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Unleashing the power of AI for M&A decisions

Learn the basics of Decision Optimization in M&A: what it is, how it works, and how to get started.

The Danger of Regret in Management Decision-Making

In the world of business management, decisions are the lifeblood of success. Each choice made, whether big or small, has the potential to shape the future of a company. Yet, beneath the surface of every decision, there lies an often-underestimated threat: regret. Regret is a powerful emotion that can significantly influence management decisions. It's closely tied to outcome bias, which leads to irrational subsequent actions. In this article, we'll explore the dangerous relationship between regret, outcome bias, and irrationality in management decisions. To illustrate these concepts, we'll delve into two classic examples – failing to acquire a target company or invest in a particular technology, and selling a stock too early.

Quantifying the Potential: Exploring Gains from ADAS to LiDAR in Autonomous Driving Opportunities

Autonomous driving (AD) has the potential to transform the way consumers experience mobility, offering enhanced safety, convenience, and enjoyment. Time previously spent behind the wheel could be redirected towards activities like video calls with friends, watching movies, or work. Commuters may see increased productivity and shorter workdays with autonomous vehicles (AVs), as they can perform tasks during the commute. This could also enable employees to live farther from the office, potentially attracting more people to rural areas and suburbs. Additionally, AD could improve mobility options for elderly drivers, expanding beyond public transportation or car-sharing services. Safety gains are also anticipated, with a study projecting a 15 percent reduction in accidents by 2030 through advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) adoption in Europe.

The Problem with Averages in Management Decision-Making

In the dynamic world of business, effective decision-making is paramount for organizational success. Yet, one often overlooked pitfall is the reliance on averages. Consider a scenario where a manager calculates a promising 25% return on investment (ROI) based on average figures. However, this approach assumes deterministic outcomes, ignoring the stochastic uncertainty inherent in real-world business.

Navigating the Complexities of Technology Valuation with Decision Optimization

In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the valuation game has shifted, placing innovation at its core. Biotech, automotive, and AI industries showcase this shift, where technology is the linchpin in a nuanced dance of valuation. Challenges emerge as traditional frameworks struggle to encapsulate rapidly evolving technologies. Understanding their worth becomes crucial, requiring a nuanced approach to capture the essence of these intangible assets. At its core, valuing technology aligns with fundamental principles—the present value of future cash flows. From direct product revenue growth to licensing patents and cost savings, technology generates crucial cash flows shaping a company's value. Navigating this intricate landscape extends beyond predicting revenue, involving a meticulous assessment of future cash flow scenarios. The Decision Optimization System (DeOS) emerges as a streamlined solution, revolutionizing technology valuation by automating processes and providing unique insights. As technologies evolve, DeOS stands at the forefront, redefining the valuation game and turning the challenge of assessing technology's worth into a strategic advantage.

Who Makes the Better Deal?

Schaeffler's recent announcement of its voluntary purchase offer for all outstanding Vitesco Technologies shares and subsequent merger into Schaeffler AG raises the question: Who benefits more? In the world of mergers and acquisitions, the advantage typically goes to the party with superior information. To evaluate this deal, we'll analyze it from a market-driven perspective, considering essential financial metrics crucial for informed investment decisions.

5 reasons European Tier-1s have a serious problem

The European automotive industry, once a pillar of the continent's economy, is facing unprecedented challenges. Emerging technologies, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), are reshaping the landscape. Non-European players, especially in the EV market, have surged ahead, while traditional European giants are losing ground.

DeOS - A new category of software

DeOS serves as a unified platform designed to convert information into enhanced business outcomes by infusing AI into management decisions and optimizing the entire decision-making process, spanning from data to actionable steps across various organizational use cases.

Generative AI for business forecasting

In our recent benchmarking study, we showed, that DeepFeatTimeGPT outperforms top-tier consulting firms and investment banks by huge margins in terms of accuracy, transparency, speed, efficiency, and costs.Our forecasting models are fully integrated into decision workflows into DeOS - the Decision Optimization system, letting you apply this powerful model right out of the box for your business data without the need for technical knowledge.

