Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising industries by automating content creation, enhancing decision-making, and sparking innovation. But before jumping in, it’s essential to pause and do the groundwork. In today’s fast-moving, hype-driven tech landscape, that can feel a bit old-school, but understanding your organisation’s readiness isn’t just prudent, it’s foundational. A GenAI Maturity and Readiness Assessment is a crucial step to ensure that the excitement of innovation is backed by the stability of preparation.
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The Death of SaaS as We Know It? Will AI Agents Eat Software?
Remember when we used to install software from CDs? Then SaaS arrived and changed everything. Next, we’ll witness an even bigger revolution: AI agents transforming how business SaaS applications work. While Salesforce, Workday, and countless other platforms transformed how we work, their application layer could be replaced by intelligent agents that bypass interfaces altogether to work directly with you and your data. The applications will change dramatically, but your business data remains the constant foundation of value. Here’s why this seismic shift will reshape every industry and why you need to prepare.
There is value in that unstructured data.
For quite some time I have been concerned about the unrealised value in unstructured data – the myriad of Word documents and PDF’s that contain everything from organisational policies to processes and reports (we aren’t talking about video, images and audio in this article). This increasing amount of unstructured data and the ability to absorb it is one of the things that increases the time that new hires take to become effective or means that a policy (if not encapsulated within a system) does not get adhered to.