Re:DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid t...
by phkahler on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:01AM
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Can't we assume they already have a data science team? Optimizing the grid is their job already right?
From what I've seen in several places though is companies tend not to listen to their own people, but are willing to make changes based on the advice of hired "experts". So the experts will come in and ask everyone what the challenges are and what they might do to improve. Then the "experts" will pick several low hanging fruit and find a few things that cross internal boundaries (the harder things to change) and make recommendations. Upper management will go with it and improvements will be made. I suppose the way to sum it up is that they bring objectivity to the table.
From what I've seen in several places though is companies tend not to listen to their own people, but are willing to make changes based on the advice of hired "experts". So the experts will come in and ask everyone what the challenges are and what they might do to improve. Then the "experts" will pick several low hanging fruit and find a few things that cross internal boundaries (the harder things to change) and make recommendations. Upper management will go with it and improvements will be made. I suppose the way to sum it up is that they bring objectivity to the table.