Supercharge your analysts with Hybrid Intelligence

By harmoniously weaving together the elements of hybrid intelligence—contextual completion, standardized questions, aggregated expertise, and independent judgment—organizations empower their decision-makers to unprecedented heights. In an era where data proliferates, but wisdom remains invaluable, hybrid intelligence emerges as a beacon of promise for those eager to harness the full spectrum of human and machine capabilities.

Unleashing Business Potential

This article delves into the world of Business Intelligence (BI) and its integration with AI-powered tools like DeOS. It highlights the significance of BI in data-driven decision-making and explains how DeOS enhances BI with AI to maximize business value. The article emphasizes the importance of informed decision-making, competitive advantage, and performance optimization through BI. It also touches upon the distinctions between BI, Decision Intelligence, and Decision Optimization. Ultimately, the article underscores how DeOS revolutionizes decision-making, making it data-driven, informed, and optimized for success in a rapidly evolving business landscape.

Introducing DeOS Agent: Your AI Assistant for Enterprise Question Answering

DeOS Agent is a game-changer in the realm of enterprise question answering. With its advanced AI capabilities, seamless integration into existing workflows, access to diverse data sources, real-time adaptation, and robust compliance and security measures, DeOS Agent empowers business analysts to make informed decisions with confidence. It revolutionizes how information is accessed and utilized, providing valuable insights for legal and tax due diligence, commercial due diligence, market research, competitive analysis, and pricing strategy formulation. DeOS Agent is the ultimate tool for maximizing efficiency and staying ahead in today's dynamic business landscape.

Revolutionize your decision-making with DeepFeatSimulate: The next generation of business simulations

The article introduces DeepFeatSimulate, a deep learning model for business simulations that uses cutting-edge technology to simulate complex and non-linear business scenarios. The model combines various techniques, including variational autoencoder, GANs, autoregressive models, and Gaussian copula, to learn the data generation process of business dynamics. One of the key advantages of DeepFeatSimulate is its ability to learn the context and relation between financial value drivers, enabling simulation of complex, non-linear business scenarios. The technology is even able to simulate novel and innovative scenarios that have not happened in the past, allowing businesses to explore new and previously untested ideas. With its ability to represent the relevant business world with over 91% accuracy, DeepFeatSimulate has the potential to revolutionize the way that businesses make decisions.

How DeepFeatTimeGPT is disrupting financial forecasting

The current method of financial forecasting, which relies on manual, expensive, and time-consuming spreadsheet-based processes, is broken. That is why we created DeepFeatTime, our cutting-edge multimodal deep learning model for probabilistic forecasting. It outperforms even the top investment banks by a significant margin, providing results quickly and at a low cost to make the best decision-making accessible to everyone. This technology democratizes access to outperforming decision augmentation to companies of any size. Our technical report provides full transparency into the scientific evaluation of our model.

Strategy for the 21st century

Learn why you should go from yearly planning and roadmaps to fast and continuous decisions, and get started with augmented decision-making today.

Decision Performance

Decision performance is the ability to manage uncertainty with skill and take the optimal action in the context of your business at the right time. Optimal in this case means that typically in business, there is no single right or best decision. It will highly depend on the situation your organization is. Take for example an upcoming, fast growing competitor. If you are an incumbent firm, your best decision might be to acquire them. If you are a SME or startup, however, this might not be even realistic to consider. Your business might rather try to partner or out compete in a certain niche.

Decision Augmentation Data Sources

Connecting four types of data across the organization enables you to create a strategic asset for your business to compete on strategic decision-making and being able to leverage uncertainty to your benefit. The ultimate advantage in the era of uncertainty.

