Archive - Shift*Academy

The Soft Edge of AI Transformation

Why the organisations winning with AI are getting good at precisely what traditional management is worst at

May 19 • Cerys Hearsey

CHROs as Systems Architects not Programme Owners

Programmes, people and performance - why AI is exposing what HR was never designed to do

May 12 • 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

May 5 • Cerys Hearsey

April 2026

Embrace the Human to Overcome the AI Capability Absorption Gap

Why we need more focus on learning, thinking and knowledge engineering if we are to make progress with AI-enabled organisational transformation

Apr 28 • Lee Bryant

How can Enterprises Create their own Agentic AI Evaluation Capabilities?

Why agentic systems are outpacing our ability to judge them and how we can evaluate their work effectively rather than just sampling outputs

Apr 21 • Cerys Hearsey

Agents at the Ready? Yes and No...

Mythos, memex and management - how the various layers of agentic AI development are moving at different speeds and why we need to bring them together

Apr 14 • Lee Bryant

The Autonomous Project Manager

What happens when coordination becomes a system, not a role

Apr 7 • Cerys Hearsey

March 2026

Agents of Progress or Agents of Chaos?

The delta between personal and enterprise agentic AI development is worrying, but perhaps combining the two offers a way to help overcome their…

Mar 31 • Lee Bryant

Same Models, Different Worlds

How outcomes, skills and context combine to create compounding organisational intelligence

Mar 24 • Cerys Hearsey

Agents on the Night Shift

Self-improving agents, Socratic dialogue and temporal stress: things to think about on the way towards agentic engineering and machines that make…

Mar 17 • Lee Bryant

Programmable Governance & Probabilistic Humans

How probabilistic humans and collective intelligence could reshape AI governance

Mar 10 • Cerys Hearsey

Humans in the Loop or in the Soup?

How can we create governance systems that are quick and detailed enough for the AI era, but also maintain human-in-the-loop safeguards and…

Mar 3 • Lee Bryant

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