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Decision IntelligenceCPG Supply Chain Transformation: Decision Intelligence Strategies with Accenture's Kendall NicholasOn this episode of the Decision Intelligence podcast, Technology Leader and Strategist Kendall Nicholas — Principal Director, Strategy & Consulting, Supply Chain & Operations at Accenture — shares why CPGs are turning to decision intelligence to automate complex decision-making and realize fast, tangible value from AI.Related Resources:Faster, Better Decisions in CPG: The Top 5 Decision Intelligence Use Cases (whitepaper)Learn why leading consumer packaged goods companies are adopting AI for decision making — unlocking millions in new revenue and cost savings.IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms 2024 (whitepaper)Get insights on evaluating Decisi...2025-04-2030 minDecision IntelligenceThe Rise of the Autonomous Enterprise: Tom Davenport on AI-Driven Decision MakingOn this episode of the Decision Intelligence podcast, Tom Davenport discusses the drivers, the hurdles, and what’s standing in the way of becoming data-driven, self-driving organizations. He shares how economic value from AI can only be achieved by moving from experiment to production — and how this will enable entirely new and better ways of making complex decisions and improving work.Tom is recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the technology industry and was named one of the top 50 business school professors in the world by Fortune magazine. Ranked among the top 25 consultants in the...2025-04-0633 minDecision IntelligenceRevolutionizing Higher Ed: How Decision Intelligence is Shaping Student Success at WGUWhat if the future of higher education was already here? In this episode of The Future of Decisions Now, host Fred Laluyaux sits down with Dr. Jennie Sanders and Dr. Joe Dery from Western Governors University (WGU) to explore how decision intelligence is transforming the student experience. With a groundbreaking approach that blends human intuition with AI-driven insights, WGU is redefining what it means to provide personalized, competency-based education at scale.From tackling real-time student challenges to optimizing faculty engagement, Jenny and Joe share an inside look...2025-03-1028 minDecision IntelligenceReason-driven decision-making with Brian EvergreenOn this episode of the Future of Decisions Now podcast, Brian Evergreen — technologist, strategist, author, keynote speaker and CEO of The Future Solving Company — discusses his framework for reason-driven™ decision-making, how it aligns with decision intelligence, and the surprising advantages for workforces.Brian shares how augmenting problem-solving with future-solving is fundamental to better decisions, enabling people to evaluate not only decisions executed but those left unmade — and risks not taken. Related Resources:IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence Platforms 2024 (whitepaper)Get insights on evaluating Decision Intelligence Platforms and learn why Aera Technolog...2025-02-2331 minDecision IntelligenceBaxter Healthcare: Elevating Service and Care with Decision IntelligenceOn this episode of the Future of Decisions Now podcast, Baxter Healthcare’s Paul Ives, Director of Integrated Supply Chain, discusses the power of decision intelligence in enabling Baxter’s planners and customer service team to predict and manage critical inventory and logistic needs, and more, while reducing working capital — through smarter, faster decisions.Ives also shares how the technology can empower talent by eliminating manual work and allowing time for creativity and strategy — and at the same time, accelerate results by building an internal knowledge base to inform decision-making for years to come.Related...2025-02-0927 minDecision IntelligenceUnlocking AI’s ROI Potential: Insights from Ray WangOn this episode, Constellation Research’s R “Ray” Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, shares why agentic-powered decision intelligence is the exponential advantage in the marketplace and why it will deliver the real return on AI — revealing the one factor that will define the leaders who will master AI and unlock its value.Wang also discusses the reality of new roles like AI ethicists, decision scientists, and even decision user experience consultants, and shares when autonomous decision-making will dramatically change the way we work and deliver ROI.Related Resources:Beyond Buzzwords: Where Are Comp...2025-01-2629 minDecision IntelligenceJoe Fuller, Harvard Business School: Reshaping the Future of Work with Decision IntelligenceOn this episode of the Future of Decisions Now Podcast, Joe Fuller, Harvard Business School Professor and Co-Leader of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work Project, shares how technologies like AI and decision intelligence are empowering workforces and providing the ultimate competitive advantage for enterprises. From the hard reality of the ever-shrinking workforce, hitting the data complexity ceiling, and why so many transformation projects fall flat, Joe Fuller gives a wake-up call to enterprises to start mobilizing AI and DI to prepare for the future. Related ContentIDC MarketScape: Worldwide Decision Intelligence Plat...2025-01-0543 minDecision IntelligencePhilip Morris International: Scaling Decision Intelligence to Improve Supply Chain Agility and EfficiencyIn this episode of the Future of Decisions Now podcast, Gualtiero Cerrato of PMI discusses how decision intelligence is fundamental to PMI’s global supply chain. By leveraging this technology, PMI is driving agility and precision—analyzing insights, exploring alternative scenarios, and making fast, accurate decisions in real time to unlock value across its operations.With 70% adoption already, Gualtiero discusses PMI’s outcomes from decision intelligence and how the company is scaling the technology to enable connected decision-making throughout its value chain.Global leader PMI is working to create a smoke-free future — and the only company...2024-12-1533 min
