Christine Gilroy

Vijay Mehrotra and I recently interviewed Richard Savoie, the founder and CEO of Adiona, a last-mile software vendor. See article for the link to the interview. This discussion reminded me of my LogicTools days. Here are my five big takeaways: One, in supply chain and transportation modeling, reducing costs directly correlates with emissions reduction. Richard created Adiona with the idea of reducing emissions. He discusses how last-mile logistics is a big source of emissions. But, just as important, when you come up with solutions to reduce emissions, you also tend to reduce costs. We saw this at LogicTools when we added carbon modeling to our solutions. The same solutions that reduced carbon also tended to create cost savings. When I talk to engineering students interested in emission reduction, I often point them to supply chain modeling. Two, presales is an interesting career. I’ve written about this before, and I’m sure students are tired of hearing me say it. In short, I find presales intellectually interesting, and it allows you to interact with customers. Richard backs me up. Three, operational tools can be used by the sales team. If you build a tool to help analyze and improve operations (like Richard’s last-mile product, or LogicTools’s supply chain design), you will often find users who are interested in sales questions. For example, in Richard’s case, the sales team wanted to use the product to understand the cost and impact of adding another client. Four product management is about trade-offs. At LogicTools, I did a lot of product management, but didn’t think of it like that. Richard also explains the trade-offs I saw: balancing conflicting customer requests and deciding what is best for the entire customer base. Richard also has a background in medical devices, so it was interesting to hear how that mindset applies to this space. Five, he takes a cluster-first, route-second approach. I’m always curious about the algorithms behind the solutions, especially in vehicle routing. I use these examples in my supply chain class. His approach to clustering sounds interesting. Enjoy the interview.

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Oracle’s Miranda Nash sits down with Lareina Yee, senior partner at McKinsey, to share insights on how your business can take advantage of the latest AI innovations to navigate disruption and fuel productivity. Tune in July 16! https://lnkd.in/gB3FNM8X

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Honored to help foster Opkey’s expanded partnership with Argano . This milestone is more than an announcement—it’s a signal to the market that world-class delivery for Oracle implementations is now within reach for every leading SI. With Opkey’s agentic AI-native platform at the core, partners like Argano can deliver results for enterprise clients that were previously out of reach: Up to 50% faster Oracle project timelines Lower risk and greater confidence, powered by 10,000+ pre-built test cases and intelligent process mining End-to-end automation, freeing teams to focus on strategic transformation, not repetitive tasks Our vision has always been to empower SIs to deliver exceptional, future-ready services . Today, we take a big step forward. Excited for what’s next—and deeply grateful to everyone making this possible. Let’s GO! #Oracle #Innovation #Opkey #Argano #EnterpriseTransformation #SIPartners

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI Service now offers the xAI Grok 4 model within Oracle's US Top Secret classified cloud environment.

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#LarryEllison outlined Oracle's data-centric & #AI-powered strategy for 2026 & beyond in the company's fiscal-Q2 earnings call last month. Notably, the plan encompasses not only its runaway OCI biz, but also its apps & new AI Database & AI Data Platform. Read more in Cloud Wars. https://lnkd.in/eGwS6aJ6

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Big news: we're joining forces with the data science experts at MIT to launch a predictive Business Spend Index, utilizing our $8 trillion in spend data to help business leaders bolster resiliency, optimize savings, and drive growth.   https://bit.ly/4gS7pgW

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What does it really take to move AI from idea to production in 90 days or less? Egen Chairman and CEO Saleem Janmohamed and Salim Hasham, Director of AI Transformation at Google Cloud, discuss how focusing on the right use cases helps organizations unlock real human potential and deliver impact at scale. Watch the full conversation on The AI Vantage. Link in the comments. #AccelerateValue #AIFirst #GoogleCloudPartner

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CEOs are betting on autonomous supply chains to drive business growth — but only 12% believe their CSCOs have the AI expertise to deliver. Are you ready to lead? See how to align with your CEO’s vision and build the core capabilities to maximize growth: https://gtnr.it/4oUjNA4 Gartner for Supply Chain | #GartnerSC #SupplyChain #AutonomousBusiness #AI

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