Superintelligence and Superheroes
What do Babylonian law, Greek philosophy, and a ten cent comic book have in common? On the September executive order that renames a technology without requiring anything of anyone.
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Enterprise AI, technical debt, and separating demonstrated business value from hype.
AI is not a"Get out of jail free card": AI ML applications' success require quality data
This is the final of five blog entries on increasing technical debt in the Salesforce and SaaS application ecosystem (link to the entire article). Technical debt is rarely mentioned within the bright, shiny promises of AI/ML and particularly generative AI. Early adopters of generative AI...
Read article →The compounding impact of economic cost-cutting pressures and increased technical debt: Installment 4 (of 5)
In installment 3, we noted that the incidence of proactive governance programs and technical debt accrual are inversely proportional.When the economy hits a bump in the road and corporate financial performance suffers, executive leadership judiciously looks for areas to cut costs and find new...
Read article →Installment 3 (of 5): "Limited governance and attention on tech debt management"
In our second installment, we covered Salesforce’s Maturing and expanding cloud footprint in the enterprise and its implications for technical debt. Sidebar: "Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.", Charlie Munger, former Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.An enterprise's...
Read article →Installment 2 (of 5): Salesforce’s Maturing and expanding cloud footprint in the enterprise
In our first installment, we covered "The power of the Salesforce platform" and the lack of governance contributing to technical debt. In this second installment, we will cover the topic of Salesforce’s Maturing and expanding cloud footprint in the enterprise, and it's contribution to accruing...
Read article →The growing risk and cost of accruing technical debt for Salesforce customers and other SaaS enterprise apps
The growing risk and cost of accruing technical debt for Salesforce customers and other SaaS enterprise appsThis is the first blog article installment in a mini-series of five causes on the topic of Salesforce governance, digital operating model design and operation. Please do chime in with your...
Read article →Navigating through the enterprise AI hype for business value returns
Every executive I have spoken with during the past year is scrambling to place their AI bets, to figure out how to navigate the hype from what is real today and what will the future bring. Recent popular press musings abound on the topic of OpenAI and whether one is an AI "Doomer" or...
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