Perspective 009
The Handoffs Are Where Transformation Goes to Die
Transformation slows when work crosses organisational boundaries, context is lost and nobody has clear authority to decide.
Perspectives
Essays on technology leadership, organisational judgement and consequential decisions.
Clear thinking for leaders making consequential technology decisions.
Perspective 008
Your Technology Strategy Is Probably Just a List of Projects
Technology strategy is a set of choices and trade-offs that determines which work deserves to exist, not simply a collection of projects or a roadmap.
Perspective 007
Your AI Pilot Is Probably a Comfort Blanket
There is a particular kind of sentence that appears in almost every executive conversation about AI: “We have more than twenty use cases underway.”
Perspective 006
Transformation Is Not a Programme.
Transformation has become one of those words that organisations use so often that it has almost stopped meaning anything.
Perspective 005
Everyone Wants Innovation. Nobody Wants Fewer Decisions.
Why organisations can be extremely busy while remaining remarkably slow.
Perspective 004
The Dashboard Is Green. The Organisation Isn’t.
There is an uncomfortable moment that most senior executives eventually experience.
Perspective 003
The Architecture Is Simply Keeping Score
Every system tells the story of the decisions an organisation made, postponed or avoided.
Perspective 002
The Most Expensive Technology Decision Is the One You Don’t Make
Delay often disguises itself as diligence. While organisations wait for certainty, legacy costs compound, competitors move and opportunity quietly disappears.
Perspective 001
Stop Asking Your CTO for an AI Strategy
Why artificial intelligence is an operating model challenge before it becomes a technology challenge.