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From Pilots to Progress: Mapping the Real Journey to Enterprise AI Success | by Cory Smith | Recipes for Change | Jul, 2025 | Medium
They’re launching proofs of concept without governance, buying models without understanding the data that feeds them, and betting big on transformation without a roadmap that accounts for human… Why Organizations Must Measure and Mature Their AI Capabilities — Now. In...
Why Millions Of Managers Are Becoming Obsolete—It’s Not Rocket Science—Or AI
It’s Not Rocket Science That Is Making Millions Of Managers Obsolete. Or Even AI. Traditional Managers Have Simply Got The Wrong Goal Today, millions of managers face similar risks of obsolescence as almost everything that they have been doing for the last hundred...
🔮 You’ve been prompting wrong this whole time
Many of us feel fluent in prompting AI by now, but still feel frustrated when the results fall short. The issue usually isn’t the model. It’s how we talk to it. Too often, we fall into what developer Mitchell Hashimoto calls “blind prompting”, treating the AI like a...
Enterprise AI Implementation in Heavy Industry: A Digital Transformation Strategy for Sustainable Growth | J.S. Held – JDSupra
Enabling Responsible AI Adoption in Heavy Industry - Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping heavy industries—including energy,... Go to Source
Superintelligence: The Next Great Power Struggle | On Digital Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
When a novel AI system can rapidly design useful new antibiotics like Halicin or engineer advanced chip layouts in hours that rival the best work of humans, we’re witnessing civilization-scale innovation as a real form of economic power. Hundreds of billions (and soon...
Think of AI Agents as Digital Employees. Oversight Never Ends
AI agents aren't just automation — they need clear task specs, evaluation criteria and human oversight to ensure ethical goal achievement. Go to Source
The Great Unbundling: How AI Agents Are Silently Dismantling Your Business Software
We're not talking about another app or a slightly better dashboard. We're talking about a fundamental shift from the static, rule-based systems we've grown accustomed to, towards dynamic, autonomous agents that can manage entire business functions. Microsoft CEO Satya...
Academics are kidding themselves about AI – by Harry Law
As soon as I see someone call a large language model a ‘bullshit generator’, I know to take whatever follows with a grain of salt. Go to Source
How to stay ahead of the AI wave at work – Fast Company
Last month, my friend Amy, a mid-level marketing manager at a Fortune 500 company, had her entire junior analyst team “restructured.” Why officially? “Strategic realignment.” Reality? AI tools now handle what used to be three full-time positions. Go to...
The rise of good enough LLMs | Constellation Research Inc.
Large language models (LLMs) have reached the phase where advances are incremental as they quickly become commodities. Simply put, it's the age of good enough LLMs where the innovation will come from orchestrating them and customizing them for use cases. Go to...
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