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Enterprise AI Needs Leadership Ambition to Move Beyond the 'Faster Horses' Stage
A widening gap between vendor hype and adoption reality, and why enterprise AI needs to see way beyond the short-term AI bubble to realise its potential
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Lee Bryant
AI Learning & Adoption Goes Further and Faster in Co-Op Mode
How can shared practice, not individual use, help accelerate learning and sustainable adoption of AI?
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Cerys Hearsey
Collaborative Architectures for Agents, People & Machines
Some thoughts and further reading on how to think about creating collaborative architectures for agentic AI in the enterprise
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Lee Bryant
Enterprise Context Engineering as a New Leadership Capability
How can leaders ensure that people, AI agents, and distributed systems all work with a common context and information landscape, without slowing things…
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Cerys Hearsey
The Growing Importance of Context Engineering for Leaders Adopting AI
How business leaders can play an important role in enterprise AI adoption without needing to become technical domain experts
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Lee Bryant
Enterprise AI Adoption Requires Connected Leadership Steering
How leaders working together with a simple Map → Change → Learn loop can turn scattered AI experiments into living, organisation-wide capabilities.
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Cerys Hearsey
Will AI be 'Winner takes it all' or General Purpose Technology?
Considering the diffusion of economic gains from AI, why enterprise AI is more interesting than consumer use cases, and why learning by doing is…
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Lee Bryant
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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
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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The AI Space Race Could Benefit us all, But Technology Adoption Takes Time
New models, an emerging space race, and the challenges of diffusion and adoption when it comes to AI-related enterprise technologies
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Lee Bryant
How can AI Help Accelerate Europe’s Industrial Renaissance?
AI modelling and mapping can potentially create more visibility of the emerging new industrial ecosystem to support better, faster combinatorial…
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Lee Bryant
Exploring a new age of AIOps to increase operational agility
Where should CIOs start when automating and orchestrating an IT Operations Automation Capability?
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Cerys Hearsey
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