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The analyst industry is having its Blockbuster moment
The future of the analyst industry is here, but most of its stakeholders are simply not ready. You only need to see the stock price carnage of Gartner and Forrester to realize the analyst and advisor industry are in grave danger of being runover by AI. The Futurum Group CEO, Daniel Newman, and I take a hard look at the future of the analyst industry in the era of ChatGPT-5 and agentic AI.Read More
Don’t hide behind AI to trim your belly fat. Start redesigning your workforce
Microsoft, Amazon, Citigroup, UPS, Google, McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, and many others have all recently laid off staff under the AI smokescreen. The headlines say it is about automation and AI readiness, but that is not the whole story... not even close.Read More
Trump’s American AI Powerplay: Get on board or get left behind
Love him or loathe him, let's be clear... President Trump's new AI Action Plan isn't just political theatre, it's a strategic sledgehammer aimed at reshaping the global AI landscape in America's favor. This is your wake-up call, whether you're leading a tech firm or steering an enterprise. Align with the American AI stack, or prepare for a long ride in the slow tech lane.Read More
Why the analyst advisor industry is getting obliterated by AI… and how to save it
The analyst and advisor industries, reliant on IP and research to market their products, are in serious trouble, and many firms will cease to exist in a couple of years. What's really worrying is the recent speed of development with AI platforms, agentic software, and LLMs, which is, quite frankly, making the use of analysts and advisors increasingly irrelevant.Read More
Can Manish reinvent Accenture to deliver reinvention?
I am personally excited for my good friend Manish Sharma taking on the challenge of bringing together Accenture’s crown jewels of Strategy, Consulting, Song, Technology, and Operations to spearhead its Reinvention Services capability. Today's services playbook is changing radically and all the leading providers have no choice but to practice what they preach and take themselves through painful bottom-up change, where they need to focus on repaying their legacy debts of the last two decades to reinvent their own cultures, break down their silos and create distinct value for their clients. Being a true services-as-software provider necessitates a completely integrated company operating under one mission, one culture, one brand and one united leadership team energized by working together. But if anyone can pull this off, Manish can...Read More
Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job
Here's the cold, hard truth about employment today—we're judged by one ruthless metric: how much you cost versus how much value we deliver. With AI reshaping expectations, the tipping point where our value fails to justify our price tag is frighteningly closer than most of us will admit.Read More
How Generative and Agentic AI are Supercharging the OneOffice Data Cycle
We finally have an injection of rocket fuel from Generative and Agentic AI to create intelligent agents that can sense, decide, and act with autonomy... as long as we have our data strategy right. To be a truly autonomous organization, the principles of OneOffice hold truer than ever: workflows executed in real-time between customers and employees that engage partners right across our business ecosystems.Read More
AI agents are redefining commerce by eliminating legacy B2B SaaS
Visa and Mastercard just escalated the war for the future of commerce—not with another app, but with autonomous AI agents that buy on your behalf. These aren't lab experiments. Visa’s Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard’s Agent Pay are foundational shifts designed to embed payments into AI platforms that consumers already trust. The implications for enterprise commerce are nothing short of seismic.Read More
Meet Babak, one of agentic’s original inventors
If you’re an enterprise leader staring down ballooning tech debt, rising pressure for AI transformation, and daily new product drops that all scream “innovate now or be left behind,” stop. Take a breath—and read this wide-ranging Q&A between Cognizant CTO Babak Hodjat and HFS Executive Research Leader David Cushman.Read More
Services-as-Software threatens to kill off BPO specialists as WNS eyes Capgemini as a strategic exit partner
As speculation of a Capgemini takeover of WNS hots up, you have to question the future of BPO specialist firms as the worlds of services and software continue to blend together in a rapidly emerging $1.5 trillion market, which HFS last year termed "Services-as-Software".Read More
