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AI Does Not Transform Businesses. Better Decisions Do

insights  ·  10 min read

AI Does Not Transform Businesses. Better Decisions Do

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, yet the economic evidence is far less decisive. Most CEOs say their AI transformations are realizing only part of their intended results, and widespread adoption has produced little profit and loss impact. The usual explanations point to scale, data, talent or change management. The deeper error is mistaking the deployment of AI for the transformation of the business. AI does not transform a business by generating content or predicting an outcome. Better decisions do.

5 Sep 2026 AI strategy
Why AI Vendors Need Accelerators as Much as Runtimes

Strategy  ·  10 min read

Why AI Vendors Need Accelerators as Much as Runtimes

Enterprise technology vendors have invested heavily in the infrastructure required to run AI. Processors, inference engines, model-serving platforms and runtimes have made AI faster, safer and easier to operate. Yet technical progress has not consistently translated into production adoption. A runtime answers an engineering question about whether a model can execute on a platform. It does not answer the customer's investment question about which decision will improve and what value that creates. Accelerators are the missing product layer that turns a technically possible capability into a commercially repeatable one.

5 Sep 2026 AI strategy
The Evolution of Transaction Processing: Modernizing Decisions in Every Transaction

Strategy  ·  13 min read

The Evolution of Transaction Processing: Modernizing Decisions in Every Transaction

Why the next phase of enterprise modernization is AI-enabled decision modernization.

1 Jun 2026 IBM Z AI
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Transactional AI and Agentic AI

Article  ·  6 min read

The Symbiotic Relationship Between Transactional AI and Agentic AI

The future of enterprise AI is not built solely on agents. It is built on the relationship between decision intelligence and operational execution, and the infrastructure capable of running both at the scale and resilience that mission-critical environments demand.

28 May 2026 AI Agentic AI
Trust Before Technology: Closing a Major Government IT Contract in the Middle East

Brief  ·  7 min read

Trust Before Technology: Closing a Major Government IT Contract in the Middle East

In government IT procurement in the Gulf, the technical case is necessary but not sufficient. Here's what the negotiation that preceded a significant managed services contract actually required.

12 May 2025 Strategy Enterprise
What Happens When Your Vendor Has Skin in the Game: EA in São Paulo

Brief  ·  9 min read

What Happens When Your Vendor Has Skin in the Game: EA in São Paulo

A profit-sharing arrangement with a Brazilian conglomerate changed how every architecture decision got made. Here's what building an EA practice looks like when the incentives are aligned.

5 May 2025 Architecture Strategy