AI World Building & The Value of Boring BizOps

The roaring AI train didn’t slow down at the end of the year as many of us humans needed to; and as 2025 gets underway, major players are still throwing coal into the furnace: OpenAI has been heavily hinting that they think they are moving beyond AGI (but what does...

Will We See the First Programmable Organisations In 2025?

This long-form piece is an example of the content we share in the premium edition, which we are making available to all subscribers – HNY!   What Lies Ahead for Enterprise AI? 2024 was an extraordinary year for ‘AI’ – from the rapid improvement of...

Wrapping up 2024

What a year it has been for those of us interested in the future of work and smart organisations! We have seen incredible developments in AI tools and LLMs, culminating in the preview release of OpenAI’s new o3 reasoning model last week. The tech is developing faster...

Organisational Evolution & the Power of Competitive Ecosystems

5 perspectives on how to harness the power of evolution within competitive environments to improve our organisations.  Kevin Kelly is a kind of techno-elder, and I often enjoy his musings, such as this interview with Noah Smith that references ‘What Technology Wants’,...

Let’s (Not) Make Bots In Our Own Image

Approximation & Interpolation It is impossible to ignore the wave of excitement, hype and alarm that the launch of ChatGPT – and its recent adoption by Microsoft as an enhancement to its Bing search engine – has created in the past couple of weeks....