Simon Leyland

Best companies have a CEO and CFO who work in unison but very clear that the CFO works for and on behalf of the CEO. The worst have an over bearing CFO.

If you want to answer why populism is on the rise Robert nails it in one stat.

This is be the first and last time I agree with Speaker Johnson. He calls out founding principles and ethics, this is undeniable. He does not talk about the state.

You are more than welcome.

Is Enterprise Social over? 🤔

I was chatting with a comms leader who launched a hashtag for a public campaign. It wasn’t used by anyone outside their team—not even on their internal (Viva Engage) platform.

Not a single mention.

Why? Let’s dive in. 🧵

Enterprise AI: Hype or reality? 🤔

My latest research shows 62% of CEOs see AI as a powerful force, while 38% remain cautious.

Explore the nuances of CEO sentiment in my latest report.

Request report: info.futurumgroup.com/ceos-ai-2025

#AI #CEO #technology #FuturumCEOInsights

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Costa Rica: Civil War Podcast Episode · The Rest Is History · 20/11/2022 · 30m

Rest is History is brilliant. Deals with some very serious events but then also gives you the episodes starring Dr Valverde. The Pompei Episodes also awesome.

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How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

"Tthe DeepSeek model raises questions about the unintended consequences of the American government’s trade restrictions. The controls have forced researchers in China to get creative with a wide range of tools that are freely available on the internet."
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Enterprise Tech Predictions for 2025 As 2025 begins, I find that the global technology landscape is on the cusp of entering a major new era. It’s one almost totally defined by the arrival of pervasive AI, combined with the urgen…

My enterprise tech predictions for 2025

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This year is really shaping up to be one of the more interesting -- and challenging -- in a while.

A roundup of the likely AI, cloud, and CIO trends.

This announcement makes it very easy for me to delete the app from my phone.

Accenture sees enterprises prioritizing large-scale transformations “Our clients are focused on reinvention,” CEO Julie Sweet said Thursday, during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.

Enterprises are rapidly shifting IT investments to areas that will help them scale AI without ballooning budgets.

I'm seeing growth in the global market for IT in 2025, as big tech + IT load up on GPUs.

Much data work being done to prep as well.

#CIO

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Now, this is too accurate 👍

Hire…more…staff

Deduct £50 a day from all C level managers pay until staffing levels can cope with standard timetables.

🙋‍♂️

Rico Lewis just isn’t good enough physically off the ball.

Good morning with good news: The world is on track to install nearly 600 GW of solar in 2024.

To put that solar tsunami in context, the world had installed a total of 760 GW of solar by 2020.

Global solar deployment will be up 29% in 2024 over 2023. Wow!
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#energysky

EFL considering introduction of VAR despite objection from fans Low-cost alternative called Football Video Support – which would give teams two unsuccessful challenges per match – could be preferred for Leagues One and Two

Just leave it alone

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#IT must be a learning organization, if it hopes to cope with the oncoming freight train of constant change and mass tech adoption.

Retrospectives, post-partums/mortems, NPS scoring, and more are key to get in touch with ground truth.

#CIOChat #CIO

Spurs United absolutely fine without var

3 seconds later ffs

I’ve never been so invested in a West Ham clean sheet

Donkey Derby 💩

Chaos at Euston again and across the railways this weekend.

Sorting this mess out needs to be a top-level priority for the Government in 2025 - starting on day one in the New Year.

People are truly fed up with it and it is damaging the economy.

Release 0.7 · simonw/llm-gemini New Gemini 2.0 Flash model: llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp 'prompt goes here'. #28

Gemini 2.0 is out, and there's a ton of interesting stuff about it. From my testing it looks like Gemini 2.0 Flash may be the best currently available multi-modal model - I upgraded my LLM plugin to support that here: github.com/simonw/llm-g...

Gemini 2.0 announcement: blog.google/technology/g...

Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

"Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows."

The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts As Greek borrowing costs fall to French levels, the bloc’s ‘periphery’ shows the value of steady reform

Excellent by @chrisgiles.bsky.social. How the tables have turned

"The difficult & quiet success of the economic reforms since tends to pass people by. But it is now undoubted in Europe’s “periphery” and time for France & Germany to practice the medicine they so enjoyed prescribing a decade ago."

We've seen a lot of bad AI use cases too - but we are cautiously optimistic our new approach could help teachers & students.

Without doubt the worst City team of Pep era. Too lightweight in midfield, can’t defend corners, Nunes Savhino don’t contribute enough. Walker error prone. De Bruyne genius can’t make up for it all.

The main Christmas tree of Kyiv is about to kick-start the holiday season tomorrow.

The third Christmas of the full-scale war when we have rather humble trees and no celebrations in the historical part of Kyiv.