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Insights News
October 29, 2026

Outcome based pricing: Pros, cons and nuances

Revenue & Growth Effectiveness
Outcome-based pricing sounds good, but it is hard to put into a contract. However, there's enterprise buying interest in sharing risk with vendors and the likely end state is a hyb...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Microsoft delivers strong Q3, Azure growth up 48%

Data to Decisions
Microsoft reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings as Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion, up 30% from a year ago....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Teamwork in the AI age: Pods, clusters, flocks

Future of Work
Team structures need to adapt as AI agents and humans increasingly work together in smaller structures, or pods. A pod is a hybrid team of humans and AI that will also include peop...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

An early read on your 2027 AI budget

Board Strategy
Enterprise AI budgets are likely to tighten and be scrutinized amid concerns about returns and value. In addition, cybersecurity has taken back some of the AI budget even if it's s...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 28, 2026

Zoho revamps Zoho Analytics, could extend its reach

Data to Decisions
Zoho revamped Zoho Analytics with business context, including ontology and semantics, AI agents that specialize in analytics, governance and a unified platform that operate headles...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 27, 2026

2027 themes to watch and what you should do now

Data to Decisions
For 2027, the AI playbook is going to include a lot of volatility, build your own approaches, agentic AI at scale, governance headaches and a focus on humans on multiple fronts. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 27, 2026

Boomi CEO Lucas: Beware your zombie AI agents

Data to Decisions
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas said there are plenty of real returns from AI agents, but companies will need to get serious about costs and the quot;zombie agents running in your organizati...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 26, 2026

Verizon vs. Starlink: It's about AI's edge, last mile

Tech Optimization
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman weighed in on the potential competition from SpaceX's Starlink and said the assumption is satellite mobile service will become a reality, but it'll take ab...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 23, 2026

How Google Public Sector’s RISE unit works: Show don’t tell

Innovation & Product-led Growth
Google Public Sector's Rapid Innovation Specialist Engineering (RISE) group is a bit of a vibe coding jazz band that aims to show customers what they can do via prototypes and the...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 18, 2026

What we can learn from industrial, blue collar AI

Data to Decisions
Industrial companies, the ones that actually make stuff and keep the economy moving, are worth watching for how they will leverage AI. The industrial AI approach is decidedly pract...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 14, 2026

How aviation maintenance looks at AI systems

Data to Decisions
Aviation companies are looking toward AI to create the capacity needed for growth and manage through a generational change in talent and the institutional knowledge retiring. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 13, 2026

Palihapitiya on AI valuations, energy, auditors

Data to Decisions
Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Captial | 8090, said AI valuations are unsustainable, enterprises need to start talking to their auditors pronto about AI agents and every compa...
Larry Dignan