"Will we treat AI agents like employees?" Puh-leeze. We barely treat employees as employees. If and when agents work, they'll instantly become automation.

Pet peeve: prerecorded webcasts that pretend to be live, and then double-down by pretending to take live questions. It's not hard folks—why lie to your customers and prospects?!

#Analytics! "The writing was on the wall—if only they could decipher it."

I'm generally a curious person, and lots of ideas pop into my head, and it's been a lifelong frustration that I couldn't really talk through them with anyone. l love that ChatGPT is an excellent discussion partner, as long as you push to get opposing views. I feel smarter now!

Monday morning is like?... (demo video from new Luma AI Ray 2)

I bought my daughter some nice-quality watercolors for her birthday. I thought I’d take the old ones for a spin—it’s been a while since I attempted a watercolor urban sketch.

Seems like a good time to re-up this sustainability cartoon of mine... It makes me so furious when people say we "can't afford" climate mitigation. Now we have to pay for all the damage AND the mitigation at the same time...

I swear I've seen the same "look! the system knows what is going on and helps me proactively optimize my business" demo every year for the last 30+ years...

I’m slightly surprised to find I’m looking forward to the coming year. I think limiting news and social media recently has helped!

And the holidays begin! Having fun at the Grand Palais ice rink, Europe’s biggest, apparently. 🙂

Importance of trustworthy carbon accounting ❗️ Regs: New regulations demand rigorous reporting 📊 Internal: Carbon accounting drives operational efficiency and decarbonisation 🖥️ Tech: AI & integrated systems enhance data accuracy ✋ Trust: Reliable data builds investor & customer trust bit.ly/3VGQxQQ

New research on return-to-work policies led by the University of Pittsburgh: "Taken together, our findings suggest that firms lose their best talent after RTO mandates and face significant difficulties replacing them" www.itpro.com/business/bus...

I'm a proud European. But this is painful -- a comparison of big US vs EU companies created in the last 50 years (SAP is slightly older). open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

We’re moving from the idea that “AI will change everything tomorrow” to “It will change everything eventually, but only if we do it right.” #ai timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12...

Xmas in France? 😂

Stack ranking is where you define a % of people that have to be designed as low performers. It turns out to be a great way to drive dysfunctional behavior, as people undermine each other to make sure that they’re not the lowest on the list, or avoid joining high-performance teams.

Time to work on my personal development goals for next year!

Even though I'm a presenter, I don't really get the point of presentations any more. Isn't it easier and faster to get that via a document? I just caught up with three video sessions I'd missed, and thanks to the transcripts I skipped the boring parts & got what I needed in a fraction of the time...

Why AI is The Secret Weapon for Change Management! #BigIdeas2025 timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12...

Percentage of people who say they trust climate scientists by country

"Provide unbearable levels of sophistication" by Anthropic Claude and @emollick.bsky.social . Insisting that this isn't creative, because it's the result of an algorithm, seems like a losing battle to me. (And yes the 7th arrondissement of Paris is unbearably sophisticated 😀 ) lnkd.in/eHhD6k3W

I'm an innovation evangelist 😀...

My writeup of Harrods' data and analytics journey, and lessons learned, from UKISUG Connect 2024: timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12... #sap #sapbw4hana #sapanalyticscloud #analytics

Saul Steinberg Christmas Card for the Museum of Modern Art 1949

Out of all the cartoons I’ve created, my favorites are always the most cynical ones… is there any aspect of technology transformation that leaders get more wrong than this? #changemanagement #cartoon

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

In 1916, cartoonist Rube Goldberg nailed it. Destructive jerks get space in our faces just because somebody thinks they have money. It's the ultimate punchline of the DFT years: They thought he had money.

My instagram feed is doing a pretty good job of targeted Xmas ads! #analytics

In times of turmoil, France has a strong tradition of revolutionary innovation: Introducing Smart Execution 2.0! [The power of AI for some things is honestly mind-blowing—the image and marketing blurb from ChatGPT is just *perfect*] timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12... #humor #parody #billionaires

Am I *really* the only person that saw Pantone's color of the year for 2025 ("Mocha Mousse"), and immediately thought it captured a different aspect of next year's prospects?!

Small Beats Big! If you’re using AI to solve a specific business need, as part of a business process, and you have the right data grounding framework (if you don’t, then there’s no point in going further!), then a smaller, faster, cheaper model will likely be a better fit. #ai #sapbtp

Love this graphic! 🥲 From today's Economist: www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

#Analytics Torture the data until you get results!

Key Lessons and Practical Steps from the SAP Connect 2024 Keynote timoelliott.com/blog/2024/12...

Morning run along Birmingham’s beautiful canals #ukisugconnect2024

Some Sunday sport: climbing to new heights with #UKISUGConnect24 ! #DepotClimbingBirmingham

This is why many employees don't admit to using #AI in the workplace: they don't think they'll like the answer to this question!

I'm looking forward to moderating SAP BTP AI Partner Forum in Paris tomorrow, en Franglais! More details and agenda here: events.sap.com/fr/sapbtppar... What's going to happen when projects leaders and AI agents start disagreeing about who's leading the project?! 😂 #sapbtp #ai

Working on my presentations for #UKISUGConnect2024 next week. I get the special honor (sorry, "honour"—can't forget my roots) of presenting the "hangover keynote" on Tuesday morning ("SUGFest on the slopes" is on Monday night 😜). I hope to see you there! #ukisug #ai #sap #sapbtp

Food for thought: Musk is now 119 billion dollars wealthier than he was a year ago. That's >13 million dollars an hour, every hour for a whole year, 170x the median yearly wage in the US.

Suffering from some Monday morning Weltschmerz ("a deep, melancholic feeling of disillusionment or sorrow caused by the perceived inadequacy of the world to fulfill one's desires or expectations"), I asked ChatGPT to illustrate "ignorance is bliss". Now I just need to find a good book!

@kellblog.bsky.social's top tips for successful startup strategy -- as always, an interesting read. (I always knew he'd end up being a professor, but of course he managed to do it in a most-optimal way and get well-paid for it 😀) kellblog.com/2024/11/24/f...

The future is… telling AI what to do, or being told what to do by AI. More of my #AI cartoons, some of them even mildly amusing, I’m told, here: timoelliott.com/blog/cartoon...

I asked ChatGPT's reasoning model to compare Tesla's fatality rates vs the average and estimate the excess death toll in the US (maybe because they trusted Tesla's self-driving too much?—marketing can kill you!). The answer was 38 people. Calculations here: chatgpt.com/share/67404e... #ai

Sustainability: the darkness at the end of the tunnel as climate targets "deader than a doornail" 😥 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #sustainability

It's snowing in Paris. It doesn't quite look like this 😀 (see the hidden message?)

SAP BTP AI Chocolate? Sweet! 😀 lnkd.in/eiwjMFWQ #sapbtp #ai

Here's the problem with existing IT systems that "work fine". When you suddenly need to find new ways of working, you can't! What's the ROI of being able to avoid the next steamroller in your industry? Just because it's hard to calculate doesn't mean the value isn't real. #risewithSAP