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We Can all be Work Designers in the Composable Enterprise
Composable workflows are important for AI readiness, but they start with a mindset shift and simple practices that anyone can try.
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Cerys Hearsey
Codifying Rulesets in the Explainable Enterprise
How encoding the unspoken rules of how we work could create better guardrails for agentic AI and improve human-AI collaboration in the enterprise
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Lee Bryant
To Protect Human Agency, Codify the Invisible
Codified coordination, forkable practices, and agentic guardrails—how we design AI-ready work that puts people first.
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Cerys Hearsey
Is Enterprise AI Ultimately Less Risky than Consumer AI?
Whilst the risks of consumer AI are fuelling a backlash, the quiet revolution in enterprise AI offers a more promising, human-scale future (if we get it…
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Lee Bryant
The Rise of Symbiotic Learning
How co-learning with AI can help us build more adaptive ways of thinking, and how to get started creating a personal learning companion
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Cerys Hearsey

June 2025

Can Learning Help Overcome the AI Capability-Absorption Gap?
Organisational readiness will take time, but that should not stop us from preparing our people to thrive in an enterprise AI workplace
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Lee Bryant
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Learning in the Age of Agents
Why What, Where, When and How We Learn Needs Reimagining for Intelligent Work
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Cerys Hearsey
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Lee Bryant
Agentic AI Needs Strong Foundations
We risk taking the inevitability of agentic AI for granted; but if we don't focus on the foundations and bring people with us, it might not live up to…
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Lee Bryant
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AI Orchestration and the Middle Management Transition
How can we best deploy the experience and skills of managers whose roles are at risk from AI disintermediation to help create a new, smarter work…
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Cerys Hearsey

May 2025

New Models and Old Challenges
So many powerful new capabilities are emerging, especially in augmented coding; but we must not forget the human transition, risks and adoption…
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Lee Bryant
The Case for AI-Enabled Orchestration as a Strategic Business Capability
Work is increasingly distributed and fast-moving. How can we build a capability that connects systems, agents, and people, while keeping humans in the…
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Cerys Hearsey
Making the Invisible Visible
Using enterprise AI to improve the legibility of the value chain and the visibility of work outputs will enable better, more agile and autonomous…
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Lee Bryant
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