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Re-Focusing Leadership on AI Readiness & Enablement
Why Focus on AI-Enabled Organisational Change Rather Than Just Technology? As we look ahead to another year of rapid technology-driven change in business and society, it is a good moment to separate the wood from the trees and focus on medium-term goals. Generative AI...
Can AI Help Reverse the Oversimplification of Management?
As we look forward to a new year, it is worth zooming out momentarily from the frenetic race between AI models to focus on some of the enablers, blockers and wider changes that will determine whether organisations are able to use this technology effectively. We now...
Context Plumbing, Intent Sensing and an AI Reverse Uno on Social Media Feeds?
The Enterprise Strikes Back Fears of the AI investment bubble potentially crashing the US stock market have abated slightly, despite AI revenues not yet looking like they will be able to repay the vast sums being invested for some considerable time. But OpenAI is...
Metamorphoses: “Of Bodies Chang’d to Various Forms, I Sing”
In the programmable organisation, leaders need to think less like bureaucrats and more like architects and coders to provide the context and instructions needed to operate smart systems. Or perhaps poets? Poetry and coding are both forms of language that act as...
AI Agents & Skills, Plus What Games Can Teach us About Adoption
Enterprise AI Adoption Signs of Life There are some promising signals emerging around enterprise AI adoption and its impact on companies who are using it. Last month’s Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into The Enterprise report by Wharton Human-AI Research...
Enterprise AI Needs Leadership Ambition to Move Beyond the ‘Faster Horses’ Stage
Adoption vs Adaptation Constellation Research held their annual Connected Enterprise event last week, and unsurprisingly, enterprise AI was very much top of mind for many of the CIOs and analysts in attendance. But as Jon Reed reported for Diginomica, there are signs...
AI Round-up: Both Destroyer and Maker of Worlds?
Large, small, tiny & nano model developments After the recent release of GPT-5-Codex, Anthropic picked up the AI-enhanced coding baton at the end of September with the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5. Since then, results seem positive for both models, which means we...
Doing the Work: Why Learning is Key to Agentic AI Success & Avoiding Workslop
Agentic AI is starting to demonstrate real capabilities and promise. In the consumer space, OpenAI seems to be moving towards specific agentic apps as a way to popularise and monetise its underlying models, as Nathan Lambert covers today. But in the enterprise,...
Enterprise AI is a Social Technology, Not the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Magical Realism Humans appear to use some very primitive sorting algorithms when presented with new discoveries, such as is it a God? … and … could this magic kill us all? In debates around AI, this tendency is creating increasingly polarised viewpoints and judgements...
Collaborative Architectures for Agents, People & Machines
We are working on some innovative learning projects to help leaders understand what agentic AI could mean for their roles and their organisations, and to help with readiness for adoption; so I have been reading about overcoming barriers and blockers relating to...
The Growing Importance of Context Engineering for Leaders Adopting AI
We have been thinking a lot recently about how to help business leaders understand, direct and deploy AI in their organisations without needing to become technical domain experts. Traditional approaches to learning, change and technology adoption increasingly feel...
Will AI be ‘Winner takes it all’ or General Purpose Technology?
In a week where more than one leading LLM seems to be creaking at the seams, suffering capacity issues or even going backwards in terms of output utility, it is worth re-stating why we think it is worth focusing on enterprise AI over consumer AI, and why we think it...