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June 16, 2026

Hot Take: Salesforce Acquires Fin and Leaves Us Reading Between the Agentic Lines

Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire agentic unicorn, Fin. The pickup will bring a customer service focused frontier model into the AI Research fold while delivering an end-to-end customer agent focused on the full customer journey, regardless of functional ownership or individual mandate. ...
Liz Miller
Analyst Blog
June 15, 2026

The CEO’s AI Dashboard, Part 3: Data Readiness

Board Strategy
I want to move from business value to the condition that usually determines whether that value appears at all: data readiness. Enterprises still talk about data readiness as though it were a cleanup project. It is closer to an operating discipline. Good data helps. Clean data helps. The right data, in the right place, ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
June 09, 2026

Meet the 150 Visionaries Shaping the AI-Powered Future

Data to Decisions
We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026–2027 Artificial Intelligence 150 (AI150), a distinguished group of executive leaders who are setting the pace for enterprise AI transformation....
Analyst Blog
June 07, 2026

CEO's AI Dashboard Series: Business Value (#2)

I want to start the series with the most abused term in the AI discussion: value. Many enterprises still talk about AI value as though it comes from replacing people or automating ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
June 03, 2026

The CEO’s AI Dashboard (a series begins)

Board Strategy
In this issue, I want to introduce the framework I will use over the next two months to discuss how CEOs can plan, manage, and adjust AI strategy. AI strategy is now sitting at the...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
May 18, 2026

Monday's Musings: Future of ERP In An AI Age

Board Strategy
Modernization of ERP Moves Beyond Just Agents While all the buzz in AI is focused on agentic ERP, one can’t just slap on an agent to the core system and expect it to smoothly de...
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
May 10, 2026

Distinguishing AI from Magic

I want to address what we know today about AI (GenAI, more specifically) since the launch of the first commercial GPT nearly 40 months ago. How can we leverage the full strategic ...
Esteban Kolsky