Biases in Strategic Decision-Making

This article aims at helping to understand why they make decisions as they do (although we probably do not like to hear that) and also to provide an explanation of why those people behave as they do. Therefore, we will show you the most popular biases in strategic decisions and why they are becoming even more prevalent in the age of digital technology. Those findings are based on literature and our research on this topic. Understanding such biases can accelerate how we as innovation executives improve our decisions.

It's all about decisions

Decisions cover a broad range of types within the context of business and beyond. In the context of business, typically you differentiate between three types of decisions depending on the level of complexity they involve and the business value impact they have.

Distr@l High Tech Grant for Project DeepFeat

vencortex is excited to announce that our team received another grant funding for R&D of our decision augmentation technology by the Distr@l program as part of #hessendigital strategy.

Hybrid Intelligence - First Rate Humans, Not Second Class Robots

Our research advisor and collaborator Jacob Sherson, founding director of the Center for #hybridintelligence and ScienceAtHome and professor at Aarhus University discusses how these two challenges may potentially be overcome by the second trend

Revisiting Citizen Science Through the Lens of Hybrid Intelligence

Citizen science and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform our understanding of the world around us, and their use in scientific research will be examined in this paper.

Deskilling, upskilling, and reskilling: a case for hybrid intelligence

Advances in AI technology affect knowledge work in diverse fields, including healthcare, engineering, and management. Although automation can increase efficiency and lower costs, it can also, as an unintended consequence, deskill workers, who lose valuable skills that would otherwise be maintained as part of their daily work. Such deskilling has a wide range of negative effects on multiple stakeholders –– employees, organizations, and society at large. Hybrid Intelligence moves beyond traditional AI approaches by envisioning socio-technical systems in which humans and machine learning algorithms frame and solve tasks together. This essay discusses how Hybrid Intelligence could help manage the risk of deskilling human experts by focusing design and implementation efforts on hybrid intelligent systems enabling upskilling workers. We argue that Hybrid Intelligence may not only lower costs and improve performance, but also prevent management from creating unintended organization-wide deskilling.

Risk mangement in digital business model transformation

The concept of business model design gained significant attention over the last years, as companies like Apple and Uber disrupted whole industries and generated tremendous returns offering not just new products or services but designing new concepts of doing business.

The potential of collective intelligence for decision augmentation

In the era of digital economy, IT is becoming the enabler of novel products, serv might reduce an entrepreneur’s chances to receive reasonable feedback and persuade a reasonable number of stakeholders of the viability of the opportunity to gain access to further valuable resources that support the entrepreneur in enacting the opportunity (Alvarez et al. 2013). Furthermore, the demand-side knowledge of potential customers is frequently not accessible (Nambisan and Zahra 2016). 

Risk management in decision-making on strategic partnerships

By comparing different configurations that result in high and low risk, this research identified nine patterns that describe the role of environmental hazards and app architecture in shaping risk. From these patterns, I derive the role of technological and market uncertainty as core drivers of risk. Furthermore, my findings reveal that behavioural uncertainty and platform specificity are not drivers of risk per se. However, their absence is required to achieve low levels of risk. In addition, I detect the role of app architecture as a control mechanism for third-party innovation. As the absence of app modularity is always implying a high level of risk, it is a necessary condition for minimizing risk.

Expertise Requirements for Hybrid Intellignce in Decision Augmentation

This research introduces a novel filtering approach that combines the strengths of both machines and humans in evaluating creative opportunities by using ML approaches to assign the right user with the required solution knowledge to a corresponding idea. To this end, I propose tentative DPs that I validated in the field with experts on crowdsourcing and system engineering.

Accelerating Decision- Making with Hybrid Intelligence: Design Paradigms and Principles for Decision Augmentation

Designing a Hybrid Intelligence System for Decision Augmentation

Determining business models for start-ups is a highly challenging and uncertain task for entrepreneurs and requires various decisions regarding the design of the business model. Due to limitations of individual human decision-makers, this process is frequently tainted by poor decision-making, leading to substantive consequences and sometimes even failure of the new venture. As most DSS for business model validation rely on simulations or modelling rather than human intuition, there is an obvious gap in literature on such systems.

