I disagree with the pie-in-the-sky sales pitch (“post-code”? Really?), but the gist is something I’ve been fighting in my career for fifteen years, now.
The cold truth is your leadership team has just been bolting on new products and subscriptions for decades. They have no vision, no architecture expertise, no understanding of how the work gets done. This means they’re easy prey for the kind of marketing slop AI, blockchain, and SaaS offer (savings! Modern! Automation! Layoffs!).
Say it with me, now: your infrastructure and architecture are the problem. The article - marketing, DOGE-boosting, and sales pitch aside - is technically correct. Your enterprise, by not having competent architects and engineers in positions of leadership, is letting millions of dollars of your cash stores get devoured by unnecessary product spend. You don’t need AI, you need discipline and vision to build modern infrastructure for a modern organization, and the will to suffer political blowback as you cut products that don’t deliver meaningful returns to the company or aren’t compatible with said open architecture.
I was PIP'd out within 48hrs after vocalizing this sentiment. Now they are selling an enslopified AI centric product. Employee moral evaporated and yet the powers be deniably (sp) claim everything is fine. Fun times.
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I disagree with the pie-in-the-sky sales pitch (“post-code”? Really?), but the gist is something I’ve been fighting in my career for fifteen years, now.
The cold truth is your leadership team has just been bolting on new products and subscriptions for decades. They have no vision, no architecture expertise, no understanding of how the work gets done. This means they’re easy prey for the kind of marketing slop AI, blockchain, and SaaS offer (savings! Modern! Automation! Layoffs!).
Say it with me, now: your infrastructure and architecture are the problem. The article - marketing, DOGE-boosting, and sales pitch aside - is technically correct. Your enterprise, by not having competent architects and engineers in positions of leadership, is letting millions of dollars of your cash stores get devoured by unnecessary product spend. You don’t need AI, you need discipline and vision to build modern infrastructure for a modern organization, and the will to suffer political blowback as you cut products that don’t deliver meaningful returns to the company or aren’t compatible with said open architecture.
I was PIP'd out within 48hrs after vocalizing this sentiment. Now they are selling an enslopified AI centric product. Employee moral evaporated and yet the powers be deniably (sp) claim everything is fine. Fun times.