Decision IntelligenceUnilever: How Decision Intelligence is Revolutionizing Demand Sensing for the CPG MarketUnilever, one of the world’s most admired and innovative fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies has continued to unleash its people's potential and take customer satisfaction to a new level using AI-powered decision intelligence. In this episode of the Future of Decisions Now Podcast, Unilever’s Juan Carlos Parada, Executive Vice President of Global Customer Operations, reveals how decision intelligence is enabling market-changing innovation for the CPG industry. Unilever’s Sky project, an intelligent demand fulfillment system, is generating an astonishing 8 million forecast combinations by SKU by store per day — bringing massive impact to its end-to-end connected value cha...2024-12-0332 min
DisambiguationThe Use of AI in Decision Intelligence🎙️ Welcome to this best of episode of the Disambiguation Podcast, “The Use of AI in Decision Intelligence”.🌟 Our special guest Fred Laluyaux, President and CEO at Aera Technology. 🔍 In this episode, we discuss:-Some of the biggest challenges businesses face today that decision intelligence aims to solve.-How Aera uses AI to enhance decision-making processes. -The path to automating decisions and what it takes for a company to “trust” the system’s decisions and actions.-How companies can address the data challenges.-The role of simulations and synthetic organizations in the future of decision intelligence technology. -How companies can address the ethical...2024-06-2844 min
Tech TransformationMars’ Guillaume Doriry On Increasing Supply Chain Visibility With Decision IntelligenceAs more consumer goods companies bring artificial intelligence into their operations, keeping their employees at the center is critical to success. For Mars, this has meant creating strategies that empower their associates in order to drive adoption and ensure they feel connected to all of the changes. In this episode of Tech Transformation, sponsored by Aera Technology, we’re talking with Guillaume Doriry, digital transformation senior director, global supply chain and ERP at Mars, and Fred Laluyaux, CEO, Aera Technology, about how Mars is using decision intelligence to gain more visibility into their supply chain.
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Patrick Daly Interlinks PodcastDecision Intelligence in the Supply ChainIn this episode of Interlinks we talk to Fred Laluyaux President and CEO of Aera Technology.Aera is a Silicon-Valley-based Decision Intelligence company and a leader in this exciting new area.The company’s Aera Decision Cloud™ integrates with existing systems and data sources to help business with technology-enhanced decision making in real time, and at scale, so that they can achieve sustainability, effectiveness, and efficiency in the context of the high-degree of complexity of their supply chains.In this conversation, Fred and I explore some of the more recent developments and capabilities emer...2023-09-0428 min
The Zero100 PodcastNew Tech Brings New Strategies: How Planning and Execution Are More ConnectedIn today's episode, we're talking about supply chain planning and execution, and how they are driving new levels of agility and resilience, with three unique perspectives. First, Zero100 Research VP Steve Hochman shares our new Regenerative Business Planning strategic framework. Next, Juan Carlos Parada, Global Head of Customer Operations discusses Unilever’s transformation with a new tech stack that's evolving how they plan and execute across their global supply chain. And finally, we'll speak with Aera Technology CEO, Fred Laluyaux about how AI-powered decision intelligence connects the dots between insights and execution. The episode is hosted by Catherine Parry, He...2023-07-2637 minTech TransformationUnilever’s Juan Carlos Parada On Driving Value With Decision IntelligenceAs Unilever digitizes its value chain and transforms its organization to put the customer first, it's finding that decision intelligence is playing a key role in helping it gain speed and agility. In this episode of Tech Transformation, sponsored by Aera Technology, we’re talking with Juan Carlos Parada, global head of customer operations at Unilever, and Fred Laluyaux, CEO of Aera, about their journey with this technology and where they’re taking it next.
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•The challenges decision intelligence can solve
•Where it fits into Unilever’s complex and innovative supply chain
•How U...2023-07-1916 minTech TransformationAera Technology’s Fred Laluyaux On Decision IntelligenceDecision Intelligence is growing in adoption, and it’s poised to have a significant impact across the retail and consumer goods industries. In this episode of Tech Transformation, sponsored by Aera Technology, we’re talking with Fred Laluyaux, Aera CEO, about the technology and how it’s reinventing the way CPGs get work done — and ultimately, the business of CPGs.
