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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
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
Operational Intelligence in Shared Agent Networks
How can enterprises build reusable operational intelligence to support shared agents without recreating the failures of centralisation?
 • Cerys Hearsey
Don't Outsource Agentic Capability Design
Why operational leaders are an under-used design resource in enterprise AI
 • Lee Bryant
How AI Can Make Organisational Capabilities More Navigable
Why AI may finally make organisational capabilities easier to access.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Agents are Easy; the Agentic Enterprise is Not
Could personal agents with minimal data integration provide a learning path towards more fully-functional agentic AI? And do we need frontier models for…
 • Lee Bryant
The Soft Edge of AI Transformation
Why the organisations winning with AI are getting good at precisely what traditional management is worst at
 • Cerys Hearsey
CHROs as Systems Architects not Programme Owners
Programmes, people and performance - why AI is exposing what HR was never designed to do
 • Lee Bryant
The Missing Middle of AI Adoption
A practical technique for upgrading the coordination layer where AI actually creates value at the team level
 • Cerys Hearsey
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