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Shantanu Borgohain's avatar

That book "The Sovereign Child" is really interesting(as you have mentioned) yet it is sh*t. Nobody should read or follow such philosophy. I want to ban this book for eternity. 🤮

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MC's avatar

Let's start a movement (to ban it).

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Ian Martorana's avatar

the caption of the sharks got a chortle out of me

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MC's avatar

Was I wrong? 😂

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Ian Martorana's avatar

lmao not at all

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Kevin Mader's avatar

Helped me realize that I was talking like a "techbro" and course correct. Great read!

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MC's avatar

Never too late sir!

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Ian J's avatar

You've definitely won yourself a new subscriber this week and I've already shared this with 10+ people. I don’t see anyone else writing on this important subject with this level of fluency: bravo

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MC's avatar

Trying to keep it real!

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KB's avatar

You are right, folks “selling” AI to enterprises are mostly selling “snake oil”

That said, the real value / danger is new businesses that are ground up “AI powered” that take out existing behemoths especially in tech.

There is no company I am more bearish on that SalesForce.

The era of disaggregation of applications is upon us

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MC's avatar

Yes, you have a point of course however these platforms are incredibly sticky and hard to abandon.

For example, I've been hearing about the "future of ERP" for years now and, instead, the next SAP seems to be SAP.

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KB's avatar

IMHO the way they get disrupted is not by replacing them whole hog at any customer. That is doomed to fail

Instead it will be a classic low end disruption where the features of SFDC will be taken apart.

I mean even in 2019, I ran into a company about to start implementation of PeopleSoft long after it had been sunset

But no new customer adopts them

It will be a lot of “fun”

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Alex Alleman's avatar

So many Fortune 100's fit your description of slow, multi-layered, near-obsolete tech encumbants.....and yet all of them hire the Accenture ilk over and over again to fix it......still here we are.

Maybe a bit of tech bro naivety is what we need.......

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MC's avatar

I'm not sure you got the meaning of the post?

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Tripura Das's avatar

Good one!

But it may be also a remiss not to mention the agent heavy consulting industry is laser focused on $billing hours. For any scope creep and delays it is the Consulting firm that usually gains the most over time. And guess who induces them the most!

How can consultants who have no working relationship with the employees of these big firms somehow become close confidant advisors almost overnight. Most of them are simply sucking up to the massive egos who are cutting checks, and playing politics of power dynamics to always stand to gain regardless of…

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MC's avatar

How can they become advisors? They know the industry and they have worked at competing organizations. That's enough for executives to want to work close with them...

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Tripura Das's avatar

Hmmm not really…I have seen so many consultants struggle at the fundamental levels of understanding for an industry…have worked for the Big-4 and seen it from very close quarters when the handwaving is enough for carpe diem!

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MC's avatar

Off the cuff: the induction work to extrapolate a trend for such an extra-large industry from your anecdotal experience is an inappropriate leap imo.

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Tripura Das's avatar

I can see why you are saying that/defending your position 😁

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