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A CRM that delivers nothing is a failed project. An ERP that burns money and changes nothing is a failed project. An AI initiative does it and everyone wants to debate definitions. AI does not get a different scoreboard because the demo looked impressive.
#AI #Leadership #TechLeadership #ProductManagement #Strategy
Convenience is not free, it is financed. The AI version has a specific shape: you can outsource judgment without noticing you did it. The bill arrives at an audit, a migration, or an outage. Always when you most need to know why something is the way it is.
"Vendor AI-powered taglines are often just a gimmick." 📊
JMAN Group Partner Natalie Ogude delivers direct advice on avoiding superficial AI strategies. She highlights treating models like human colleagues with proper context and keeping algorithms far from final ethical decisions.
Read:
https://www.techfinitive.com/interviews/natalie-ogude-partner-at-jman-group/
What would a full-time CTO even do all week at a company your size? Honestly, not enough to fill one. Before Series A, the CTO work that can sink you is a short list of decisions: the stack, your first developer, build versus buy, how the product is structured. I made those calls for local business owners in 2004, and the list has barely changed. Judgment on them does not take forty hours a week.
I have never regretted saying I do not know in front of my team. The fear is that it costs authority. What it does is tell everyone that not knowing is survivable here. The cost of looking certain is how late the bad news arrives.
#Leadership #Management #TeamBuilding #Culture #TechLeadership
Every dead vendor leaves a body worth examining and almost nobody does it. Roadmap changed after acquisition. Pricing shifted once switching cost was high. We do postmortems on outages, which are loud. Not on vendors, which are quiet and cost more.
#AI #VendorManagement #TechLeadership #Procurement #Strategy
I can tell you where automation stops in IT ops, security, and compliance, because I have watched it stop there. The general theory of what AI cannot do is the least reliable genre in tech writing. Everyone extrapolates from one domain into four they do not know.