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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
September 16, 2017

Awarded Best Paper at HIMSSAP17

Tech Optimization
lt;pgt;Blockchain enables strangers to transact a particular type of electronic cash without knowing anything about each other and without any intermediaries or administrators. It ...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
September 13, 2017

Event Review: Slack Frontiers

Future of Work
Today Slack held their first user conference, Slack Frontiers....
Alan Lepofsky
Analyst Blog
September 8, 2017

Blending security and privacy

Distillation Aftershots
The relationship between privacy regulators and technologists can seem increa...
Steve Wilson