Schrödinger’s Optimism: AI and Productivity Signals

Schrödinger’s Optimism Reading news stories about the US stock market dip at the end of last week, you might think that serious economic and technology analysts are uncertain about the impact of AI on business and productivity. Selling or buying stocks is quite a...

Claude Code, but for Management

In the past couple of weeks, more developers have declared that Claude Code, the leading AI model for software development, is now good enough that they no longer need to code manually. This is quite something, and if Claude Code can live up to this promise, this will...

Re-Focusing Leadership on AI Readiness & Enablement

Why Focus on AI-Enabled Organisational Change Rather Than Just Technology? As we look ahead to another year of rapid technology-driven change in business and society, it is a good moment to separate the wood from the trees and focus on medium-term goals. Generative AI...

Can AI Help Reverse the Oversimplification of Management?

As we look forward to a new year, it is worth zooming out momentarily from the frenetic race between AI models to focus on some of the enablers, blockers and wider changes that will determine whether organisations are able to use this technology effectively. We now...

AI Agents & Skills, Plus What Games Can Teach us About Adoption

Enterprise AI Adoption Signs of Life There are some promising signals emerging around enterprise AI adoption and its impact on companies who are using it. Last month’s Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into The Enterprise report by Wharton Human-AI Research...