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1 month ago | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
The enterprise software maker SAP held its annual Sapphire event in Orlando, Fla. this week, drawing 15,000 attendees over three days to the Orange County Convention Center. There were the usual keynotes, a massive trade show floor, and media-only previews and demos. I also got a chance to sit down with the Global Head of AI for SAP, Dr. Walter Sun.
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1 month ago | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
The OnRamp program at the US military’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got started in 2023 as an effort to lower the barriers for non-traditional technology companies that wanted to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) — but weren’t already suppliers.
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1 month ago | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
Our Report TL;DRs serve up a quick look at recently-published reports worth paying attention to, and sharing with your team. Important note: our editorial team and contributors select these. The firms producing these reports don’t pay to be featured. • • • Chief Transformation Officer Study (PDF version) — Monitor DeloitteApril 24, 2025C-Suite, Boards, Transformation LeadersThis report was compiled from a survey of 200 transformation executives from a range of industries.
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2 months ago | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
A new alliance between carmaker General Motors and chipmaker NVIDIA got announced amidst a tsunami of other news from NVIDIA’s annual AI conference in San Jose, Calif. last month. The partnership has lofty ambitions, especially for GM’s design, engineering, and manufacturing activities. GM is adopting what NVIDIA calls its Omniverse hardware/software suite.
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2 months ago | 
mindtheproduct.com | Curtis Michelson
As Aman Kahn finished his Thriving as an AI PM talk at #mtpcon and walked off the main stage at the Barbican Center in downtown London, I rushed over to my mtp colleague Steffi Crivellaro and asked, “can we do a follow-on article about this?” Thankfully, she said, ‘Yes’. I’m delighted because I think Aman’s message is timely and relevant to many of us and worth a more detailed conversation. In this quick 30-min interview, I hold that deeper conversation.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
If you watched the Super Bowl this month as much for the ads as the game, you likely noticed an uptick in AI spots. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Salesforce and GoDaddy all ran AI-related ads, and the ad industry’s reaction was at least mildly impressed, if not for the cleverness and artistry, at least because none of them were an epic fail. One ad in particular was about AI’s word of the year: agents. Interestingly, it didn’t really talk about agents.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
mindtheproduct.com | Curtis Michelson
This is an interview I conducted with Jakob Knutzen, the co-founder of Butter, a company offering both workshop-focused video conferencing (Butter Video) and its newest offering, a collaborative canvas tool (Butter Scenes). Jakob shares with me the company's origin story, its product-led growth strategy emphasizing organic user acquisition, and the surprising ways users have adopted their tools beyond the initial intended use cases.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
Our Report TL;DRs serve up a quick look at recently-published reports worth paying attention to, and sharing with your team. Important note: our editorial team and contributors select these. The firms producing these reports don’t pay to be featured. • • • Now Decides Next: Generating a New Future (PDF version) — DeloitteJanuary 5th, 2025C-Suite, innovation leaders, HR, and change managersDeloitte surveyed 2,773 leaders from what they called “AI-savvy organizations” between July and September 2024.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
We’ve assembled this list of the top 10 US-based companies by revenue, focusing on how they’re seeking to leverage AI and generative AI in their businesses. These use cases span both internal operational and external customer-facing initiatives. AI “agents” are emerging as a theme — but they aren’t as dominant as you might expect given the hype around that topic. Most commonly mentioned use cases are focused on optimization and efficiency across existing workflows.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
innovationleader.com | Curtis Michelson
In the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), nobody understands it all or is “THE” expert. The scope is too vast, and the pace of development too quick for anyone to stay completely current. That said, there are foundational concepts, major technologies, platforms, and terms that all businesspeople should know a bit about.
