Tag: business
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Apple’s inflation adjusted revenue
Applying inflation to Apples’s revenue makes it more flat. // The same would apply to other companies. 🔗 The problem with dollars
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Shocker! Reversal in AI ROI slide-wisdom: AI does works well
There’s a new study out that means it’s time to update all those slides that say AI projects are failing: [A] new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School complicates the narrative. The study found that 74% of businesses that measure the ROI from their generative AI efforts are already seeing a positive return,…
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Make it easy for other people to pitch for you
With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned. 🔗 Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you
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Working as designed
‘allowing for controversial yet eye-catching content like AI celebrities, OpenAI is borrowing from a playbook perfected by social media companies such as Meta: Do whatever it takes to get users on the app and ask forgiveness later, said Thales Teixeira, a business professor at the University of California at San Diego. “First you grow, and…
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Actually changing is what matters most
If you make huge changes to how your under performing business works, there’s a good chance you’ll improve things. That applies whether you introduce a new tool – like AI – or not. Just changing how you run meetings for example is a big enough change that could have massive effects. You could say the…
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Buy things that have low competetive advantage
This is good framing and wording: “Reexamine your ecosystem and identify where ‘buy’ delivers scale and where selective ‘build’ unlocks advantage.” 🔗 Build Vs. Buy: Regaining Control To Deliver Digital Workplace Value
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hallway conversations vs. AI
Your business processes are tribal knowledge passed down through email chains and hallway conversations. Before an AI can handle expense reports or customer inquiries autonomously, you need to document, standardize, and make machine-readable every workflow. That’s a multi-year project. 🔗 Your employees are already AI-augmented. Your enterprise isn’t. Here’s why that matters
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Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it
Enterprise AI not legible. If you can’t measure it, you can’t ROI it: “It’s easy for an employee to say, ‘Yes, this will help me,’ but hard to quantify how. And if they can’t quantify how it’ll help them … it’s not going to be a long discussion” over whether the software is worth paying…
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Supporting the executive
This is also what it’s like to work in corporate strategy and supporting the executive suite. It feels like a lot of time wasted when someone could have been coming up with fixes instead of silo-hopping. That said: the point of a system is what it does. So, coordinating with the giant organization is often…
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🤖 Michael Dell Joins Trump-Backed Consortium to Acquire TikTok US
President Donald Trump confirmed that Michael Dell is part of the team aiming to buy TikTok’s US operations, alongside Oracle’s Larry Ellison and possibly Lachlan Murdoch. The deal would make TikTok majority US-owned, with its algorithm and operations hosted on American infrastructure. Summary created by ChatGPT Source summarized: Trump says Michael Dell is part of…
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When you meet a new person in your field, one easy small talk question to ask them is: “if you were [insert your company name here], what would you do?” It gets you some free consulting, lets someone talk about themselves and things they know, and, you know, just gives you something to talk about…
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“PRACTICAL ESTHETIC SERVICES ADAPTABLE TO CLIENT SITUATION.” Art card
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“Executize this” -> “write this for someone who doesn’t care about the topic but needs to deal with it for their job.”
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The Business of ChatGPT – Revenue and such numbers circa. August, 2025.
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The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence – A good take on metrics and frameworks to show the “business value” or tech projects.
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How to increase your surface area for luck – “One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff – socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might…
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Moral Deskilling: why you spend more time on admin than your actual job – I think what this is saying is: when you build a system of work where the people doing the actual work (“workers”) do not have quality control over their work, you mistrust them. Therefore you need more managers to oversee them.…
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The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care – “Another way to put this is that to retain workers, wages in stagnant-productivity sectors must rise to match those in (equally labor-skilled) high-productivity sectors. That means paying more for the same level of care, simply to keep the labor force from leaving”
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Incremental AI is better than civilization changing AI
Incremental AI For every AI skeptic and alarmist, there are ten AI dreamers convinced AI will change civilization. In the business world, this fuels high valuations and premature optimization through layoffs or sweeping business changes. Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, listed out all sorts of AI things Amazon is doing. To me, the list suggests AI…
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We waited 20 years for this! Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on an Informatica long game as growth re-emerges as a corporate priority –