Why is AI adoption different from past digital transformations in design?

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AI adoption in design differs from past digital transformations like CAD/BIM. AI is already familiar and doesn't require expertise, making guardrails and governance essential. Successful AI strategies need broad stakeholder engagement, including non-experts, to discover valuable uses. Though potential is high, the actual business impact of AI is not yet widely measured. Businesses must define measurable outcomes and strategies for managing change to realize value.

Three ideas for developing digital strategies to support smart, healthy, and fit businesses.

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Developing successful digital strategies requires focusing on organizational smarts, health, and fitness. Many initiatives fail despite technological investments because they lack broad accountability and fail to measure success by business outcomes. Real transformation needs stakeholder participation beyond experts, ensuring alignment between tactics and how business success is measured.

Weekly Workflow: Conditional Formatting in Power BI

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Power BI visuals help to communicate important information in data, translating tables of individual numbers into interconnected and meaningful graphics. Conditional Formatting offers users the ability to apply colors to elements that are related to key values to aid in communication. Users can experiment with applying a range of different colors to their visuals by applying a Gradient, Rule, or Field Value format to numerical data.

Weekly Workflow: Converting Units in Power BI

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Data in Power BI can be thought of as "Read Only", meaning that it is not possible to make changes to the values in your data once it is imported. This can cause some confusion regarding unit conversion and other simple calculations among new users, but Power BI provides an easy to use solution: Custom Columns.