July 24, 2026•7 min read
ArticleThe 5:1 rule: for every euro you spend on AI tools, you need five on your people
Earlier this year McKinsey published its State of Organizations 2026 report, and one line has stayed with me since.
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July 21, 2026•6 min read
ArticleThe burden of proof: can you show your AI works?
Around 80 percent of employees now use AI at work, and only about 40 percent of companies have given them an enterprise solution to use.
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July 14, 2026•7 min read
ArticleThe Invisible Transformation Already Happening Inside Your Organisation
There is a particular kind of meeting that senior leaders are starting to recognise.
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July 7, 2026•5 min read
ArticleWhat the New EU AI Act Vote Actually Changed
The European Parliament amended the AI Act on 16 June and the enforcement clock for high-risk systems slipped by up to sixteen months.
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June 2, 2026•1 min read
ArticleWhy AI agents pass testing and then stall
On June 9th, I'm sitting down with James Corbett, who has spent a decade taking AI into production inside regulated industries.
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May 18, 2026•1 min read
ArticleLive Tomorrow: how RWE is rolling out AI across 20,000 people
I'll be hosting Dr Max Schumm, Digital & AI Transformation at RWE
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May 13, 2026•5 min read
ArticleWhy incumbent AI is a different sport
If your AI programme keeps stalling, the problem is not your team.
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May 7, 2026•7 min read
ArticleThe 7.2x Gap, and What It Actually Measures
What April’s AI reports said when read together.
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April 30, 2026•2 min read
ArticleLessons from one of Europe's largest AI transformations - Live webinar, 19 May
There is a question I hear more than any other from executives running AI initiatives inside large companies: “We are investing.
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March 31, 2026•6 min read
ArticleShould You Build, Buy, or Borrow AI? Three Questions That Cut Through the Noise
How to think about building, buying, or partnering on AI - before someone else decides for you
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March 27, 2026•9 min read
ArticleWrite a Prompt Once. Write a Skill Forever.
Most people working seriously with AI have a folder somewhere.
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March 24, 2026•6 min read
ArticleFrom Individual Skill to Organisational Capability
Part 2 of 2 in the Transformation Stack series
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March 20, 2026•6 min read
ArticleThe Quiet Displacement
What Anthropic’s report on AI and jobs tells us, and what it may be steering us toward instead
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March 17, 2026•6 min read
ArticleThe Three Speeds of AI Transformation
Part 1 of 2 in the Transformation Stack series
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March 10, 2026•17 min read
ArticleFive Phases of AI That Every Business Leader Must Understand
Each phase changed what organisations needed to do, not just what the technology could do. Most leadership teams are one phase behind.
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February 26, 2026•5 min read
ArticleIn the Loop. On the Loop. Out of the Loop.
This month three things caught my attention: the “cyborg workplace” argument, the contrasting Twitter essay warning that nothing done on a screen...
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February 10, 2026•4 min read
ArticleFrom AI Access to AI Adoption
What Deloitte’s 2026 Enterprise AI Report Tells Leaders
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February 3, 2026•6 min read
ArticleFrom AI Skills to Organisational Capability
In many organisations, the conversation around AI capability begins with skills.
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January 27, 2026•4 min read
ArticleTake Control of AI Adoption
AI capabilities are advancing faster than most organisations can absorb.
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January 20, 2026•8 min read
ArticleMy top 3 expectations for AI in 2026
A forward-looking reflection on what we’ll likely notice when the noise fades
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