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AI performance is improving fast. So why aren't companies seeing results?   Model performance has improved 60-70% over the last couple of years. But most enterprises still struggle to turn that into business impact.   Matthew Fitzpatrick has spent 12 years in the trenches of enterprise AI, from leading 7,000 engineers at QuantumBlack by McKinsey to running Invisible Technologies, used to improve models for over 80% of the world's top AI companies. His diagnosis of why projects stall is direct:   Messy data. No clear definition of "good." Workflows that were never redesigned. And AI initiatives left entirely to the tech team.   That last one is the biggest. When no business leader takes operational ownership of the outcome, the project spins. And according to the MIT study that Matt validates from his own decade of experience, fewer than 5% of enterprise AI projects ever make it to production.   Full conversation between PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin and Matt Fitzpatrick: Episode #388 of AI and the Future of Work.   🎧 Link in the comments #AI #FutureOfWork #EnterpriseAI #Leadership #AIStrategy #DigitalTransformation #Podcast #TechLeadership

My post about TechWolf's AI event. Some excerpts, full post below and also in the comments. I'm a bit of a Panegyrist in this post, but I'm really feeling positive about TechWolf's momentum. "On Monday and Tuesday I was in Ghent. Ghent was massive hip start up spot in 1300 AD. It is now making a comeback, in part because of the efforts of local founders, the university, investors and the local government." "The Lexroom user engagement numbers were mindblowing, and Martina Domenicali's line “the market is your boss” is a banger." "TechWolf has always been API centric, it has never really had a UI. So unlike almost every other vendor, the API is the first class citizen from the first line of code." " TechWolf is now in pole position to help the world’s largest and complex organizations manage and optimize AI transformation. I’d argue that the company has the strongest AI-first development in HR Tech. It is as much a deeptech company as it is an HR Tech one." "Most ERP and CRM vendors have spent 20 years attempting to convince us all that their UI is a strategic differentiator, so these Road to Damascus API first revelations and simultaneous UI decapitations seem a tad opportunistic, and it will be more painful than initially envisioned. Removing a UI from a complex transaction application is a bit like scraping pomodoro sauce off the pasta." "When we mention a mailbox today, we think of email. Technology has a habit of expropriating a word from the analogue, and we are at the early stage of this with skills. The future of work is going to involve “skilled” software working with skilled humans. Making this work effectively will require HR and other leaders to understand both skill forms. TechWolf has done a lot of heavy lifting, and as the term skills moves from something that HR talks about to being much more significant, it is in a profoundly good place." Here is the post. https://lnkd.in/etZTAxgB (I've tagged a few folks via the image, as the tagging feature is so much easier to use than the one in the text editor, Linkedin on form again). Andreas De Neve 🐺 Jeroen Van Hautte 🐺 Mikaël Wornoo🐺 Jens-Joris Decorte and many more.

👏 Congrats to Jeetu Patel and the team at Cisco on the acquisition of Astrix Security, as Cisco continues expanding its AI security and governance capabilities. In his conversation on AI and the Future of Work, Jeetu explains why enterprise AI adoption depends on solving trust, security, and infrastructure challenges at scale. 🎧 Listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/eNH9e3Er #AI #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseAI #FutureOfWork #Leadership

49% of analyzing and deciding tasks are candidates for agentic AI collaboration. That's not a threat to human judgment. It's an expansion of who gets to use it. Matt Firestone of Microsoft unpacks what that number actually means: not simpler queries, not basic retrieval, complex thinking, deeper research, higher-value work now accessible to more people across an organization. The telemetry backs it up: → 15x year-over-year growth in active agents on Microsoft 365 → 18x in large enterprises More agentic AI in the workflow. More human agency over the work. That's what the data shows. This special episode of AI and the Future of Work, unpacking insights from Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, is now live. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/dmbbwjaa 📋 Read the full WTI: https://lnkd.in/e7DkXVN2 #AI #FutureOfWork #AgenticAI #HumanAgency #EnterpriseAI #DigitalTransformation #Microsoft #Podcast

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Leaders have a transformation strategy. Their employees already moved on without them. Microsoft's 2026 #WorkTrendIndex didn't just run surveys. It pulled trillions of anonymized signals across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and the gap it found between where employees are and where leaders think they are is striking. Only 13% of those surveyed feel adequately rewarded for reinventing work processes. Matt Firestone, General Manager at Microsoft leading product marketing for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents, has a clear message for leaders: the job now is to change the systems and the culture, not design more strategy. That's where the real leverage is. This special episode of AI and the Future of Work, unpacking insights from Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, is now live. 🎧 Link in the comments #AI #FutureOfWork #LeadershipDevelopment #EnterpriseAI #HRLeadership #AgenticAI #WorkplaceCulture #Podcast

 “This is where most people get AI wrong.” If you think AI will do the thinking for you, it won’t. In this conversation, Emmanuel Daniel explains why AI only works when you bring your own originality, and why asking the right questions matters more than having the right answers. Watch this clip, then dive deeper in this week’s episode of AI and the Future of Work. 🎧 Link in the comments.

🧠 Did Financial Markets Distract Us From AI’s Real Potential? This week’s newsletter, inspired by our latest AI and the Future of Work episode, features Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global. He believes AI did not fall short in 2025. Financial markets simply redirected attention toward tokenization, speculation, and short-term value creation. Emmanuel argues the real disruption is still ahead. Not smarter apps or devices, but AI shifting power toward consumers and changing how people interact with banks, products, and institutions. 📩 Read now to explore why the next AI wave may force entire industries to rethink customer relationships, debt, and digital economies. ⬇️

Everyone is talking about what AI will do to their industry.   Emmanuel Daniel is talking about what already happened while everyone was distracted.   The financial markets captured the AI agenda. Tokenization became a valuation game. The real shift kept building quietly in the background.   He's advised governments. He anticipated the digitization of the U.S. dollar before the Genius Act existed. He built a global research institution across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa before most people knew those markets were coming.   This week, PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin brought him onto AI and the Future of Work to ask the question most analysts are still avoiding: what does the next inflection point actually look like?   The answer is not what you're expecting.   New episode out now. Link in comments.   #AI #FutureOfWork #AgenticAI #GlobalFinance #Stablecoins #EmmanuelDaniel #AIAndTheFutureOfWork

Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global and award-winning author and futurist, advises 🌍 leaders, politicians, and global bank 🏦 heads on the future of finance. He has visited 157 countries. This week, Emmanuel shares his wit and wisdom with #TeamHuman on #AI and the #FutureOfWork. Most financial institutions are bracing for the wrong disruption. While the world is distracted by #generativeAI, a deeper shift is happening in the global economy that will redefine the concepts of money and authority. We discussed... ❇️ The Rise of Agentic AI: What happens when AI makes financial decisions ❇️ The End of Banking: What comes after traditional retail banks ❇️ Stablecoins vs. CBDCs: Why state-promoted digital currencies are structurally designed to fail and why stablecoins are the answer ❇️ The Human Advantage: Why "originality of thought" is the only thing AI can't replace 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gMVabehE What do you think? How are #crypto assets and AI redefining finance? #Fintech #Banking #AgenticAI #Geopolitics #DigitalTransformation #Podcast