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You need more engineers
If your team is big enough to have well-defined departments, but you don’t have a few engineers scattered throughout these teams, you’re probably under investing in AI deployment. If you’re building an AI-enabled product, this should be especially embarrassing. You should hire some more engineers.
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Is Australia destined to become a training ground for world-class founders and engineers, only to see them move to the US as their careers take off? This is not our destiny, but we need smarter, industry-friendly policy to build an alternative path, where startups start, thrive, and therefore stay in Australia. Let’s be the beneficiary of brain drain, not the victim.
Your software product today is a tool, and it might already be possible for you or a competitor to build an AI-first product that does the work for your customers without any ongoing effort on their part. If not, it’ll probably be possible soon. Either way, a level of disruption that was not possible a few years ago is now possible in almost every software category.
If you are the CEO or product leader currently stuck in a failing all-in-one strategy: pivot. The good thing about having a broad product is that you should have plenty of insights into what areas have the most opportunity for disruption and innovation. Find an area to double down, and a pathway towards deprecating some of the bloat. You’ll create a much more successful product that way.