Category: Automation

  • Over 27 million jobs are exposed to AI-evaporation across the Global 2000

    Twenty-seven million. That is the number of corporate roles across the Global 2000 that HFS Research identifies as meaningfully exposed to AI-driven elimination, displacement, or fundamental redesign over the next three years. Not factory-floor jobs or gig roles, but 27 million white-collar, salaried, benefits-eligible positions held by people who built careers on the assumption that their employer had a plan for the future. Sadly, most employers do not, and the workers carrying the most exposure are the ones least likely to know it.Read More

  • Anthropic just weaponized the Palantir model. The entire services industry is now in the crosshairs.

    Anthropic has announced a $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to launch an AI-native enterprise services company. This is not a services land grab, but a play to own the execution layer before service providers understand what they are about to lose.Read More

  • Say CIAO to the CAIO in 36 months

    January 10, 2026 | ,

    Only appoint a Chief AI Officer if you're committed to giving them COO/CEO-level authority to kill initiatives, force standards, and drive uncomfortable organizational change, and only if you're prepared for the role to disappear within 36 months as AI embeds into every functional leader's responsibility.Read More

  • Don’t confuse America’s robotaxi chaos with innovation – China already chose certainty over debate

    December 20, 2025 | ,

    Big tech leaders are betting you'll jump into AI-fueled robotaxis. However, these represent one of the first genuine examples of AI requiring behavioral change at a societal level. However, the technology isn't yet ready to scale, consumers are hesitant to trust it, and we haven't addressed the deeper question: who's accountable when the algorithm gets it wrong?Read More

  • When your lift-and-shift still stinks: How AI can finally fix the mess you outsourced

    November 18, 2025 | ,

    Let's be blunt... your outsourcing engagement stinks pretty bad. You’re three years into your five-year deal and you’ve got a low-cost service provider managing your old ways of working, complete with manual approvals, 23-step handoffs, meager 3% annual efficiency improvements, and weekly Excel wars. If your KPI dashboard looks cleaner, that’s only because you’ve spent more on Power BI. But here’s the good news... AI might finally be the disinfectant we’ve been waiting for.Read More

  • AI will never save bad leadership: Pay your leadership debt to put Humans at the Helm

    October 28, 2025 | ,

    Leaders are overpromised on technology and underdeveloped on humanity. That gap is what we term "leadership debt" and it’s the most expensive liability no CFO can measure. The leaders who win in the AI era will not be those who master neural networks, but will be those who master themselves. Leadership is not a byproduct of transformation, it is the precondition for it. The AI economy will be led by humans at the helm. Here we discuss the critical six leadership behaviors to succeed in the AI age...Read More

  • Vibe Coding is the production engine that turns the Services-as-Software from vision to reality

    September 02, 2025 | ,

    Vibe Coding is the production engine that makes Services-as-Software real, and it will decide the winners of the next decade. Enterprises can no longer afford to treat AI as bolt-ons or outsourcing-lite. Services-as-Software is a new operating model where AI agents, LLMs, and Vibe Coding collapse the gap between software and services, shifting the economics of IT from people and licenses to reusable, outcome-based digital service layers.Read More

  • The analyst industry is having its Blockbuster moment

    August 09, 2025 |

    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

    July 29, 2025 | ,

    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

  • How Generative and Agentic AI are Supercharging the OneOffice Data Cycle

    June 10, 2025 |

    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