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October 12, 2026

Trust, Identity & Control: Every Action Earns Authority

Board Strategy
Enterprise access was designed around a relatively static bargain. Establish an identity, decide what that identity may access, grant the permissions, and assume they remain appropriate until something triggers a review. Authentication has improved, and permissions have become more granular, but the underlying model st...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
October 8, 2026

Microsoft Brings More Agentic Intelligence into the Flow of Work for CRM Users

Instead of forcing professionals to log into a separate platform to do business, Microsoft is embedding CRM directly into everyday work tools, turning AI assistance into autonomous execution, modularizing domain knowledge into reusable skills, and opening up clear migration pathways to an agentic future....
Martin Schneider
Analyst Blog
April 22, 2026

CRM Is Not Dead (and Other Enterprise POVs from CRTV Episode 128)

Future of Work
In ConstellationTV episode 128, co-hosts Liz Miller and Holger Mueller tackle the biggest myths in enterprise tech, from the state of CRM to Wall Street's AI obsession. Here are th...
Liz Miller
Holger Mueller
Hannah Mason
Analyst Blog
April 16, 2026

AEO, GEO, and What Happens as AEM Enters the Chat

Marketing Transformation
The world of technology loves a good hero story. Right now, as we traverse this Age of AI, LLMs have emerged as the hero, skyrocketing in use and popularity while changing how bran...
Liz Miller
Analyst Blog
April 10, 2026

Defining What It Means to Have AI Skills (Part 1)

Today, we are going to begin to cover the issue of talent acquisition for AI needs. There is no checklist of skills or talents to use when hiring, nor are there effective tests to ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
April 10, 2026

Revaluing the Human Linchpin in Enterprise Operations

Board Strategy
In this issue, we examine a structural shift in enterprise software emerging across pricing, process design, and workforce assumptions. The focus is not on AI as a generic disrupti...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
April 3, 2026

Extracting value from AI? Surely you are joking

In this issue, we explore why AI delivers value unevenly across the enterprise, what is actually working today, and how organizations should approach extracting value over the long...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
March 16, 2026

Event Report: Nvidia GTC Kicks Off - All Eyes on AI Future

Board Strategy
The quot;Super Bowlquot; of AI Begins Today Over 30,0000 in person attendees convened into San Jose, CA along with an estimated 300,000 online to hear Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang ...
R "Ray" Wang