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Analyst Blog
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
November 17, 2023

Microsoft Ignite 2023: Three big AI takeaways

Data to Decisions
lt;pgt;At Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference the company fleshed out its generative AI offerings and strategy and, in some places, put some serious distance between it and the comp...
Andy Thurai
Analyst Blog
November 5, 2023

Ignorance of AI is no excuse

New C-Suite
lt;pgt;Is AI going to collide with privacy law? Technology neutral privacy law doesnt care how personal data comes to be held by a computer or a business. Those running network mac...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
October 3, 2023

Research Summary: The Urgent Case For A Chief AI Officer (CAIO)

New C-Suite
lt;pgt;lt;span style=quot;font-size:11ptquot;gt;lt;span style=quot;font-family:quot;Verdanaquot;,sans-serifquot;gt;\With artificial intelligence (AI) projects all the rage, organiz...
R "Ray" Wang
Andy Thurai