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Re-Focusing Leadership on AI Readiness & Enablement
If Enterprise AI's prize is smarter organisations, then we need leadership functions to engage deeply with AI readiness and steering, rather than just…
 • Lee Bryant
A Frontier Model Slow-down is Fine, Regardless of the Reasoning
But let’s not allow the obsession with AGI to distract from the real practical applications that can benefit us today with sub-frontier models
 • Lee Bryant
How Can Management Keep Up With the Explosion of the Digital Workforce?
Why abundant machine capacity gives us an opportunity to make management more human that should not be missed
 • Cerys Hearsey
Who Watches the Agents? Some Lessons from “The Incident”
A roundup of interesting takes on the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident, plus what we can learn from it about making better use of human agency and…
 • Lee Bryant
From Citizen Developers to Citizen Operators
What happens when AI democratises not just software development, but the redesign of work itself?
 • Cerys Hearsey
Should Enterprises Worry About an AI Bubble?
A review of the arguments around over-valued AI firms and what this might mean for enterprise AI based on lessons from previous stock market bubbles
 • Lee Bryant
Agentic AI Challenges Workforce Planning; but it Could also Re-invent it
A new way to think about workforce planning as expertise moves between people and AI agents.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agentic AI, Harness Engineering and Organisational Architecture
Harness engineering matters, but the organisational architecture that sits above agents, models, and harnesses remains the most important source of…
 • Lee Bryant
The Emerging Need for AI Operationalisation
Rather than one-off pilots and deployments, organisations need to develop their AI transformation system as a repeatable capability
 • Cerys Hearsey
Open Models, Technology Diffusion & the Shift from Renting to Owning AI
Kimi K3 shows open models can compete with the best, and might provide a better foundation for enterprises as they shift from renting to owning their AI…
 • Lee Bryant
Designing for Bounded Autonomy
A new leadership design challenge for organisations when rethinking how authority flows.
 • Cerys Hearsey
The Token Apocalypse & Agentic Ecosystem Design
How can simple agents and small models can create a more reliable form of agentic intelligence than continued reliance on frontier models for everything
 • Lee Bryant
Designing a Capability Interface
How discoverability may become the next layer of organisational design.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Context, Codification & Cognitive Capabilities
Links and musings on the challenge of building continuous learning engines for agentic AI in the enterprise
 • Lee Bryant
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