How Augmented AI Turns AI Strategy Into Business Results with Amar Lingam

How Augmented AI Turns AI Strategy Into Business Results with Amar Lingam

Guest: Amar Lingam, Founder, Augmented AI, Former Chief Analytics and AI Officer, CDW; Former Chief Data Officer, CA Technologies
Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club®

In this episode, Amar Lingam of Augmented AI discusses how organizations can move from AI ideas and technology investments to measurable business results. Amar explains that successful AI initiatives should begin with the business problem, not the technology.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience leading major data, analytics, AI, and digital transformation initiatives, he shares why companies need to align executive, business, and technology stakeholders around shared priorities.

He also discusses a utility company that needed better visibility into field operations and maintenance. After developing a strategy, conducting a stakeholder workshop, prioritizing use cases, and creating an implementation roadmap, the company achieved operational efficiency improvements of more than 50% in some areas, reduced scheduling inefficiencies by approximately 20% to 25%, and generated millions of dollars in strategic value.

The conversation also covers AssetIQ, an Augmented AI solution that helps organizations analyze, organize, search, and generate insights from large collections of digital assets. Amar shares examples of how AssetIQ can help companies identify high-performing marketing content, improve targeted campaigns, and support healthcare professionals by analyzing medical images and comparing them with established benchmarks. He also emphasizes that AI should augment human expertise, while business leaders, radiologists, and physicians remain responsible for final decisions.

Topics Covered:
✳️ Aligning AI strategy with enterprise goals
✳️ Moving from strategy and roadmap development to implementation
✳️ Improving utility operations and preventive maintenance with AI
✳️ Turning digital asset archives into usable intelligence
✳️ Identifying high-performing marketing content
✳️ Supporting healthcare analysis with AI
✳️ The importance of keeping humans in the loop

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