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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
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
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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Beyond Simple Office Automation: The Rise of Super Operators
Contrasting the speed of office-based vs physical AI use cases; the future beyond simple chatbot assistants; and the predicted rise of high-agency super…
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Lee Bryant
Destruction, disruption, change and transition strategies
Why transformative change sometimes needs transition, not destruction, and why we should engage with AI risk fears if we are to find the best way…
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Lee Bryant
Wrapping up 2024
We have come so far with AI and yet achieved so little in terms of the organisational change it makes possible. Here's how we made sense of the year AI…
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Lee Bryant
Strawberry (Da)Queries, Machines and Possibilitarianism
Analysis of OpenAI's first o1 series release and why this does not risk de-humanising the enterprise - quite the opposite, in fact...
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Lee Bryant
What is Organisational Agility and What Can Leaders do to Cultivate it?
What is the 'agile organisation' and what can we learn from the successes and failures of major organisations in attempting agile transformations?
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Cerys Hearsey
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Lee Bryant
Asking Better Questions
GenAI capabilities are developing faster than organisations can make sense of them. If the only limit to adoption is our imagination, how can we ask…
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Lee Bryant
From Silos to Synergy: How to Organise for Collaborative Digital Leadership
A collaborative leadership model that can help develop a shared roadmap and capability goals for multi-domain challenges like AI adoption
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Cerys Hearsey
(Don't) Hail the Chief!
How should we organise for a common capability roadmap across the different functions that will invest in and use AI and smart tech in the enterprise?
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Lee Bryant
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