I read something this week that made a light go off — not because of what it said, but because of what it confirmed. Jiaona Zhang, Chief Product Officer at Laurel and a Stanford product management lecturer, described what she’s calling the hottest new role in AI: the AI Ops job. Her framing: “I think…
The numbers being reported right now don’t add up, and they’re worth sitting with for a minute. Global enterprise spending on AI is projected to hit $2.52 trillion in 2026 — a 44% year-over-year increase. Eighty-nine percent of CIOs plan to grow their AI budgets. Average corporate AI allocations have doubled, now running roughly 1.7%…
I’ve heard this story before. The last time a “this changes everything” technology rolled through finance and operations, I was the one in the room translating the slide deck into the production environment. The internet, RPA, the cloud, and now AI all share the same dynamic: the technology is real, the timeline is wrong, and…