The clueless boss is a favorite meme in many circles, though probably not among bosses. This IBM survey offers some support, finding that 69% of CEOs believe generative AI will offer broad benefits to their organization but just 29% of their supporting executives feel their company has the expertise to make it work. Two-thirds of CEOs are acting without a clear view of how to help their workforce adjust the AI-created disruptions.
Wunderman Thompson reports that 45% of global consumers are interested in shopping after they are dead. Puts a whole new spin on “richest person in the graveyard.” Less surprising but still interesting: 32% of online spending in on mobile devices and 19% of everything ordered online is returned. There’s lots of regional detail here if you want it.
When Adobe announced planed to buy digital design platform Figma, the anti-trust issues were obvious to everyone except maybe Adobe. The U.S. and UK regulators announced investigations almost immediately. Now the European Commission has said it’s opening an investigation as well.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.