The Power of Tools in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio Introduction In the evolving landscape of enterprise AI, one concept is quietly transforming how we build intelligent systems: tools. Whether you’re working with Azure AI Foundry or Copilot Studio, understanding tools—and how agents use them—is foundational to unlocking real business value. What is a […]
Read more "Understanding “Tools” in Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry"Translytical Task Flows are a new Power BI feature (currently in public preview as of May 2025) that combine transactional operations with analytical insights, directly within your reports In essence, “translytical” merges transactional and analytical – allowing end-users to not only visualize data but also act on it in real time without leaving the dashboard I’ve set out to describe: what translytical task flows are, why they […]
Read more "Translytical Task Flows: Integrating Analytics and Action in Power BI"McKinsey’s list of best practices and cross-reference to large vs. smaller businesses adopting them. These jive with what I’m seeing as well, but what’s missing? If an executive asked me, “what is the difference between success and failure”? The answer I’d give them is, “alignment between strategic growth plan and technology’s possibilities with a willingness […]
Read more "McKinsey and AI Best Practices"I’m presenting at the AI Momentum Summit on March 20th in Milwaukee. I’m presenting on “Building Your AI Use Case”, but if that isn’t interesting to you, there are many other hands-on topics. AI Momentum Summit 2025 – Milwaukee Tickets, Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite Join me! Nathan Lasnoski
Read more "AI Momentum Summit – March 20th!"When the Generative AI craze first hit we were amazed by the conversational capability of a new AI agent “Chat GPT”, but it represented a generalistic and ungrounded tool that quickly had limitations because of the bounds of its knowledge. We then discovered ways via RAG to connect large language models to grounded data that […]
Read more "Create a culture of AI agent delegation and building"We are in the third age of data. The first was full of preparing data with legacy data warehouses that struggled to provide value beyond surfacing reports about the past. The second was preoccupied with loading data into data lakes. The third needs to be built on outcomes that we are trying to achieve. Not […]
Read more "Create value for your customers with data and the rest will fall behind it"A few weeks ago Satya Nadella was on the BG2 podcast and discussed a wide variety of topics, from leadership, to becoming the CEO at Microsoft, to AI, to Growth Mindset. I recommend listening to the podcast in its entirety as it really is worth the investment. With all that said, the headline from the […]
Read more "What did Satya Nadella mean by “SaaS is Dead”?"As we start the new year many of us have taken to adopting new habits with the intent of being better versions of ourselves. These might be working out more, reading more books, focusing on family time, or spiritual growth. As we look the AI revolution in the eye, the most distinctive quality we’re seeing […]
Read more "Five AI Habits to Build in Your Company"This is my last newsletter of the year and with it I’m going to hit you with five themes that every tech leader is needing to consider in 2025. This past year has been a bit of a whirlwind to say the least, but many companies struggling but others doing really well. The momentum from […]
Read more "Five Things to Think About in 2025"[This may be obvious… but this isn’t about any particular candidate’s win, loss, success, or failure… this is about the (necessary) role of data in defining company direction] I was watching the election coverage last night and like many was drawn in by Steve Kornacki’s handle on the specifics of every county and city necessary […]
Read more "When being Steve Kornacki isn’t enough"
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