Tag: productivity
-
Enterprise ROI: Banking edition
Maybe no new banking businesses from AI yet: “It is a long, expensive and risk-constrained transformation,” Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo wrote in a note to investors last week. “Indeed, we can’t find one extremely noteworthy new product or service from AI in these very early days (it’s been a little boring from a product…
-
It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and…
-
AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more productive. You have to change your corporate system/culture to adapt to that: However, when finance leaders seek to identify where this return appears in terms of headcount shifts or cycle-time compression, the answers are less clear. These gains remain trapped…
-
When to use AI for writing, and when it’s totally acceptable
If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and…
-
Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”
The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…
-
“Greedy work” refers to jobs in which earnings are convex in hours – meaning that working longer, more continuous, and less flexible hours is rewarded disproportionately rather than proportionally. {Summarized by the robot.} And, from Claudia Goldin: Greedy work can be defined as a job that pays disproportionately more on a per-hour basis when someone…
-
You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.” 🔗 The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most
-
Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they’ve been cutting humans
AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The result is predictable: Tech-led AI strategies deliver productivity improvements, but not transformation. Equally concerning is that technology and AI executives tell…
-
Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation pipelines, can accelerate enterprise code migrations by 50% or more, unblocking projects stalled for years. The robot says: The most dramatic impact occurred in previously stalled migrations, which AI unblocked after years of delay. One migration achieved an 89% estimated time savings,…
-
Enterprise ROI is elusive – maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation”
From “that meeting could have been an email” to “that meeting could have been a ChatGPT session.” Recent Forrester survey summary: AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The…
-
Yes: “about what benefits AI is actually providing today, 66 percent said it’s improving productivity and efficiency.” But: “How that works when only 20 percent report revenue growth is left unanswered.” // And: “Currently, 25 percent of organizations say they’ve shifted 40 percent or more of their AI experiments into live use. That number is…
-
Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
RIP the metaverse – It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. // The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the…
-
🤖 Summary of “Economist Tyler Cowen on the positive side of AI negativity” podcast
The below is a summary of the original transcript from ChatGPT 5.2. Conclusion: Cowen’s core claim is simple and sharp: in the US, most people won’t lose jobs to AI, they’ll lose them to other people who use AI better. The real bottleneck isn’t models or GPUs – it’s institutions, habits, status hierarchies, and people’s…
-
Relative to your interests, Monday
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? AI security concerns and opportunities for 2026 – Tanzu security maestro David Zendzian rattles it off. Amazon gives managers a new way to spot employees who aren’t spending enough time in the office – Enterprise Nanny-state. What does the platform engineer do when the amount of…
-
Employee optimism about work-place productivity
Employees think working from home is fine: Hybrid work has moved from novelty to normality, but employers and employees are no longer aligned on what it should look like. More than half of employees (56%) now work in the office full-time, yet only 15% would choose this pattern, with three-quarters (75%) preferring a more balanced…
-
Related to your interests for Sunday
“Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible for nearly half of all spending.” K-shaped. AI is used a lot for making software. Not sure about the survey demographics and methodology. Deciding on Obama v. McCain in 2008. Keep track of things you’ve done each day so you realize you’re…
-
Full on management-by-magazine phase in effect
Executive mandates are racing ahead of reality. Boards and CEOs often expect payback in 6–12 months, but disconnected strategies, messy data, and immature governance stall progress. While two-thirds of AI decision-makers say their organization uses genAI in production, only 15% report a positive impact on earnings, and just a third can link AI spend to…
-
The ongoing existential quandary of corporate presentations and meetings: “PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive the presentation.” The full thought: it doesn’t exactly help you communicate something (you do that in Word, or Excel); or coordinate something (you do that in Outlook, or nowadays Slack). PowerPoint’s job is simply to help you survive…
-
What you’re putting off now is not going to get any easier or less boring to do in the future. So, try to just do it now and gift yourself future self the lack of that bullshit.
-
Highlights from that OpenAI “The state of enterprise AI report”
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day). That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more…