in Digital Transformation Management & Leadership (MDT Class of 2024) at ESCP London Campus.
With 50 students representing 23 unique nationalities and an average working experience of 3 years, we cannot wait to see how they will innovate and co-create the unique learning experience on their path to becoming the digital innovators and tech experts that companies need. We wish you all best of luck in your studies!
On Monday 4th July 2022, we held an MSc Graduation Ceremony at the beautiful Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris, France for our MSc in Energy Management Class of 2022 and MSc in Digital Transformation Management & Leadership Class of 2022 and Class of 2021 students.
We extend our warm congratulations to all graduates and wish you all a tremendous success in your future endeavours!
Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Top image in Google Search comes from an IEEE item that offers five ways to measure the success of your digital transformation.
Here are the five ways.
1. Your employee’s productivity has gone up. If staff engagement and productivity have improved and employees are able to dedicate their time to more important activities, you know your digitization efforts are proving effective. To ensure you are meeting this goal, determine a way to track employee productivity.
2. You see a return on your investment. Instead of looking solely at your revenue, compare sales before and after the digitization. Consider variables like project costs and shifting economic and market conditions.
3. Your employees have been able to fully adapt to your digital transformation. To measure adaptation, you need a system or process in place to determine if and how your employees are using new software. This tool will help you make decisions about what technologies and systems are bringing value to your organization.
4. Your rate of innovation has improved. The amount of innovation that comes out of your digitization efforts is a good indication that these efforts have been successful. This goes beyond providing new digital products and services — it means “making digital experiences as intuitive and streamlined as possible.”
5. You are reaching a greater number of customers. To understand how many customers you are reaching, you should track how they are finding you online using digital tools, and use this data to make improvements and further boost your retention.
His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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When AI Leaves the Theater and Enters the Engine Room - IMRAN®
For a while, enterprise AI spending had a slightly performative feel to it. Boards wanted to know the company had an AI strategy. CEOs wanted to signal momentum. Innovation teams wanted to show activity. Vendors, of course, were happy to help everybody look busy. So a lot of money went into pilots, proofs of concept, internal demos, and shiny copilots that made for great town hall slides.
That phase is not over everywhere, but it is ending in the places that matter. What I see now is a much more serious question taking over: not “What can we do with AI?” but “What deserves a real operating budget?” That is a very different conversation. Once finance, security, legal, compliance, procurement, and business unit leadership all get involved, AI stops being a magic trick and starts becoming what it always had to become: another enterprise capability that has to justify itself.
And that is where things get interesting. Because the budget is not really flowing to AI in the abstract. It is flowing to the parts of the stack that make AI usable, survivable, and repeatable inside a real company. The demo may be the sexy part. The operating model is where the money goes.
I have seen this pattern enough times now that it feels obvious. A company starts by saying it wants an internal AI assistant, or a knowledge bot, or some kind of enterprise copilot. On the surface that sounds like an application discussion. But very quickly the real work turns out to be identity, permissions, stale content, conflicting documents, governance, retrieval quality, observability, and trust.
In other words, the real spend is not just on “the AI.” It is on everything required to make the AI not embarrass the company. That is why so much of the real budget is going into infrastructure, data readiness, security, and workflow integration rather than just model experimentation.
The center of gravity is shifting from curiosity to operationalization. That is also why the strongest AI spend is showing up in places where the economics can actually be defended. Not vague transformation language. Not innovation theater. But specific workflows where somebody can say, “This reduced cycle time,” or “This improved throughput,” or “This helped us close cases faster,” or “This reduced manual effort in a measurable way.”
That is the point where AI stops being interesting and starts being valuable. And honestly, that is healthy. Every technology wave eventually has to leave the stage and enter the engine room. AI is now entering the engine room.
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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The Honorable Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire (Rwanda) at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Artificial Intelligence Technology Awards
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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InnoBridge, a structured programme for innovative projects, is about to start.
Over the next few months, representatives of companies and organisations, renowned scientists and students will work together on innovative projects. This cooperation between ESCP Europe Business School’s Berlin campus and Profund Innovation, Freie Universität Berlin (FU), is sponsored by Berliner Wirtschaft.
The first part of InnoBridge is all about mobility. This kick-off event took place in DB mindbox Berlin, the Innovation Lab of Deutsche Bahn, with more than 10 companies and almost 70 students and researchers.
Ellen Taylor, Generation Connect youth delegate at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Duncan Rawlinson’s artwork, The AI Wave, captures the dynamic energy and transformative spirit of artificial intelligence. This abstract image features a powerful wave form illuminated with vibrant orange and blue hues, set against a dark, minimalist background. The glowing, digital aesthetic of the wave embodies the rapid flow of AI innovation, symbolizing the momentum and impact of the technology trend. Perfect for fans of tech-inspired art, this piece visually represents the bold, futuristic energy of the AI era.
His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General, ITU at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
©ITU/ Y. Simbi
Ellen Taylor, Generation Connect youth delegate at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
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His Excellency Mr Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda at the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) Kigali, Rwanda, 6 to 16 June 2022.
©ITU/ D.Woldu
Artificial Intelligence Technology Awards
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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #DataScience #DigitalTransformation #DigitalMarketing #VirtualReality #Cloud #InternetofThings #IoT #FintechAwards #Awards #blockchain #fintech #autonomous
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