AI is everywhere. And it is a perfect start-up tool. Particularly in helping answer the same fundamental questions start-ups always have: Who is my customer? What problem can I help them solve? How do I make money and build a sustainable, profitable business? “The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI” According
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast. It is true. It is also incomplete. Because something else eats culture. Organisational design. Function follows form. The way an organisation structures reporting lines, decision rights, team boundaries, information flows, incentives and technology governance is not simply an expression of its culture. It is the container that shapes that culture.
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Distributed singularity? Sam Altman says we’re in the singularity. Two years ago, unpacking Kurzweil’s epoch framework, we called this the steep part of
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It should fuel the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” to find out more. Digital transformation can make organisations more fragile The enterprises that survive to 2035 will not necessarily be the most digital, automated or
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Most leadership teams believe their proprietary data will give them an AI advantage. That is comforting. It is also usually wrong. What most organisations call a data asset is a mixture of outdated records, conflicting definitions, duplicated files, undocumented processes and knowledge trapped inside people’s heads. It is less a data moat than a data
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In May 2023, I asked a question that felt like provocation for its own sake: will AI become the new McKinsey? ChatGPT was four months old. Most companies were using it to write emails. The idea that a language model might replace strategic advisory sounded like a stretch. It wasn’t a stretch. It was a
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Decision Debt: The Hidden ERP Liability No Dashboard Tracks Decision debt accumulates when ERP programs defer critical business decisions and replace them with
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. Physical AI just learned to touch, listen, and hide. A robot with skin. A robot with no interface at all.
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I’ve long used a pendulum framework for scanning: push a trend to its extreme, then ask what counter-reaction it produces. Globalisation produces deglobalisation. Efficiency produces burnout. The pendulum never stops — it swings, and organisations that build strategy around one extreme get caught when it reverses. There is more than one Most leaders assume there’s only
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I am a huge fan of Jason Silva. Particularly, his latest post about the “latent space and the new literacy of the AI age” hits a nerve. I need to go back a bit. To reading Dan Simmons´ Hyperion. While having a glass of wine on the beach in Spain. The common denominators are latent
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