Author: Saikat Chatterjee
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Rethinking Negotiation: Beyond Win-Win Strategies – A Tech Services Deal
During my EMBA tenure at NYU the Art of negotiation was one topic of intense preaching but subjective practice. The most impressive book for me was Herb Cohen’s – You Can Negotiate Anything. This book practically gave examples of practicing negotiation extensively in every walks of life and through very…
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Navigating Neo-AI: $$ Reduction or $$ Shifting for Enterprise Technology & Operations
Neo-AI, the new age of AI, is powered by different architectural patterns. These include Gen-AI, LLM, and SLM powered operations. It also encompasses custom developed Agentic-AI decisioning nodes, orchestration, and workflows. Alternatively, you can leverage Agentic-capabilities with out of the box product suites. Examples are SAP Joule, Salesforce Einstein, ServiceNow…
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AI-Led SDLC: Doing it right to drive ROI > ROIC.
The race for “Everything as AI-led” has since beginning of 2025, made AI-led SDLC adoption an intense need. Leveraging Gen AI and Agentic platforms and frameworks for the majority of erstwhile human-led SDLC phases has become a key solution architecture mandate. Technology build, or platform implementation, programs are now expected…
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Managing Tariff: Impacts on Technology Investments in 2025
The years 2023-2024 kept markets busy in geopolitical conflicts. Predominantly leading supply chain disruptions and rising inflation rates. It drove fear of recession while muting expenditures and investments across industries, markets, and economies. The upside was the strong fundamentals of industries. The hype cycle of AI-led growth was also notable.…
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AI PCs: Revolutionizing Workplace Efficiency
How much of AI are we going to need to call it a productivity plateau? I continue my previous article on “Optimal-mix-ai-gen-ai-co-pilots-agentic-human” mix. Here comes another transformative piece. I have been tracking it closely around AI PC’s. This came into perspective towards end of Q3-2024. The push towards Windows 11…
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Minimal Strategies for Maximum Value in Cybersecurity Adoption
I was working with a start-up CISO, recently on “whats” and “hows” of CyberSecurity adoption. Full disclosure, the whole adoption canvas looked so scary with his lens. It became important for me to explain in steps the minimalist approach to adopt to help the company propel growth and at least…
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Optimal mix of AI vs. Gen-AI vs. Co-pilots vs. Agentic AI vs. Human: CIO’s guide for value-added IT-led operations?
At a recent CIO round-table, I got a chance to discuss infrastructure operations and automation. We debated the adoption of automation and AI. Traditional AI / ML has been dominating the tale of business efficiencies thus far. With the recent influx of Gen-AI, Copilots, and now Agentic AI, there was…
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AI and HPC: On-Prem Deployment Strategies for CIOs
Continuation to my earlier note on “Efficient computing – Strategy for CIOs”, where I spoke about deployment architecture, chip interconnect technologies, accelerated infrastructure options, data centre utilization observability, dynamically managing AI/HPC workloads, leveraging AI agent based infrastructure, and DCIM specialists role – here is my note double clicking on the…
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Resource Efficient Computing Strategy (overall and) for AI/Gen-AI workloads !!
With reference to my earlier post (https://chats01.com/2025/01/29/gen-ai-ai-led-innovation-valuation-strategy/) where I touched upon the possible high level strategies to optimize LLM models – where the argument was primarily on FLOPS per query (assumed to consume 100 tokens for an acceptable tolerance of 90 %), where typically an SLM (GPT ~2) FLOPS range…
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Gen-AI, AI-led innovation – valuation strategy ?
What is the strategy for running valuation (DCF/WACC, comparable or contingent) of an AI-led, Gen-AI led transformation to make it compelling for IT and business embracement. More I work with my CxO partners, industry leaders, start-ups and academia to propel adoption, I ponder !! The 4 proponents of adoption Pervasive…
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