Many organizations aspire to have cultures that embrace data, analytics and AI, and other new technologies, but few make specific attempts to create such cultures. TD Wealth, the wealth management unit of Toronto-based TD Bank Group, is one organization that isn’t content to think wishfully about this sort of cultural change. It created a program called WealthACT—for “Accelerate Change through Technology”—to try to get senior and middle-level executives in the business unit excited about what technology can do for their business.
Building a Culture That Embraces Data and AI
How TD Wealth did it.
October 28, 2019
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Summary.
Many organizations aspire to have cultures that embrace data, analytics and AI, and other new technologies, but few make specific attempts to create such cultures. TD Wealth, the wealth management unit of Toronto-based TD Bank Group, created a program called WealthACT—for “Accelerate Change through Technology”—to get senior and middle-level executives in the business unit excited about what technology can do for their business. This article describes how the program works and how it has performed.