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AI’s transformative power has reshaped every aspect of the world. Stay ahead with Gartner's actionable insights and expert guidance on AI: ➡️ What Generative AI Means for Business: https://gtnr.it/4ePL9D8 ➡️ Build an AI Literacy Program to Unleash the Power of AI: https://gtnr.it/3VRvVET ➡️ When Not to Use Generative AI: https://gtnr.it/3W6SsyU ➡️ AI is a Cybersecurity Tool and Threat: https://gtnr.it/45SPmSq ➡️ Top Tech Trends, Unpacked: Democratized GenAI: https://gtnr.it/3RTIkXD Find more insights here: https://gtnr.it/3VMdvFC #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenAI #Insights #GenerativeAI

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File under the #REVENUE INCREASES FROM #AI + GENERATIVE AI... Recently, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)'s CEO has been pushing the AI benefits to future revenue for #business and #efficiency in government, and that they're the one's to help guide your way https://lnkd.in/gufrJ8qU (well, it might not be an actual person them - in the future you'll likely be consulting with their new expert-system AI that walks clients through better decision making for anything!). As is the case with most things, ACME Corp is ahead of the game. Check out their CEO's AI comments in the link below! https://lnkd.in/gT5HTCHA

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The widely accepted guideline suggesting CEOs should reach the median pay level within three to four years of tenure begs for a rigorous examination. Explore our piece on executive pay to see if our findings refine or challenge this rule of thumb. #compensation #HumanResources #leadership

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AgTech Ecosystem - sharing this update from Danny Bernstein, founder of HawkTower, an investment firm focused on driving innovation and commercialization in key strategic regions of California, including Monterey County. Danny's metrics are driven by both investment returns and economic development wins. See below for some of the more notable recent wins: 1) Bill Sherrod joins as Venture Partner with a focus on advanced air mobility. Vittoria Lecomte joins as Venture Partner with analyst experience on Fitbit and GoPro IPOs. 2) HawkTower has a strategic partnership with Tesserakt Ventures, an early stage VC firm in Central California. Daniel Emilio Sabzehzar and Phoenix Skeahan join HawkTower as Venture Partner and Operating Partner respectively, to help with sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support. 3) Lenny Mendonca is a new advisor (formerly served as Governor Newsom's Chief Economic and Business Advisor and is also a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company). 4) I have also joining Team HawkTower as an advisor, focused on AgTech innovation that can drive California economic development. HawkTower's first investment was in Farm-ng. Farm-NG is exactly what funds like HawkTower are looking for - strong team with a very cool platform product and 100% locally based at their Watsonville HQ location. Farm-NG has growth opportunities across multiple grower segments, solid partnership and distribution opportunities, and will use the capital to continue to evolve their product and go-to market strategies. 5) HawkTower is working with engineering advisors from UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly, and UC Merced. All of them recognize the opportunity the region represents that HawkTower is working on investing in. These advisors will strengthen the pipeline to keep local talent in the area and make sure the HawkTower investments have access to local talent early and often. Each of these items represents great progress from Danny - together it shows the momentum he and the team are building. If you're a startup looking for an introduction to Danny, please DM me and I am happy to help. If you're an investor looking for a discussion with Danny, same offer. #economicdevelopment #venturecapital #cacentralcoast

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Single family housing starts were up 23.8% y-o-y. In their key findings, National Association of Home Builders said the year-over-year growth rates for all single-family markets increased to positive territory for the first time since 2021. This positive news was fueled by the limited amount of existing inventory and pent-up demand for single-family construction. InGenius data can show you which builders in your MSA are busy.    #actionableintelligence #growthmultiplier

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Looking to negotiate more PTO, a pay raise or perhaps even a promotion? This WIT Academy Workshop is for you!     On May 8th, come learn how to Negotiate Like an Empowered Woman from Corinne Sharp, Co-Founder of The WIT Network.  https://bit.ly/4cOuVcj     Negotiations do not need to be uncomfortable. They should be a positive movement forward and it is all about getting to the best solution for all parties involved. Corinne will coach you into a master negotiator!    According to the article by Forbes, women are more likely than men to ask for higher compensation, but women still earn less than men! I’d love to see the day when equal pay is not something we have to fight for.  https://lnkd.in/gb45afSA        #genderpayequity #equalpay #negoitiations #negotiation #negotiationskills #womeninbiz #empowerment #empoweringwomen 

