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September 20, 2026

Workforce and Organization: Experienced Judgment Is the Constraint

Board Strategy
In 2017, Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer architecture that became foundational to today's generative AI. One of its breakthroughs allowed AI to pay attention to many parts of the information at once rather than processing them one after another. Nine years later, machine attention can operate at a ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
September 17, 2026

Business Value and the Limits of ROI

Board Strategy
This is the first in a series looking at a new structure for planning and investing in enterprise technology over the next few years. The introduction can be found here. AI has made an old enterprise technology problem more visible: we continue to measure long-term transformation with tools optimized for shorter-t...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
December 27, 2023

Trends: Tech IPOs Will Come Back In 2024

Data to Decisions
lt;pgt;Two Year IPO Drought Coming To An Endlt;/pgt; lt;pgt;In 2023, only 148 companies completed an initial public offering (IPO). This was the worst year on record and followe...
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
December 6, 2023

Recognising digital government excellence

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
lt;pgt;It's not every day that we recognise a large government agency for its digital transformation, vision, innovation, agility and privacy protection. lt;/pgt; ...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
November 27, 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023: Perspectives for the CIO | Live Blog

New C-Suite
lt;pgt;I'm excited to be live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas. This year's event is packed with announcements about the leading-edge of cloud computing and the hot topic of th...
Dion Hinchcliffe