An AI-Driven Approach to Business Model Architectures

One key conceptualization highlighted by scholars to understand the mechanisms through which entrepreneurs can successfully commercialize new technologies is the business model concept

Hybrid Intelligence

One other approach beyond trying to replicate human level intelligence and related learning mechanisms is to combine human and artificial intelligence. The basic rational behind this is the combination of complementary heterogeneous intelligences (i.e. human and artificial agents) into a socio-technological ensemble that is able to overcome the current limitations of artificial intelligence. This approach is neither focusing on the human in the loop of AI nor automating simple tasks through machine learning but on solving complex problems using the deliberate allocation of tasks among different heterogeneous algorithmic and human agents. Both the human and the artificial agents of such systems can then co-evolve by learning and achieve a superior outcome on the system level. 

Finding the Unicorn

The aim of this research is to develop a method to predict the probability of success of early stage start-ups. Therefore, I follow a DSR approach (Hevner 2007; Gregor and Hevner 2013) to develop a Hybrid Intelligence method that combines the strength of both machine intelligence such as ML techniques to access, process, and structure large amount of information as well as collective intelligence, which uses the intuition and creative potential of individuals while reducing systematic errors through statistical averaging in an ensemble approach (Shmueli and Koppius 2011). I, thus, intend to show that a hybrid approach improves predictions for the success of start-ups under extreme uncertainty compared to machine or human only methods. 

The Future of Human-AI Collaboration

Within this paper I propose a taxonomy for design knowledge for hybrid intelligence systems, which presents descriptive knowledge structured along the four meta-dimensions task characteristics, learning paradigm, human-AI interaction, and AI-human interaction. Moreover, I identified 16 sub-dimensions and a total of 50 categories for the proposed taxonomy. By following a taxonomy development methodology (Nickerson et al. 2013), I extracted interdisciplinary knowledge on human-in-the-loop approaches in ML and the interaction between human and AI. I extended those findings with an examination of seven empirical applications of hybrid intelligence systems. 

The Rise of Intelligent Enterprise Automation

In 1999, as Steven Spielberg was preparing to make the movie “Minority Report”, he assembled a team of 15 technology experts to help him depict the world as it would look in 2054, the year that the movie takes place. The result was an impressive and somewhat dystopic future scape where technology permeates our lives.It is too soon to say whether the vision of the future depicted in the movie will become reality, but 18 years after the film’s release, artificial intelligence (AI) and what is often called intelligent enterprise automation have had a profound impact in some areas.

Business Model Innovation

More than 5 million entrepreneurs have used the Business Model and Value Proposition Canvas both of which are excellent tools to define core functional areas of a startup

Stop thinking in industries!

In today's complex and uncertain world, something like those clearly defined industries no longer exists. That's why companies need to stop thinking in industries and rather move towards thinking about strategic fields (or “arenas” how Rita McGrath the professor of management at the Columbia Business School calls it). And this significantly changes how to think about competition.

Safety is NOT JUST About Human Alignment - The Social Side of AI Safety

Previous advances in research on artificial intelligence (AI) also raised issues related to security. A central goal of advanced autonomous systems is, therefore, to ensure that they are aligned with human values. Similar to our development approach, researchers at Open AI recently designed a hybrid avenue that integrates human preferences, debate and iterated amplification in the process of teaching machines and ensures that AI systems behave reliably on their intended goal. Our team highly appreciates the progress in this area and also their call on the social scientist for AI safety.

Designing Hybrid Intelligence in Your Organisation

HIx- Hybrid Intelligence Xperience Design is how we define our approach to develop intelligent systems that combine human and artificial intelligence

Understand the "WHY?"​ behind your numbers

Existing analytics solutions are failing to support business leaders of the 2020s in providing executives with the real-time insights they need to take the right actions at the right time