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🤖 M&A is not exempt from the transformative impact AI will have on our industries. Remember, it won't be the technology that replaces you but the professionals who embrace its capabilities. ⚡️🦾 As CEO & Founder of DealRoom and Chief Scientist at M&A Science, we're AI-obsessed. From educational resources to platform integration and practical use case implementation, we're delivering M&A-driven solutions to help maximize your deal-making. #AI #TechInnovation #DealRoom #MAScience #FutureOfWork

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Predictive analytics in healthcare is not just a powerful tool but an essential strategy for ensuring financial stability and efficiency. Its ability to transform revenue forecasting makes it indispensable for modern healthcare providers. 💯 #healthcare #predictiveanalytics

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AI experts are embracing the opportunities to improve healthcare by giving users more insight into their health metrics. https://lnkd.in/gcPmaEaN

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All (for profit) companies exist with one simple objective: Maximize shareholder value. We would love for them to focus on things like ESG and DEI initiatives too - stakeholder value - and companies will do that if it drives objective #1 above. So let's talk about shareholder value in the channel. (This post was inspired by Insight today). The lowest valuations in the $4.94 trillion tech industry are carried by distribution. With a business model primarily built around transactions, supply chain, and little in terms of end-customer relationships, investors respond accordingly. For example, the largest distributor in the world, TD SYNNEX is valued at 17 cents to the dollar (You could acquire $56 billion in revenue - more than Coca-Cola, McDonald's, or Nike - for slightly less than $10 billion). The next-lowest valuation is pure resell revenue. Also transactionally focused, the value comes in the end-customer relationships and higher probability of repeatability. One of the fastest growing resellers in the world, Computacenter, is valued at 42 cents for every dollar of revenue. Today, Insight acquired Infocenter who was ServiceNow's partner of the year. This came a few months after acquiring SADA, An Insight company, who was Google's partner of the year 6 times(!) Under the leadership of Joyce Mullen, a long-time channel luminary, Insight has been diversifying its revenue and investing in growth markets. This has led to a near-doubling of the stock price in 2 years and a current value of 63 cents to the dollar ($9.2 billion in revenue is valued at $5.8 billion). Interestingly, SADA and Infocenter were both growing much faster than the vendor's they specialized on. To put it in perspective, Google is worth $6.50 per dollar of revenue and ServiceNow a staggering $14 per dollar. Partners can grow their business faster than vendors because of the multiplier effect - the amount of services a customer requires to get the products to work is up in the 6-7X range of what they spend on the products themselves (whether done in house or outsourced to a third party). Services as whole across our industry (today make up 2/3 of the entire pie) are also outgrowing most hardware and software categories. Should partners who are specializing in fast growth markets and outgrowing some of the titans of industry be valued higher? World GDP growth this year will be shy of 3% while the tech industry will double that (6.2%). Should partners such as managed services providers who are growing at double that (12%) be worth even more than today? Does winning partner of the year inside a rocket-ship platform ensure you get into the M&A room at the major players? Thoughts?

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Dive into the labyrinth of bureaucratic #NDIS double-speak that is the "Analysis of Committed Supports, Payments, and #Utilization Trends". Strap in; this isn’t just a joyride through the thrilling world of numbers and trends—it’s an exploration into the dark arts of policy manipulation and veiled intentions! Let’s decode the language of the benevolent bureaucrats, shall we? The report gloriously parades a "year-on-year increase in average payments". Bravo! Or should we pause and ponder? Could this perhaps be a cunning prelude to justifying #budget cuts? "Look, we're spending more each year!" they cry, as they sharpen the scissors to cut deeper into the lifelines of those who depend on these funds. And oh, how they highlight the underutilization of budgets! It’s almost like a magician’s sleight of hand—"Watch this underutilization issue here, don't look at us potentially overcomplicating the process to access these funds." It’s a classic case: If people can’t navigate the maze we create, we’ll just blame them for not using the resources, right? Now, let’s talk about those conflicts of interest. Service providers versus participants—it’s like a never-ending tug-of-war where only one side is eating their spinach. With #service providers possibly holding sway over how supports are priced and structured, it’s a playground for policies that might just prioritize profit over people. And the administrative growth—because what’s a government initiative without a blooming bureaucracy? Let’s beef up the admin ranks, because surely what the people need is more paper-pushers and fewer actual services! Let’s not forget the philosophical paradoxes and wicked problems. Balancing financial sustainability with actual, meaningful support? Sounds like a modern-day Herculean task, except Hercules never had to deal with government policy. So, as the report wraps up with its promises of participant-centered approaches and alignment with the #UNCRPD , one has to wonder: Are these genuine goals, or just pretty words to fill out the page? Will this tale of numbers and trends lead to a fairytale ending for all, or just a select few who hold the pen? Marie J. Dr George Taleporos (GAICD, PhD) Karen Kline Graham Taylor Mark Sweeney Office of Senator Jordon Steele-John

