Frank is always pressed for time. He has spent almost a decade as the head of a retail store for a large chain. Over the last few years, he has been steadily handed over the reins of four other stores in the chain. His knowledge and expertise are beyond doubt. The problem is that while work has multiplied several folds and his responsibilities have grown, he still has only 24 hours in a workday. Frank, our superhero cast in the image of scores of successful store managers, needs help. He needs a solution that lets him work faster, more efficiently, with greater confidence, and just as independently as he now does. We think Frank could do with a personal voice-based assistant that smoothly takes over routine secretarial tasks, responds to queries that need analysis of data prised out of large enterprise systems with the air of a seasoned information analyst and hunts down material on the Internet with the practiced eye of a sleuth.
