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Jun 17 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
1/ AI + CRM: @Salesforce just raised a red flag:

LLMs like GPT-4o are not enterprise-ready for CRM without strict governance.

In tests, models struggled with multi-turn context, hallucinated actions, leaked PII.

CIOs: AI without controls = A data breach waiting to happen. Image
2/ New CRMArena Pro tests by Salesforce found GPT-based assistants fail at basic CRM hygiene:

– Can’t preserve thread state
– Confuse similar customers
– Leak sensitive notes

Want LLMs in customer-related workflows? IT leaders must bring A-game in AI ops, audits, and access.
3/ CIOs, don’t rush GPTs into the heart of your CRM stack.

Salesforce’s own research shows you must layer:

✅ Prompt engineering
✅ Full identity/data controls
✅ Fine-tuning for enterprise tone/policy/safety

Without them, LLMs risk become rogue actors in customer experience.
4/ I’m actually bullish medium term involving AI in customer experience. But IT depts must educate themselves.

The details on CRMArenaPro and the gap between LLMs / enterprise CRM needs in a major new paper by @SFResearch’s @steeve__huang + team:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.18878

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Mar 24
1/ 🧵I was facilitating a 1:1 focus group today with a top tech firm and a very senior IT leader. The IT exec brought up the same issues with most sales pitches they get.

Vendors, listen up:

Here’s the brutal truth — and what will actually land your second meeting with a CIO 👇 Image
2/ 1️⃣ Start with credibility — fast.

✅ Pop up the MQ or other analyst proof you're the real deal
✅ Tip the IT security checklist (ISO 27001, SOC 2, 2FA, where data lives)
✅ Make it obvious you’re enterprise-grade
✅ Cite 1-2 famous clients with impressive stories

Otherwise? CIOs start reading email in 1-2 mins.
3/ 2️⃣ Stop telling CIOs what they already know.

❌ “There’s a gap between strategy and execution”
❌ “Modern CIOs lead digital transformation”
❌ “AI will change your business”

They know. They live it. You’ve lost them before you even start.

Here's what to do instead...
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Jan 27
1/ The intense industry saga around @DeepSeek_AI continues unabated today.

Here's a big-picture take on what we know right now, why it matters.

How has it seemingly shaken up the AI industry overnight as well as international competition in foundation models? 🧵 Image
2/ DeepSeek: The biggest wake-up call in AI in years

- @Meta is supposedly in 'panic mode'
- Stocks of ASML, TSMC, @NVIDIA have made major drops due to market fear
- The apparent lesson: There is no moat for high-end AI

The top players must accelerate to stay ahead. Image
3/ What makes DeepSeek revolutionary?

DeepSeek’s R1 not another AI model. Secret sauce lies in clever + radical optimizations w/ innovative mathematics:

Reasoning over facts: DeepSeek treats reasoning as an input. Allows more dynamic, creative problem-solving.

Rewarding creativity: A unique reward system prioritizes innovative outcomes.

Efficient footprint: Highly distilled to run on low-end HW, breaking cost + access barriers.Image
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Jan 21
1/ After months of painstaking research, I’m thrilled to share a groundbreaking new study on AI and the CEO.

@TheFuturumGroup + @Kearney surveyed 213 top CEOs across 19 industries, paired w/ in-depth interviews, to reveal a data-based picture on how CEOs are leading with AI. Image
2/ This isn’t yet another AI report.

It’s the first proven from CEO experience, actionable playbook for strategic AI implementation.

What’s working, where leaders struggle, and how they’re overcoming challenges. Image
3/ Some findings surprised me:

59% of CEOs directly lead their organization’s AI strategy.

AI is no longer a side project—it’s core to leadership itself. Image
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Dec 3, 2024
AWS re:Invent 2024 SUPER THREAD

Matt Garman, CEO of #AWS, is on stage talking about the early days of AWS and selling early #cloud to banks.

Now discussing building the best buildings blocks for the cloud in the industry.

#reInvent2024

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Now #AWS’s Matt Garman summarizes the rich instance types they make available:

- Offers more compute instances than any other provider, with 850 different instance types across 126 different families
- Supports myriad use cases
- Large storage instances for databases and analytics workloads
- High memory instances for apps with in-memory requirements
- Fast networking instances for HPC and ML workloads
- AWS was the first and only cloud to offer Mac-based instances
- The #Nitro virtualization system allows AWS to differentiate:
- Delivers parallel performance
- Provides unparalleled security and isolation (key for #cybersecurity in cloud today)
- Innovate independently on instance types without redoing the entire virtualization stack

#reInvent2024

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Exploring how its custom-silicon gives #AWS a competitive edge in the #cloud, Matt dives deep into #Graviton 4:

- The most powerful Graviton chip yet launched by AWS
- Graviton 4 delivers:
- 30% more compute power per core
- 3 times the number of vCPUs compared to previous Graviton versions
- Support for larger instance sizes to address scale-up workloads like databases
- Graviton 4 has a significant impact on customer workloads:
- Pinterest was able to reduce their compute footprint by 47% and carbon emissions by 62% by moving to Graviton
- 90% of the top 1000 EC2 customers have started using Graviton processors
- The growth and adoption of Graviton processors within AWS has been dramatic, with Graviton now accounting for as much compute as all of AWS did in 2019 (a $35 billion business at the time).

#reInvent2024

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May 10, 2024
#DIGITALTRANSFORMATION in 2024:

Great chat today with @alightman + @rafehm on a project they are working on.

We discussed the many lessons learned on how enterprises can better organize and execute on their tech transformation goals.

A 🧵of the key insights...

#CIO #CDO

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My first observation was that most orgs still organize around functional efficiency for marketing, sales, operations, and customer care.

This creates silos where the customer is tossed over the wall to each.

Instead, orgs must now structure around the top value streams.

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In this way, #digitaltransformation is leading us to develop three primary experiences, or value streams:

- #Customerexperience
- #Employeeexperirence
- #PartnerExperience (supplier)

For the best DT results, legacy silos of function must be transformed into this model.

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Jan 3, 2023
My 2022 Year in Review and look ahead to 2023…

An unusual year of ups + downs that took my research agenda to unexpected places.

Yet the result was invaluable + ended up taking my work to useful new places.

A longish 🧵 on #cio #cloud #digitaltransformation #FutureOfWork. 1/x
First up is my detailed analysis titled “The #Cloud Reaches an Inflection Point for the #CIO in 2022.” It remains very pertinent reading.

Written as the cloud industry reached an early maturity point, it highlighted a top hot issue: Complexity

constellationr.com/blog-news/clou…

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Then I took a deep dive into #decentralization, perhaps one of the most significant generational revolutions of our era:

What is #Web3 and Why It Matters

dionhinchcliffe.com/2022/01/11/wha…

Regardless of what happens to #crypto, the underlying tech esp. #blockchain, is an inflection.

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