Thinking
Writing on the judgement that carries hard work through, across innovation, ventures and AI.
The unowned gap
Sound strategy and competent delivery, and the programme still fails, in the gap between them that no one owns. The intent drifts as it crosses the handover from the people who set it to the people who must deliver it, and closing that gap comes down to one person held to the outcome.
Appointing for the hard part
When a programme that matters starts to slip, the instinct is to send in a deeper expert, and it is usually the wrong call. The knowledge to fix it is already in the room. What the programme is missing is someone who can lead the people who hold it.
Owning the outcome
On the senior judgement that carries consequential work through to a result.
Making Innovation Work
On why enterprise innovation programmes fail, and the discipline that makes them work.
Venture building
On building new things that survive contact with a real market.
On AI and what it needs to know
Four pieces on why AI assistants keep falling short on business-specific work, and what the fix actually looks like.
The business of AI
On the economics and practice of enterprise AI, beyond the autonomy story.