Tokenomics - the SHI worldview takes in what enterprises can learn from ITAM and FinOps
Every new technology wave introduces new revenue models for vendors, which create new complexities for enterprise end users. At one level of abstraction, tokenomics is emerging as the word of choice for characterizing the new complexities of financial engineering and innovation in new AI opportunities and revenue models.
Although many of the specifics are novel and unique to the characteristics of AI, and in particular large language models, the overall patterns are similar to those the industry experienced with novel licensing models for software and hardware and later cloud services. Those waves produced disciplines of their own: IT asset management (ITAM) for software licensing, and financial operations (FinOps) for cloud.
Shane Cronin, Head of FinOps & ITAM Services at SHI, has had a front-row seat to previous waves of financial innovations over several decades. Now, as uncertainty emerges around AI tokenomics, he is leading SHI’s engagement with the open source...
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