Articles: Clear Thinking on AI for Your Business
AI is moving fast, and it’s easy to get lost in the noise. This is where you’ll find straightforward, practical insights for senior leaders who need to understand and act on AI’s real impact on their business.
I skip the hype and jargon. Instead, you’ll find:
- Real-World AI: What AI can actually do for your business today – and what it can’t. No sugar-coating, just honest assessments.
- Smart AI Moves: Clear advice on managing AI governance, handling AI risks, applying AI ethics, and meeting rules like the EU AI Act, without slowing you down.
- Straight Answers on AI: Deep dives into specific AI topics that matter, explaining complex things simply so you can make good decisions.
- My Common-Sense Take: My direct thoughts on AI, based on years of experience. I believe AI is a powerful tool, but it needs to make sense, serve people, and be managed carefully.
My aim here is to give you the understanding you need to make smart choices about AI, guide your company well, and use AI’s power responsibly. Professionals who learn how to use AI well will do better; those who don’t will likely fall behind.
Have a look through the articles. I hope you find ideas here that help with your challenges and spark your strategic thinking.
2026
Issue #64 — The Copyright Fight Is the Labs' Problem
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Issue #63 — The Compliance Guard That Doesn't Read the Rules
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Issue #62 — Anthropic Now Keeps Your Prompts for 30 Days
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Issue #61 — The Higher the Seniority, the Lower the AI Use
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Issue #60 — How Much Will You Spend on AI Next Year?
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Issue #59 — Is AI Development Slipping Out of Our Control?
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Issue #58 — Frontier Model Vendors Are Building Consulting Practices
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Issue #57 — Who Owns the Meter
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Issue #56 — The Clauses You Already Signed
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Issue #55 — Evidence as a Byproduct
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Issue #54 — When Software Starts to Act
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Issue #53 — The Knowledge No One Holds
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Issue #52 — The Dependency You Don't Control
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Issue #51 — Fast-Moving Technology
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Issue #50 — The 'Five Agents Per Employee' KPI Is the Wrong Measure
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Issue #49 — BPMN Is Not Enough
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Issue #48 — Reskilling vs Training
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Issue #47 — We'll Vibe-Code New ERP for You in Three Days!
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Issue #46 — The Sequencing Imperative
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Issue #45 — The Brownfield Trap
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Issue #44 — The Shifting Specification
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Issue #43 — Governance-as-Code
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Issue #42 — Cross-Sector Patterns: What Regulated Industries Teach the Rest
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Issue #41 — The AI Act Is Being Amended. Here's What Actually Changed.
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Issue #40 — Forty Issues Later
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Issue #39 — AI in Public Sector
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Issue #38 — AI in Pharma: Navigating the GxP Minefield
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Issue #37 — AI in Telco: From Network Ops to Customer Intelligence
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Issue #36 — AI governance in Banking
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Issue #35 — The Integration Layer
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Issue #34 — Architecture for Scale
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Issue #33 — Process Engineering for Human-AI Handoffs
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Issue #32 — The AI Gateway Blueprint
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Issue #31: The Business Case Engineering Protocol
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Issue #30: The Production Readiness Checklist
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Issue #29: The ROI Scorecard
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Issue #28 — Shadow Engineering
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Issue #27 — The Speed of Waste
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Issue #26 — The Data Reality
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Issue #25 — The 'Expensive Junior' Trap
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Issue #24 — Shadow AI
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Issue #23 — The Zombie Pilot Audit
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Issue #22 — Simulating Your Business
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Issue #21 — The Rise of Multimodal AI
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#20 — The Leader as System Architect
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#19 The AI Auditor is Coming
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#18 The Trust Premium
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#17 The Governance Gap
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#16 Governance-as-Code in Practice
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#15 The New Front Line
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#14 The True Cost of AI
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#13 API is the New Liability
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#12 Open-Source vs. Proprietary Models
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#11 The Vendor Due Diligence Gauntlet
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#10 The Gardener and the Storm
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#9 Leader's new job description
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#8 The AI-Augmented Workforce
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#7 The Ethical Litmus Test
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#6 Beyond Pilot Purgatory
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#5 AI has the keys
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#4 The Janitor's Closet of AI
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#3 Who are you, and what made you say that?
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#2 AI's Reality Check
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#1 Navigating the AI Maze
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The Pragmatic AI Project Approach
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Augmentation, Not Replacement: A Leader's Guide to the Human-AI Workforce
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