Axing managers to save costs and replacing them with AI may seem like a good short-term solution. But long-term implications could be serious - as Gartner predicts that by the end of 2026, one in five employers will have used AI to eradicate more than half of their middle manager tier bit.ly/4dUv13w

AI valuation debates are missing something. Value doesn't live inside the silos — it lives in crossing between them. George Lawton on boundary problems, Biosphere-2, and why NVIDIA might outlast the LLM mania - take a look: bit.ly/4vfgeau

@jon.diginomica.com rethinking his AI views is rarer than a frictionless enterprise — but here we are. This week: agentic friction, MCP built to ship not govern, and CEO avatars (no, we're not sure why either). Whiffs included. bit.ly/4uenCCj

Pets at Home's Head of AI Transformation Simon Ellis has a clear philosophy: use AI to elevate colleagues, not replace them - so they can focus on what matters most: the pets (including good dogs, all of them) and the people who love them. George Lawton has the story - bit.ly/43akqfK

Salesforce acquires Contentful. Data (Informatica) + AI agents (Agentforce) + Content (Contentful) = Headless 360 complete. Stuart has the details on Agentforce finally getting the dynamic content layer it needed - bit.ly/4fEuPYL

Atlassian’s 2026 State of Teams report is out, after surveying 12,000 knowledge workers and 170 Fortune 1000 executives. Dr. Molly Sands details how AI adoption is increasing speed at an individual level but creating a fragmentation problem at team level: bit.ly/4wUosXj

Agentic AI – an infinite regress of cost/benefit challenges? With research suggesting that many enterprises are, in effect, letting AI agents make management decisions, @thechrismiddleton.bsky.social asks if this is wise, when the senior responsible owner is still you: bit.ly/3Rz5m8V

What I’d say to me back then – @jentic.bsky.social ’s Dorothy Creaven on the power of warm intros, interview prep, and having some fun. Madeline Bennett hears of lessons learned from Google’s European technical recruiter and Rent The Runway’s first international employee: bit.ly/4uUSqsZ

AI and the new value equation: Cost reduction from AI is only part of the story, argue Salesforce's Vala Afshar, Henry King, and Dr David Bray: bit.ly/4dDiilo

At #AlteryxInspire, they gave journalists laptops, opened the product, and allowed time to investigate and answer a data challenge. Alyx MacQueen's session and interview with the CPO offered important takeaways about what enterprise data leaders should be looking for, and rarely get: bit.ly/4nDoFdj

MIT's Media Lab's emerging research shows that AI led efficiencies produce merely short-term gains at the expense of long-term sanity. @zoho.com 's Raju Vegesna on how artificial intelligence is impacting human brains: bit.ly/4dm7mtD #AI #FutureOfWork

What I’d say to me back then: Clari + Salesloft’s Laurie Ehrbar sat down with Madeline Bennett to reflect on life lessons and what she thinks is key to getting more women in tech: bit.ly/3PNGIko #WomenInTech

Legacy supply chain tools won't survive the next tariff shock. With the US-China deal expiring in November, automotive companies are racing to modernize. BlueYonder's Salim Shaikh on why multi-tier visibility and network platforms are now baseline: bit.ly/3PrAgiW #ERP #supplychainmanagement

After Anthropic's decision to withhold its Mythos model from the public, Derek du Preez explains why Everpure's CTO Patrick Smith says the implications for how enterprises approach patching, resilience, and recovery is increasingly front of mind for enterprises: bit.ly/4tOyUwx

ICON 2026 - Knauf's 80% touchless order management goal - and the Blue Yonder foundation being built to reach it. Dr Martin Brown outlined the company's digital supply chain transformation during the keynote. Derek du Preez spoke with him afterwards :bit.ly/4dAWc30

The UK Government finally responded to the AI and copyright report. Here's why @thechrismiddleton.bsky.social suggests we shouldn't hold our breath for any positive action: bit.ly/4tGL9eK

Yesterday, UiPath has announced that it's opening up its orchestration layer to any coding agent. @alyx.diginomica.com talks us through what this could mean, why Claude Code and Codex go first, and why the real argument is about which layer of the stack is actually worth owning: bit.ly/4uOaioR

