GPTLDR Monday Brief - 008

GPTLDR Monday Brief #008

Week of June 16th, 2025

GM, 

This is your Monday Brief.

In today’s brief:

• 🏁 Strategy & AI Use Cases – From A16Z’s latest 2025 report to BDO and IBM’s internal AI agent platforms, and strategy leaders are aligning budgets, models, and governance to redefine how decisions get made.

• 🖥️ Technology – Cloudera and others highlighting what it means to be truly “AI-ready” in 2025.

• 👥 Talent & Teams – AI recruiting, L&D, and productivity acceleration are reshaping org design.

• ⚙️ Operations & CX – Leaders are redesigning journeys, restructuring ops, and proving profitability across every customer touchpoint.

🏁 Strategy & Use Cases

• A16Z: 16 changes to AI in the enterprise 2025 edition (Link)

• IBM: AI Agents as essential drivers of enterprise innovation (Link)

• The future of Enterprise Strategy (Link)

• BDO: AI innovation and internal generative AI platform (Link)

• Enterprise AI, budget maturation and multi-model deployment (Link)

• What CIOs and Strategy Officers need to know (Link)

🖥️ Technology

• Cloudera: Tipping point for autonomous enterprise transformation (Link)

• Video: AI ready data - What CIOs need to know in 2025 (Link)

• Transforming SaaS with AI - Insights for CIOs and CTOs (Link)

• Alipay Pushes AI strategy with AI platform for Fintechs (Link)

• AI Agents: The defining workforce trend of 2025 (Link)

• Digital transformation and GenAI burnout: CIO strategies (Link)

⚙️ Operations & CX

• Cisco: AI to handle 68% customer service and support interactions (Link)

• IBM: Leaders say agents are essential, not just experimental (Link)

• How AI is transforming businesses in 2025 (Link)

• AI in the customer journey (Link)

• AI’s operational impacts, from layoffs to profits (Link)

• AI business model transformation (Link)

• How AI personalization is changing the customer experience (Link)

👥 Talent & Teams

• Automate candidate screening, personalized learning, and more (Link)

• PwC: AI linked to 4x increase in productivity growth (Link)

• The definitive guide to AI recruiting in 2025 (Link)

• McKinsey: AI in the workforce report (Link)

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