Innovation and Product-led Growth focuses on driving business expansion through continuous product innovation and user-centric development. This approach emphasizes creating products that solve real customer problems, deliver exceptional user experiences, and have the potential to grow organically through user adoption and word-of-mouth. By prioritizing product value and user satisfaction, companies can accelerate customer acquisition, increase retention, build a vibrant partner ecosystem, and achieve sustainable growth without relying heavily on traditional sales and marketing strategies.
CFO confidence has it its highest point in four years as 59% of CFOs say it's a good time to take risks, according to Deloitte's fourth quarter CFO Signals report.
Salesforce buyers are quietly raising the bar as Agentforce 360 moves from promise to practice. TCS’ acquisition of Coastal Cloud offers a clue into how GSIs are repositioning to meet those expectations.
This mashup of AI and media is just starting. The deal between OpenAI and Disney is just the first volley.
AWS re:Invent 2025 featured the usual firehose of news, announcements and tech talks, but it's also clear that AWS is becoming a different company. Yes, AWS is firmly committed to developers and dedicated to creating building blocks needed to scale agentic AI. But AWS is clearly more than an infrastructure company now. Yet it is not quite a software company either.
AWS re:Invent marked a pivotal shift in the cloud giant's trajectory. Moving beyond its traditional focus on core compute primitives, AWS is aggressively "moving up the stack" to dominate applied AI, data strategy, and agentic frameworks.
Amazon Connect is the lead for AWS when it comes to taking a bunch of building blocks and "primitives" and compiling them for enterprise use cases. Amazon Connect isn't about being a contact center application as much as it is addressing customer-facing use cases starting with service.
Amazon Web Services is adding AI agent policy and evaluation features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in a move that aims to solve the big issues that keep enterprises from moving from proof of concept to production.
Warby Parker is entering its third act that will be powered by AI on two fronts: Productivity and revenue growth. Neil Blumenthal, President and Co-CEO, said on the company's third quarter earnings call that the eyeglass retailer's next act will be "defined by innovation through AI."
SavATree, a landscape services company that operates across 40 US states, generated $1.5 million in returns by better engaging and training its frontline workers.
An IBM executive said the company's steady and practical approach to quantum computing will win out over the bluster that's emerging from multiple vendors.
Confidence with caution: How CxOs are rebuilding growth through technology
Large language models are at an interesting juncture. LLM breakthroughs have slowed and there are questions about whether they will lead to artificial general intelligence. Coupled with concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble LLMs are going to be closely watched--especially since they're the key ingredient of agentic AI.
