Insights on Work, Talent, Learning, Leadership, and HR Technology
I just attended the Eightfold user conference where they introduced TalentForge, a toolset to build agents, and the CEO Ashutosh Garg told us their HR team could build their own HRMS.
Gloat is offering much of the same toolset, with integrations into Microsoft Teams, Copilot, Gemini and Claude – and you can import all your ... Read more»
We’re now at a stage where enterprise-class AI solutions are real, and suppliers are jockeying for position. Microsoft has consolidated its Copilot efforts into a more integrated offering, and also raised prices. Workday and ServiceNow have defined new consumption-based pricing models which shift from “buying seats” to “buying capacity.”
The Frontier model vendors like Anthropic ... Read more»
This week ServiceNow launched a massive set of new products to establish itself as the system that manages every AI agent in the enterprise.
It’s a bold set of new products, including Otto (Moveworks), the Agent Fabric, the Context Engine, and the Autonomous AI Specialists. In reality the strategy is an expanded view of what ... Read more»
ServiceNow just unleashed a barrage of announcements that set the stage for its goal: doubling revenue to $30 billion in the next four years. In a nutshell, they want to own the management tools, security, and front door to every AI agent in your company. And they’re going to ask you to pay for ... Read more»
I had an uplifting conversation with Jen Morgan, the CEO of UKG, a $5 billion global AI platform for HR, pay, and workforce management. In addition to talking about the company and her role as CEO, she actually has another mission: to put Frontline Workers first in our economy.
Frontline workers, the people who ... Read more»
This week we saw some astounding GDP numbers, a modest 2% growth with an astounding 70% attributed to AI capital spending. The US economy is heavily AI centric, starving spending on housing which ultimately contributes to income inequality. At the same time companies are now reducing employee benefits, halting a two decade steady increase. It’s ... Read more»
What does it take to bridge one of the most persistent translation problems in talent acquisition – getting a Fortune 500 recruiter to see why a Little Bird attack helicopter pilot from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is the perfect candidate for their open role? Tim Best, CEO of RecruitMilitary and former active duty ... Read more»
This week I discuss Workday’s new AI announcements described at the Innovation Summit last week. These are sweeping new product, leadership, and organizational changes that effectively reposition from a “system of record” to a “platform of agents.”
As you’ll hear, not only is Workday clearly articulating their strategy to support and enable Agentic HR and ... Read more»
Workday, a pioneer in enterprise applications for finance and HR, has struggled to reinvent itself in the age of AI. This week, in a compelling and integrated way, the company unveiled a clear strategy for the future, leveraging its almost $3 billion of acquisitions (HiredScore, Evisort, Paradox, Sana), a new management team, and a repositioning ... Read more»
This week I recap a busy week including corporate AI stories, Workday’s AI reinvention, more on tech Layoffs, and fears of AI-driven surveillance. The important story is that Enterprise AI is much more complex than most imagine yet the AI vendors like Anthropic and OpenAI make it sound deceptively simple.
In reality, as I explain, ... Read more»
In this episode, Kathi Enderes sits down with Rob McAuslan, Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), one of the world’s largest and most innovative online universities with more than 200,000 students.
Before leading SNHU’s AI strategy, Rob taught, worked, and volunteered across Africa, the Mediterranean, and East Asia, working
As OpenAI and Anthropic talk about going public, everyone is fascinated. These two companies with battling CEOs make up the drama of today’s AI industry. And as more information comes out from their public offering, everyone is wondering how they will compete with each other. (Listen to my latest podcast on culture in AI companies... Read more»
This week, as Ronan Farrow’s expose on Sam Altman was published, I want to sensitize you to the fact that AI companies are run by humans. And this means that what we buy and how it works is very dependent on leadership, culture, values, ethics, and the personal motivations of these young, ambitious executives.
Obviously ... Read more»
The Microsoft Copilot is even more expansive than you think. In this podcast (and detailed article on Substack) you see how Microsoft’s new Copilot “surface” (ie. product strategy) is likely to give them the lead in revenue and market share for Enterprise AI.
There are many players to consider here: Anthropic, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, and ... Read more»
One of the new enterprise AI challenges we face is this: where do we put all the business rules, security rules, policies, and company specific practices we’ve built into our legacy systems for the last 30 years? If we want to embark on Agentic HR (or any other domain), do we rebuild all these rules ... Read more»
