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{COVID-19 will take its toll {} spending this year, according to a report by Deloitte out this afternoon. |} (CEO Daily obtained an early appearance.) Planned spending would be down about 7 percent this year from this past year. Along with a whopping 64 percent of the purchasing budget is going to be spent on the internet. You may see the whole research here.
Separately, C3.ai CEO and Founder Tom Siebel is the guest this week about the podcast Leadership Next. You are going to want to listen to what he’s got to sayand not just because he informs being mauled by a giant elephant. Siebel has become a successful entrepreneur for several years and hammering multiple technologies waves. However he says there’s been nothing similar to the tide that is breaking today –that a combination of cloud computing, large info and artificial intelligence:
“This electronic transformation is occurring at 100 times the rate of this industrial revolution with 30 times that the shift. This is 3000 times greater sway compared to the industrial revolution. That is a enormous worldwide event. And it’s existential.”
I have known Siebel for any variety of decades. He’s got a very long affiliation with Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution and a profound distrust of government. Nevertheless, in regards to employing A.I. to societal programs, he advised Ellen McGirt and me personally that government regulation will probably be very important. “You understand I am not even a big government man,” he informed us. “That said, if government doesn’t govern, we will be quite sorry.” You may listen to the full podcast: Apple/ / Spotify.
Ultimately, a great deal of opinions, along with also a couple of cancelled contributors, in reaction to my comment yesterday Trump’s direction . I kept tally during the day, also discovered it broke in nearly exactly 50-50 between those who agreed and those who disagreed. My favorite from the latter group was a 1 word answer:”Codswallop.” I needed to look this up.
More information below. And find out Jane Fraser broke banks’s greatest glass ceiling here.
Alan Murray
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