A former colleague posts about a science-fiction novel. I decide to reread it. While I was drinking wine on the beach, a cybrid appears: a synthetic organism carrying the personality of the poet John Keats. I ask ChatGPT about Keats. A few minutes later, I am reading about negative capability, Keats’s idea that wisdom comes […]
Why wine on the beach is a strategy tool Read More »
It started with a post from my former colleague at DCU, Theo Lynn, Dean of DCU Business School. Theo collects science fiction books. His favourite is Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a book I read ages ago. So I decided to read it again. It is excellent. Cybrid The book reaches a point where a cybrid
Hyperion, cybrids, Keats and mindcandy Read More »
We keep on forgetting. Data is powerful. AI is powerful. Automation is powerful. But the last mile is still human. The last mile is the conversation with the customer who does not fit the segment. The employee whose situation is not covered by policy. The supplier who is under pressure but afraid to say it.
The last mile is human Read More »
You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Send this to the most curious person in your organisation — or start the conversation. The future: slow down or go faster A few years ago, I wrote a book about books
Digital transformation #mindcandy: The Treebeard problem Read More »
Most leaders think of their business model as an economic structure — how value gets created, captured, and delivered. It is that. But it is also something they rarely say out loud: a moral structure. And the future is about to make that much harder to ignore. Morality is the next competitive advantage Responsibility used
Build your moral moat Read More »
You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Forward this to your leadership team — or start the conversation. Nature is an innovation database Jumping spiders have inspired an ultra-efficient 3D camera. Armadillos have inspired protective technology for soft machines.
#Mindcandy: biomimicry Read More »
You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. State owned AI AI sovereignty is not just about models, chips, cloud and data. It is also about narrative control. Because AI absolutism is now everywhere. AI will save us. AI will
Digital transformation #mindcandy: AI sovereignty as strategic control Read More »
Every technology follows an abstraction curve In January 2023, ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam. Like everyone else, I got distracted by the headline. The obvious implications were for education, white-collar work and professional knowledge. If a machine could pass an MBA exam, what did that say about business schools, consultants, analysts, managers and knowledge
You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Shadow AI Risks: Closing Enterprise Blindspots and Breach Costs Your people are already using AI without permission. Personal accounts. Browser plug-ins. Coding assistants. Unapproved models. Agents nobody in IT can see. Not
Digital transformation #MindCandy: unsanctioned models Read More »
The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The
The CEO as connector-in-chief Read More »