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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
January 16, 2018

Smartsheet Acquires Converse.ai

One of the main battlegrounds in collaboration this year is going to be aroun...
Alan Lepofsky
Analyst Blog
January 9, 2018

Embrace the Era of Smart Analytics

Data to Decisions
Machine learning and artificial intelligence advances in five areas will e...
Doug Henschen
Analyst Blog
December 27, 2017

How ready are you for "blockchain"?

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
lt;pgt;What's your involvement in blockchain-related technologies? We'd like to know! lt;/pgt; ...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
December 17, 2017

Yet another broken anonymity promise

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
lt;pgt;At the risk of sounding sacreligious, is Open Data really delivering effective evidence-based policy? And is it worth the privacy risk, now that de-identification is proving...
Steve Wilson