The State Of Business Buying: Companies Still Struggle To Meet Buyer Expectations - “Buyers are increasingly dissatisfied. Eighty-seven percent of buyers express dissatisfaction with the provider they choose at the end of a “successful” purchasing process. Price is the reason cited most often — but there are others that are perhaps more instructive. Buyers are not satisfied with the technology, domain, and industry expertise that providers demonstrate, nor their ease and flexibility during the process. The disconnect is worse with Gen Z and Millennial buyers, who express dissatisfaction 91% of the time."
Tech Brats Turning 30 - “It’s easy to find yourself wondering about the conditions that made that meeting of minds possible and about all the things you could accomplish in your own life if every distraction were removed and you could sit at a desk undisturbed for long enough. Then I realize that what I am imagining is having a wife or mother that swaddles you like a baby."
How Toyota is revolutionizing manufacturing with AI | Google Cloud Blog - All your hybrid/multi-cloud stuff like bursting and on-premises access, mixed in with AI uses, including training models. Some notes on introducing agile practices and CI/CD for the AI apps and uses. A Google Cloud customer, too.
AI in organizations: Some tactics - Many great, practical ideas about how to use AI daily. And none of that shitty clickbait crap.
Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas - “Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas” - I am not overstating it when I say this is the easiest/cheapest tech marketing problem to fix that is the least done.
Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 Las Vegas: Day 1 Highlights - Finally, survey says it’s working: “Within I&O, 70% of GenAI investments so far have exceeded or greatly exceeded leadership expectations for productivity."
Legacy Shmegacy - A bad mindset pushes you into the legacy trap and keeps you there. Here’s how change that mindset and what to change it to.
The buyer of the $6.2 million banana art piece eats it - “To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one."
The Tarot of Pips - Mystic d6.
Words Matter - “but the point is really that public services should be effective, not disruptive."