Yesterday, Celonis launched the Celonis Context Model and announced an agreement to acquire AI decision intelligence vendor Ikigai Labs. Get Derek du Preez's analysis of the latest offering and why this represents a fundamental rethink of what Celonis is for: bit.ly/4dl0lYG

At #AtlassianTeam26 Shivi Verma, Senior Manager, Cloud Apps Engineering at Docusign explained the company’s approach to AI, and how it implemented @atlassian.bsky.social ’s AI tool, Rovo. Get Sarah Aryanpur's take on their journey: bit.ly/4uDe6ZI

At @atlassian.bsky.social #Team26 the opening keynote argued there’s no AI rulebook yet but low‑risk experiments rooted in organizational and brand context are the fastest route from AI dabbling to genuinely AI‑native ways of working. Sarah Aryanpur was there for us to find out why: bit.ly/4u5Taeg

While headcount cuts having been hitting the headlines for months now, they are masking deeper and more long-lasting changes in tech industry approaches to hiring and employment. Cath Everett investigates: bit.ly/4eABJxz

Network Rail Group CIO Simon Goodman is preparing for major technology integration as the UK's Railways Bill brings infrastructure and train operators together under a single entity, Great British Railways. Mark Chillingworth sat down with him to discuss the challenges: bit.ly/4ts6XL0

Is it a case of "RIP Online storefronts" asks Stuart Lauchlan? Why the rumors of death are greatly exaggerated, according to Shopify's Harvey Finkelstein: bit.ly/4dcDEG8

At IFS Connect, Phil Wainewright was impressed with how Trivium Packaging is benefiting from rolling out workforce communications platform Poka. Here's how it's connecting the shopfloor workforce, improving quality, saving time and creating happier and prouder employees: bit.ly/4w1oLz0

Next-generation customer engagement in the agentic era? Twilio announced new conversation capabilities at its Signal Conference, designed to support consistent, intelligent, personalized conversations in the agentic age. @bmzinck.bsky.social weighs up the latest offerings: bit.ly/4tiyM8s

In the lead up to #BoomiWorld 2026, @jon.diginomica.com caught up with one of his favorite AI sparring partners, Boomi CEO Steve Lucas. Soon, they were heading into the AI infrastructure versus software debate, and Jon could ask his burning questions about the context layer: bit.ly/4whgffl

Derek du Preez was at #Knowledge in Las Vegas to hear ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott explain why governance is the real barrier to enterprise AI adoption, and why its own platform is uniquely positioned to deliver outcomes enterprises need to trust autonomous AI at scale: bit.ly/4dw7gzu

The goal of AI, of course, is to create business value. Yet more and more organizations are reporting that the value for AI is coming in short of their expectations. So, asks Stuart Lauchlan, who's to blame? bit.ly/4whx2Pz

At @atlassian.bsky.social Team '26 - @cisco.com 's Jason Andrews explained what "transform, don't migrate" actually looks like. Alyx MacQueen was in Anaheim for us - get their take on what the VP had to do inside the room to make it stick – and what he is now asking of Rovo. bit.ly/49kdW1g

"Intelligence without execution is just expensive advice. Execution without governance is a catastrophe." @servicenow.bsky.social 's Bhavin Shah on escaping the 'portal paradox'. Read the full article here - bit.ly/4eoBm9d #AgenticAI #FutureOfWork #AIGovernance

At #IFSConnect, Phil Wainewright was impressed with how Trivium Packaging is benefiting from rolling out workforce communications platform Poka. Here's how it's connecting the shopfloor workforce, improving quality, saving time and creating happier and prouder employees: bit.ly/4w1oLz0

At #SageFuture 2026, Sage leaders vowed to deliver AI to SMBs without the black boxes - only glass AI boxes allowed. But are customers ready to trust AI in finance and operational workflows? Time to find out - here's what @jon.diginomica.com dug up on the ground: bit.ly/49pPnjo

In this week's round-up from @jon.diginomica.com - brands attempt to re-invent with data and AI - will it fly? MCP has another round of security questions - but can AI help security defense more than offense? Event season rolls on. And we bid farewell to Ask Jeeves: bit.ly/4teXNkT

With others tied up in court, the AI moral high ground is there for the taking it seems. Step forward Meta's Mark Zuckerberg! No, really, says Stuart Lauchlan in our Monday Morning Moan - we said moral high ground... bit.ly/4tSHkEa

It's been one of those weeks where the range of what we cover at diginomica reminds us why we still find this job interesting. AI governance, billion-dollar SaaS milestones, social media and child safety, and a piece about F1 data that couldn't have landed on a better weekend. Not a bad week!

