Are you a victim of multitasking, and do you understand what it truly means?
How often have you heard someone say I am fantastic at “multitasking”? Have you always thought that was a good thing? I have never thought about the entire topic, but I have now read Devora Zach’s book “Singletasing: Get More Done-One Thing at a Time.” and it did open my eyes and gave some valuable…
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Should you say goodbye to C/C++ development? CISA says you should by 2026 due to cybersecurity concerns
Things change with time. Earlier in my career, most of the software products I was responsible for were built using C/C++, and it was common that being good at it required really good programming skills from the developer. I also remember running into bugs caused by memory “pointers,” which were hard to find. However, C/C++…
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What business are you really in? Have you defined your north star in your business?
I ran into Tony Robbins’s LinkedIn postingand was inspired to reflect on his question: What business are you really in? As business owners, we have to ask that question regularly to ensure that our competitiveness and the value we deliver to our clients are still something the clients are willing to pay for. We should…
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The old rule of data warehousing also applies to AI – focusing on data quality and governance
I have spent more than half of my career building data warehousing and business intelligence solutions-in fact, that is where I also did my doctorate dissertation. I quickly learned the old rule“garbage in, garbage out”when implementing data warehouses and business intelligence solutions. The time was typically spent mostly in the ETL (extraction, transformation, and load)…
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Is the software industry moving away from user-based pricing to agent-based pricing?
Ibbaka shared an interesting newsletter describing how Salesforce’s Mark Benioff (founder and CEO) is yet again redefining the software industry. Mr. Benioff became famous with his “No software” statements when leaving Oracle and forming Salesforce.com, which was purely based on SaaS and could not be installed in an on-premises environment. The software market has been…
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What frameworks can an incumbent solution vendor use to monetize AI features (Part 2)?
In the previous article (part 1), I reviewed a research study by Lenny and Broe, in which they studied 44 incumbent technology companies and their AI packaging strategy and monetization model. The study’s results were clear. The predominant strategy for incumbent companies is to bundle AI features into existing packages (59%), and the second most…
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How do you monetize your AI features and examples from known incumbent companies? A study of 44 companies (Part 1)
I summarized an interesting research study of 40 companies in my previous article. Kyle Polar and Palle Broe reviewed these companies based on several dimensions: pricing models, value metrics, packaging, free versions, and pricing transparency. These were native AI companies, not incumbent companies that added AI features to their solutions. My upcoming article (part 2)…
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How AI apps make money – an interesting study of 40 companies
Every software vendor or organization creating intellectual property (IP) using AI should pay attention to the solution’s monetization. In my previous articles, I emphasized that the pricing of a solution with Generative AI embedded needs to be considered differently. It I wrote about the harsh reality that software vendors are facing a new reality in…
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Scaling coaching and development to an entire organization powered by AI and LLM
We are truly living in an AI era, and organizations are striving to find ways to take advantage of AI, but many don’t know how to go about it. Many software solutions have already embedded AI into their solutions, which takes away the complexity of AI from the organizations that want to get their personnel…
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What are the real upskill needs for software engineers in the AI Era?
I have been posting quite a few articles in which I have encouraged people in different professions to educate themselves on what AI means for them, their company, and the potential future of their work. Gartner says that generative AI will require 80% of the engineering workforce to upskill through 2027. AI will spawn new…
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