Digital strategy, acceleration & innovation; the future, technology culture, globalization, connected & smart environments. All views here are my own.
Every idea needs a Medium
(And 11 More Lessons from successful AI projects) In all the frothiness and the constant news cycle about AI technologies, we sometimes miss a key point about enterprise adoption of AI. Technology is...
By now you would have picked up that the London Marathon saw some amazing firsts. Both the first and second place mens finishers, Sebastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha broke the 2 hour barrier, something...
2024 was about which model. 2025 was about which use case.
Everyone knows technology is accelerating. The acceleration itself isn't the interesting part.
Every major report on AI and the workforce reaches the same conclusion. Yesterday, I mentioned skills upgrading as one of the 4 pillars of AI transformation, but by many accounts, the skills gap is...
Homo sapiens - literally "wise human" or "discerning human", is the name Carl Linnaeus, the 18th century Swedish botanist gave our species. "Sapien" comes from the Latin verb sapere, which means to...
Tinker or Transform? Today I was asked an interesting question by a client - should we use AI to fundamentally rethink our business, or should we look for incremental changes. I think the mood in the...
You may have seen the blinding speed at which companies like Claude, Google, and OpenAI are shipping products now, with new versions and tools landing every week. And yet we haven’t quite seen this...
I don’t think most of us quite know how best to exploit living with a savant. Yet, that’s exactly the situation we find ourselves in today.
The future of governance going to need to be embedded, continuous, and operationally connected. It is closer to air traffic control than to a compliance committee.
From Augmenting to Redesigning I spoke earlier in the week about the wondrous future outlined by Jensen Huang, and about what it means to take humans out a process. But what are some of the key...
The AutoResearch Story: This picture below might be the most famous diagram on the internet right now, and definitely in the AI world. This is the story of how on the night of March 7, Karpathy...
When Jim Hughes, our colleague from Nvidia suggested might have to watch the at least twice to make sense of it, I smiled politely. It turns out he was right! Before the keynote, I got to speak with...
Accountability: IBM Memo and More There is a famous 1979 IBM training memo stating, “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision..
From the 1970s to the 1990s, there was a class of system that tried to mimic the decision making process of the most proficient people in your business. These 'Expert Systems' would painstakingly...
Today, while talking to a partner company, a bolt of lightning flashed through my mind. We are in the middle of a great mindshift! Today, when faced with a task, employees are no longer trying to...
The other day, I got into a call with a client who wanted us to meet another of his colleagues to have a discussion about AI and Innovation. But he was very belligerent about why the two of us on the...
How fast can your business change? And how many new features can you adopt every fortnight? Let’s have a look at 10 Key events of the past 2 weeks: Microsoft enters into conscious decoupling with...
Douglas Adams created the famous parable of the computer that could answer humanity's deepest and most meaningful question - ‘What is the meaning of life?’ and it came up with the answer of 42. But...