Simon Paris, CEO of Unit4, has been listening to professional services firms, universities, public sector organizations and nonprofits. Here's what he's hearing and what he believes about the 'SaaSpocalypse', the impact AI will have on productivity, and its role as our 'sixth brain'. bit.ly/4t3vnKD

Apps and AI - the two 'A's that are going to lead a customer-centric revolution for e-commerce retailer ASOS... perhaps, argues Stuart Lauchlan, as this one-time UK e-commerce champion aims to regain prowess: bit.ly/4w0RKTO

This week Google made its enterprise orchestration play, what we're learning about AI vendor lock-in, AI security and the context layer. As event season hits peak frenzy, @jon.diginomica.com shares his hits and misses from a week of enterprise news and analysis: bit.ly/4t0W9TM

@servicenow.bsky.social’s latest earnings have beaten Q1 2026 expectations and the vendor has raised its guidance. Derek du Preez spoke with Amit Zavery to understand the meaning behind the headline figures - and to dive deeper into pricing: bit.ly/4ctfGaw

Why do financial services AI ambitions live or die on data consolidation? @alyx.diginomica.com sat down with AWS’s Lisa Lewison at AWS Summit London, to find out, and to hear what NatWest, Allianz, LSEG, and Nationwide are doing about it: bit.ly/4u4tcrc

As the Social Media responsibility and regulation debates rage on, BeReal’s CEO offers its take on a very modern social crisis. Katy Ring finds out why 40 million users rank it as number one among Social Media platforms for strong purchase consideration and strong ad recall: bit.ly/4coFhBu

Enterprise service AI is caught in a rough cycle — and most organizations are looking in the wrong place for the fix. @atlassian.bsky.social customer Domino's Pizza found the right one — a 75% reduction in risk and hundreds of thousands in annual savings. bit.ly/4u4NaCa

What happens when agents take over the work of finding, evaluating, and purchasing products on our behalf? Ian Thomas's recent conversation with the co-CEOs of marketing automation company Klaviyo suggests that much of what we know as ‘shopping’ may simply disappear: bit.ly/4vLomAL

What made UK managed cloud provider Black Box Hosting choose EverPure’s all-flash storage to underpin a sovereign cloud push? And what's giving UK buyers a compelling reason to move away from the hyperscalers? Derek du Preez has the story: bit.ly/4u0wjjJ

Geopolitical tension. Shifting trade routes. Extreme weather. Capacity swings. Industrial executives say volatility is becoming normal. And their AI strategies need to catch up. Read @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social 's Matt Kempson's take bit.ly/3OF3jz5 #AI #IndustrialAI #ERP

A year on since @workday.com launched its Agent System of Record, Phil Wainewright wanted to understand more about managing AI agents. He sat down with Dean Arnold, VP of AI Platform to discuss why managing agents isn't the same as managing either people or traditional IT: bit.ly/4mN49GD

At #OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, @alyx.diginomica.com sat down with platform engineer Hans Kristian Flaatten and Aiven Product Director Dmitry Kan to hear how Norway's welfare system swapped out the underlying search engine while the lights stayed on: bit.ly/41NRqtC

Marketing Intelligence is having a moment with AI. Marketing leaders think they're doing well, but a recent survey shows there’s still a lot that can be done to improve paid media performance. @bmzinck.bsky.social explains how AI can help: bit.ly/41HY2tz

41% of all code written globally is now AI-generated. So is vibe coding a democratising superpower, an industry slayer - or a SaaS vendor opportunity? Which vendors will decide? And what are 3 principles of good vibe? Read @zoho.com’s Raju Vegesna's take bit.ly/42q09Cl #VibeCoding #SaaS #ERP #b2b

At #SUSECon 26 – the open-source giant is ushering in a resilient future with NVIDIA, Oracle, and more. @thechrismiddleton.bsky.social is in Prague to bring us the latest: bit.ly/4toNz2p