Of course! KPIs must be fulfilled. Shareholder value doesn't maximise itself! If it doesn't get you arrested, it's 'good practise' in the dog-eat-dog mega multinational melee. So all the 'adjacent' IT industries, like the IT media, swan over the already mass marketed products of Big Tech, gushing over the new Gen AI release of Windows (now w/ 5 copilots! Yay) 🙄 or whatever Big Tech have vomited up now and desperately want to flog to the largely uninformed market. So the question is...
4/n
Where do public service decision makers gain the knowledge and insight they use to make procurement decisions? Few of them are actual IT practitioners. I'm sure most are quite dedicated to their roles & responsibilities though. So they read what they think is relevant. They go to conferences, *all* sponsored by Big Tech. They ask the Big Four. They ask Big Tech affiliate Gartner what's important. In short they develop an entirely seamless, rosy view of the world, with great swag & muffins.
5/n
![𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e](https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/accounts/avatars/000/003/673/original/800cdc55b75dffc2.jpg "𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e")
![This is what a human hand looks like under the microscope
[Image shows someone holding their hand on a bench with a microscope on his hand.]](https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/117/547/242/285/312/667/original/77a72fa6cfa5a212.png)
