Every organization runs on a map - the accumulated set of assumptions your company navigates by: what things cost, where the margins are, which competitors matter, what customers will pay…
Early in the AI revolution, there were many reasons to wait. For the better part of three years, the smartest thing a mid-market CEO could do about artificial intelligence was…
by Ira Shapiro, CIO Consultant Quarter one is already behind you and Q2 is moving fast. Take a second and ask yourself, “Does my technology roadmap look like the…
Most mid-market CEOs we talk to are still asking the wrong question about AI. They're asking how it will change their cost structure or which functions to automate first. The…
The phone on your nightstand is the prosthetic. The text box on your screen is the interface. The conversation you had this morning with an AI that drafted, critiqued, and…
For two decades, "stronger together" was corporate wallpaper. It announced mergers nobody asked for. It headlined campaign buttons and pep-rally decks. It got slapped on the lobby wall above a…
Every technology project your company greenlights carries a number: an expected return on investment. The business case gets built, the spreadsheet gets blessed, and if the ratio looks right, the…
We're proud to present a foundational post from our CEO's "Innovation is a Process" series... Divergent Ideation, Convergent Prioritization Most organizations treat innovation like lightning. They wait for it…
and What the Mid-market Should be Considering in its Place There is a ritual that plays out in conference rooms across middle-market America several thousand times a year. A…
In March 2023, Bloomberg spent $10 million building BloombergGPT, a custom large language model trained on decades of proprietary financial data. The team published a paper, the press covered it…
