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We highlighted a couple of stories from our friends at diginomica this week, who have been doing a good job of documenting the evolution from rules based process management to the New World of AI and the practical implications that IT department space. In this video, Charles and I explore some of the implications that Derek du Preez has brought up regarding @Celonis’ approach to AI. https://lnkd.in/gFSidhcD

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess 10 of the buggest topics in tech: Gartner Shares IT Spend Trends & the AI Tax NVIDIA Argues for AI-First Companies Zoho Partners with NVIDIA for Midmarket AI Asana Launches No-Code AI Teammates Celonis Brings Process Mining Logic to AI UiPath Advocates for A More Robotic AI Anthropic Wants to Automate Your Personal Computing OpenAI Hires a Chief Economist Is #GenAI About to Crash? Perplexed by the Terms of Perplexity https://lnkd.in/gpbnnAhz

For the video of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news: Gartner Shares IT Spend Trends & the AI Tax NVIDIA Argues for AI-First Companies Zoho Partners with NVIDIA for Midmarket AI Asana Launches No-Code AI Teammates Celonis Brings Process Mining Logic to AI UIPath Advocates for A More Robotic AI Anthropic Wants to Automate Your Personal Computing OpenAI Hires a Chief Economist Is Gen AI About to Crash? Perplexed by the Terms of Perplexity

Wipro takes a strong leadership stance towards a hybrid work policy. What does it mean if you’re a big tech company that is less flexible than Wipro, a company known for doing a lot of the hard work in IT? Hyoun and Charles debate whether how much of this is about productivity, internal politics, and poor planning. https://lnkd.in/gpW72z33

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park critically assess the biggest tech news for the #CIO and #CTO offices: [01:26] OpenAI and Microsoft Quarrel on the Future of AI [08:22] IBM Finds #AI Divide Between Firms, Consumers [12:08] Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Databricks Partner to Bridge Hardware & AI Models [16:18] The Era of #Nuclear Powered AI Has Begun! [21:37] Wipro Takes a Hybrid Work Stance [29:11] #CIOs Really Need More Focus on Value Creation [35:08] Data Center F*cked Around, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Finally) Found Out

The Nuclear AI Cloud Is Having a Moment as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle now all have nuclear plans in place. Is a nuclear plant in the CIO’s future? Not quite, but Charles and Hyoun are reminded how history may not repeat but it sure does rhyme. https://lnkd.in/gq7Unfpz

In the Age of Cloud Computing, the IBM mainframe is locked into its role in the enterprise and still seeking commitments for investment. Charles and Hyoun discuss how the cost of AI ironically may make mainframe use necessary even longer than expected. https://lnkd.in/gq-cNKwA

Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo discuss how the hype of AI has even entered the Nobel Prize! While the Chemistry prize was about AI in protein design, the Physics one was more of a headscratcher as it went to computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, who trained as a physicist, but is best known for his neuroscience and neural network research. How can #CIOs stay sane in this extreme hype cycle? https://lnkd.in/gYSjG8_4

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess last week's biggest tech news: [01:16] The IBM Mainframe Is Locked Into the Enterprise [06:17] Can SAP Joule Actually Support 80% of Business Tasks? [12:41] #AI Gets the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics! [15:00] When to Call It Quits With AI [20:36] AI Ain’t Always The Answer [23:44] Everyday AI for Everyday People [27:00] Writer Beats Megavendors in AI Workflow Automation [31:23] Apple Researchers Refute Claims of #LLM Formal Reasoning [35:14] #LinkedIn Says It’s Your Fault for Trusting Them

A recent The Wall Street Journal article discussed how Microsoft is now spending 23% of revenue on #CapEx. The big lesson here for CIOs is that the entry cost of training and investing in #AI requires a fundamental shift in spend. Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park discuss how the #CIO office should consider this potential budget breaker. https://lnkd.in/gHzXRv-U