Ancient Grains & Quality Info

Ancient Grains & Quality Info

Anthea Stratigos Mar 29, 2024 3 min read

The NY Times reports 8 incidents on United of late and right about the same time its Premier members receive an email about safety from…

Ancient Grains & Quality Info

Ancient Grains & Quality Info

Anthea Stratigos Mar 29, 2024 3 min read

The NY Times reports 8 incidents on United of late and right about the same time its Premier members receive an email about safety from…

No Question Too Big or Too Small

No Question Too Big or Too Small

Anthea Stratigos Mar 22, 2024 5 min read

While the state of California decides that financial literacy is as important as cursive the rest of our world is figuring out win/loss and…

Tight Economies & Tough Tactics

Tight Economies & Tough Tactics

Anthea Stratigos Mar 15, 2024 4 min read

Late September, with economic clouds and headwinds in full tilt I wrote about the buying and selling climate for data and information…

Product Management Crossroads

Product Management Crossroads

Anthea Stratigos Mar 8, 2024 4 min read

Product Management Crossroads We have been analyzing and benchmarking the product management function in our industry for the last 20 plus years as the industry became software (tech) enabled and modern PM functions became the norm. We developed a methodology…

Outsell Leadership Community — Members Only

Outsell Leadership Community — Members Only

Anthea Stratigos Mar 1, 2024 3 min read

We have used Stern Strategy Group to source speakers from time to time and a week or so ago I received the wordle above with a note:

A Fake AI World

A Fake AI World

Anthea Stratigos Feb 23, 2024 3 min read

OpenAI introduced Sora last week and in and outside of Outsell the world was atwitter. My colleagues speculated about loss of CGI animation…

Boeing — Fiasco

Boeing — Fiasco

Anthea Stratigos Feb 16, 2024 3 min read

I read AP, Apple News (an aggregation of sources) the WSJ and have always believed in a balanced news diet. I try to avoid CNN/NYT/Fox as…

When Bad Things Happen to Good Workers

When Bad Things Happen to Good Workers

Anthea Stratigos Feb 9, 2024 2 min read

Out of sight out of mind. Measuring activities and not results. Counting hours vs. outcomes Be in the office or laid off. Hmmmmmm.

When the Algos are Wrong

When the Algos are Wrong

Anthea Stratigos Feb 2, 2024 2 min read

It’s easy to second guess a football game especially when on the losing side. Sunday’s play-off game began with an email from a colleague…

New Year, New Regulations

New Year, New Regulations

Anthea Stratigos Jan 26, 2024 3 min read

Now there’s more regulation to save us from ourselves. Seems like the new year always brings a spate of them. Keeps the legal & regulatory…

The PE Dilemma

The PE Dilemma

Anthea Stratigos Jan 19, 2024 4 min read

Late last year and early this, several of us were talking about the business climate in 2023. And we were perplexed by the feeling so…

Tech, Data & Information Services: Six Big Topics for 2024

Tech, Data & Information Services: Six Big Topics for 2024

Anthea Stratigos Jan 12, 2024 16 min read

As we head into 2024, here at Outsell we’re planning for big, exciting things. We’re working on several new product and service…

Honoring Skip Miller and the Sales Function for Which He Stood

Honoring Skip Miller and the Sales Function for Which He Stood

Anthea Stratigos Jan 5, 2024 6 min read

Wow. I came to work this week ready to blog about so many topics. OpenAI and news licensing and lawsuits? Data licensing drivers and to-dos…

A Year in Review

A Year in Review

Anthea Stratigos Dec 21, 2023 2 min read

’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse.

AI Everywhere All at Once: Questions We’re Answering.

AI Everywhere All at Once: Questions We’re Answering.

Anthea Stratigos Dec 15, 2023 3 min read

Ever since news broke late last year, we’ve been fielding questions about generative AI, starting with clients asking us for a list of…

Software as a Disservice (SaaD)

Software as a Disservice (SaaD)

Anthea Stratigos Dec 8, 2023 3 min read

Well, it’s been another week in Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix or some other head spinning vortex no one in their right mind can fathom…

Start-ups & Downs

Start-ups & Downs

Anthea Stratigos Dec 1, 2023 3 min read

I love working with start-ups and CEOs with amazing ideas. The brightest minds and bright eyes committed to changing the world. Full of…

Silicon Valley Fever

Silicon Valley Fever

Anthea Stratigos Nov 23, 2023 4 min read

Lord of the Flies played out in swift motion this past week for all the world to see. Silicon Valley, and the rest of the world agape…

Who’s with Bridgette Hyacinth?

Who’s with Bridgette Hyacinth?

Anthea Stratigos Nov 20, 2023 2 min read

I’ve always said life doesn’t happen in 9 to 5 boxes. Neither should work. My colleague sent this to me on LinkedIn the other day and it’s…

Who’s with Bridgette Hyacinth?

Who’s with Bridgette Hyacinth?

Anthea Stratigos Nov 17, 2023 2 min read

I’ve always said life doesn’t happen in 9 to 5 boxes. Neither should work. My colleague sent this to me on LinkedIn the other day and it’s…

Computer Says No

Computer Says No

Anthea Stratigos Nov 10, 2023 4 min read

We bank(ed) with First Republic and so now the Chase team is all over us with notices of account transfers, mortgage transfers, and the…

Too Much Of A Good Thing is Rarely A Good Thing

Too Much Of A Good Thing is Rarely A Good Thing

Anthea Stratigos Nov 3, 2023 5 min read

The juxtaposition of these two headlines back-to-back on the scroll was full of irony. Another article the next day well-articulated what’s…

Eggshells

Eggshells

Anthea Stratigos Oct 27, 2023 3 min read

When is too much information simply too much. I’ve written in the past about a balanced news diet; I’ve also written about going on a news…

Cursive

Cursive

Anthea Stratigos Oct 20, 2023 2 min read

While pondering the ugliness of two wars, man’s inhumanity to man, and wondering if there is any peaceful end to this mess, I can’t help…