Tag: ellusiveroi
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Roundup for Friday
How Broadcom TrueSource handled the PHP freakout, an analog speedometer on an old police car, flipping the AI-voice bozo-bit, Agent Skills moving to the Linux Foundation, revealing interview questions, Gartner on the 13% of CIOs seeing real AI value, Photocraft versus Photoshop, and 1Password for agents.
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Unrealized potential in normie AI use
What is the diffusion gap? It’s the delta between what you can accomplish with models (ie how powerful they are) and how the average person uses models. 🔗 Unrealized potential in normie AI use Related, from the ponders at Anthropic:
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One fix for elusive enterprise ROI: don’t measure it
“I am just very reluctant to spend a lot of energy quantifying it because it winds up wasting a lot of people’s time inside the institution when we actually need to get them to focus on doing things… as much as important and dramatic and exciting as this theme is, it takes a long time…
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Fewer than 25% of enterprises have scaled AI successfully
fewer than one-quarter of enterprises have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units, according to Gartner data released Tuesday. The IT advisory firm surveyed more than 1,300 leaders from organizations with more than $50 million in revenue between January and April of this year. 🔗 Fewer than 25% of enterprises have scaled AI successfully
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CIOs are still waiting for AI’s cost savings
An Infosys survey of more than 1,000 senior business executives found 72% have successfully scaled less than a quarter of their AI pilots and two-thirds struggle to measure the ROI their executives claim. Nearly three-quarters said the rush to prove short-term ROI is inhibiting more transformative long-term work, and only about half have a balanced…
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🤖 The AI Subsidy Window Is Closing: Oracle, SAP, and Workday Move to Metered Token Pricing
Enterprise software vendors subsidized GPU, inference, and token costs to drive AI adoption, creating false budget security while companies burned through annual AI budgets in months. Oracle, SAP, and Workday are now moving to metered pricing, which turns AI spending into an organizational design decision: model elasticity across the three uncontrollable pricing variables, retain core…
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AI makes people more productive, not organizations – Elusive Enterprise AI ROI
For enterprises to get the most out of their AI investments, they should think about going deep with their AI deployments, not wide, Ashraf said. Instead of applying AI across every process in an organization, find the few instances where automating workflows with an agentic system could make the most impact. And: While 78% of…
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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AI won’t fix your broken culture
Expecting AI to improve dysfunctional parts of your business probably won’t go well: The strongest candidates are workflows that repeat at meaningful scale, have clear ownership, and can be measured for quality, risk, and business value. 🔗 How to manage AI investments in the agentic era