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Sometimes when we look at things from a different vantage point we see things which we don't see from other vantage points. Platform The essence of a platform is this : A platform is an enabling foundation that others can build on. A platform is a shared foundation of rules and resources that allows independent actors to build, connect, and create value on top of that platform.  The notion of a platform exists for computer systems, for economic systems, and for institutional systems. Larry Keeley is a director of Deloitte Consulting LLP and president and co-founder of its innovation practice, Doblin . He is a strategist who has worked over three decades to develop more effective innovation methods. In a Business Week article, " The Greatest Innovations of All Time ", Larry Keeley points out that most of the greatest inventions of all time were "platforms."  He defines a platform as: broad capabilities that have the potential to cut across industries, markets, an...

There is no universal definition of agentic AI currently, but this blogpost summarizes what I have been able to piece together.  Generative AI automates the creation of text, images, videos, and other output by "chatting" with an LLM using human language. Agentic AI is different.  In agentic AI , software agents act, pursue goals,  make decisions similar to how a human does, and does not need to be supervised constantly by a human. In addition to agentic AI agents acting and making decisions; agentic AI agents can provide value by enabling humans to make better decisions.  An agentic AI agent might make better decisions than a human might make (i.e. higher quality) or an agentic AI agent might make similar decision to what a human would make but provide the decision with a dramatic reduction in cost and/or effort (i.e. lower cost). Plus agentic AI agents bring something else to the table: they can work 24 hours a day. An agentic AI agent is an AI system that can per...

PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Anthropic have announced a partnership which effectively significantly disrupts how the office of the CFO will work going forward, Anthropic and PwC Expand Alliance, Driving Impact Across Client Work and the Firm . The partnership accelerates a shift from “accountants doing tasks” to “accountants supervising AI agents that perform tasks inside governed workflows.”   This is already happening inside PWC’s own finance operations and in client deployments. Let the refactoring begin! Per the article, PwC and Claude are selling governance, not just agent speed , the value of the PWC and Claude combination is auditability , risk controls , and regulated workflow design;  and not simply faster agent output. According to Digital Applied ; 3 of the Big 4 now run on Anthropic' s Claude: PWC, Deloitte, and KPMG.  EY is using Microsoft. Anthropic’s foundation models and agentic tools are fully proprietary.  These include Claude , Claude Code , and...