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UNWASTING POTENTIAL: #GenerativeAI initiatives enabling 10X impact. Marketing leaders face increasing pressure to demonstrate business impact, with nearly 60% of CMOs feeling the heat, according to a recent HBR study. Key areas of focus include revenue growth and operational efficiency. #CMOs are turning to Generative AI to boost performance, productivity, ingenuity, quality, and compliance. The goal? Hyper-personalized engagement to convert potential buyers into loyal customers. With 60% of CMOs* allocating budget to G-AI initiatives, the question arises: how best to invest these resources? Companies are turning to AI-Sherpas** for strategic guidance, while tech-savvy executives explore in-house solutions and experiment with various tools. Enter the "born-in-AI Marketech" vendors, integrating AI and real-time data seamlessly, paving the way for omnichannel personalization. By smartly integrating G-AI into existing workflows, CMOs can unlock significant time and talent savings. Zeta Global in this video exemplifies G-AI's potential, offering 10x productivity gains through innovative solutions like: HTML Agents, Audience co-Pilot, Visual Composer, multiple agents woven into AI workflows stitched together within one environment, continuously update with the best of breed G-AI technologies: https://lnkd.in/eRahQszu Driven by a passion to eliminate waste, my team and I focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions that enhance customer experience and fuel sustainable growth. If you're interested in harnessing the power of Generative AI and audience-led data marketing, reach out to me for a conversation. *Source CMO Council report this month **The New York Times article - see comments #B2B #MarTech #Digital

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Executive Execution & Financial Motivation- Mixing it Up in a Visionary Future Blur… Attending ‘The Fast Future Blur’ Summit, An ‘Executive Management & AI Directed Vision’ conference. Supporting all aspects of future executive leadership, including financial relationships. From my DACFP financial markets related digital assets conference-Austin posts last week, to this summit, AI and DeFi (Decentralized Finances, Blockchain/Digital Assets, Etc.) relationships will be a part of Executive Management execution, including a Blur with ‘DePIN’ relationships. DePIN = Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) refers to the application of blockchain technology and decentralization principles to physical infrastructure and systems. This summit/conference is opening up with high energy and vision…I can feel it in the room… #FamilyOffice #HighNetWorth #InvestmentManagement #AssetManagement #MultiFamilyOffice #VentureCapital #VC #Foundations #HighNetWorth #NextGen

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🚀 As Baby Boomers and Gen X'ers transition towards retirement, a new era emerges with Millennials and Gen Z shaping the workplace narrative. With over 40% of the US population represented by these dynamic cohorts, understanding their impact is crucial. 🔗 Dive deeper into the core disparities between these generations and their workplace implications in our latest blog post! https://hubs.la/Q02z7CyB0 #Millennials #GenZ #WorkplaceCulture #HRInsights #EmployeeEngagement

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LLMs are unique in the way they give wrong answers confidently.... Enterprise #adoption of GenAI for Production use cases is still #low. Enterprises need LLMs to give deterministic answers and not hallucinate at all else the process fails. Unfortunately, hallucinations while they seem harmless while using ChatGPT, but in an Enterprise process they are disastrous specially because of the reason that LLMs give these answers with such finesse that you can get deceived and not check the source. #LLMTalk Follow: Prateek Bansal

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In a world of abundant agents, the future of application software is likely to be very different to the paradigm we've had for the last two decades. AI-native applications are all about data. Agentic systems capable of automating entire swathes of services sectors will work asynchronously, 24x7, relying on tool use and function calling. To get maximum value from these RAG applications, enterprises will need to process their data and ensure its in the right structure and quality to be consumed by agents. That's where the historical silos of CRM/ERP/ITSM/HCM may give way to data lakehouses like Databricks' announcements last week of Mosaic's AI agent framework that leverages your unified data. There will be inertia, no doubt, but the enterprises of tomorrow who are data-light will reason from first principles when getting AI applications off the ground. Standalone business application software vendors will also make efforts to consolidate adjacencies e.g. Workday and Salesforce. https://lnkd.in/ejATcYh5

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