According to Laluyaux, more global brands are turning to Decision Intelligence to improve efficiency, service, sustainability, and more.
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•How do you define Decision Intelligence?
•Why is it needed, and how does...2023-05-1714 min
Let's Talk Supply ChainHow Decision Intelligence is Transforming Supply Chains, with Aera TechnologyToday I’m joined by Aera Technology, a forward-thinking company that is on a mission to drive beyond digital transformation and make businesses smarter, dynamic, digital, and wildly successful. Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence Company that makes business agility happen. Their innovative cloud platform integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decision-making in real-time. In the era of digital acceleration, Aera helps enterprises around the world transform how they respond to the ever-changing environment. Today Fred Laluyaux, CEO at Aera Technology, joins me to chat all about the company: what they do...2023-01-1651 min
The Supply Chain Matters PodcastEpisode 21- Decision Intelligence, the Next Frontier in Supply Chain Digital Transformation with Fred LaluyauxFred Laluyaux discusses how decision intelligence anchored in artificial intelligence will anchor a rething of supply chain decision making.2023-01-0335 min
Inbound Logistics PodcastDecision Intelligence: How is Decision Intelligence Transforming Logistics? Guest: Fred Laluyaux, Aera TechnologyDecision making in the supply chain has to attain an agility that meets, and almost predicts, the new, aggressive consumer demand signals born from Covid. However, to effectively leverage the massive amount of data required to get there, companies should consider technology that processes that raw, digital information into workable decision intelligence. Fred Laluyaux of Aera Technology joins us with his insights on how decision intelligence is transforming logistics.
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Inbound Logistics Podcast: Supply Chain ReactionsDecision Intelligence: How is Decision Intelligence Transforming Logistics? Guest: Fred Laluyaux, Aera TechnologyDecision making in the supply chain has to attain an agility that meets, and almost predicts, the new, aggressive consumer demand signals born from Covid. However, to effectively leverage the massive amount of data required to get there, companies should consider technology that processes that raw, digital information into workable decision intelligence. Fred Laluyaux of Aera Technology joins us with his insights on how decision intelligence is transforming logistics. FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://www.aeratechnology.com/ DO YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THIS EPISODE? Call our Dialog Line: 888-878-3247 DOWNLOAD...2022-10-2632 min
Patrick Daly Interlinks PodcastDecision Intelligence in the Supply ChainIn this episode of Interlinks I talk to Fred Laluyaux, CEO of Aera Technology, headquartered in Mountain View, California in the heart of Silicon Valley working to transform the future of work through the practical application of Decision Intelligence. Founded in 2017, Aera has a global team that serves customers throughout the world, including the UK and Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America. Aera works with many of the largest worldwide brands in consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, and more. Fred is a thought leader on the future of work...2022-09-0629 min
HBS Managing the Future of WorkHow AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving modeAera Technology CEO, Fred Laluyaux, explains how advances in computing power coupled with vast stores of data are ushering in a new mode of enterprise business operations, with computers handling more routine analysis and decision-making. This, in turn, is accelerating the automation of previously “safe” knowledge work. Laluyaux discusses the benefits and the organizational changes and challenges.2019-12-1129 min
HBS Managing the Future of WorkHow AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving modeFor decades, enterprise systems vendors have promised legacy businesses virtual omniscience—decision-making informed by real-time, comprehensive views of their organizations’ activities and relevant external factors. This holy grail has eluded large established organizations, with their complex agglomerations of systems. Silicon Valley software developer Aera Technology touts an AI-assisted upgrade, tapping disparate systems and data flows to provide comprehensible and timely recommendations and automated decision-making. President and CEO, Fred Laluyaux, explains how advances in computing power coupled with vast stores of data are ushering in a new mode of operations, with computers handling more routine analysis and decision-making. This, in turn...2019-12-1130 min
The Remarkable SaaS PodcastProduct Innovation: The promise of cognitive technology to enable the Self-Driving EnterpriseThis podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the enterprise business software that has the power to turn average companies into disrupters in their category. My guest is Frederic Laluyaux, President and CEO of Aera Technology.
He’s got more than 20 years of experience as a leader in the Enterprise Performance Management sector. Fred has built his career focusing on providing solutions that help organizations worldwide achieve financial and business excellence. Fred started his career in the area of CPM, otherwise known as Corporate Performance Management, leading ALG‘s global operations until it was acquired by Business Objects.
When Business Objec...2019-05-1338 min