Your Company Is Buying AI. Is It Learning How to Think?
Companies are buying AI faster than they are learning how to invest in it. The important return is not only what an initiative delivers today, but what it makes...
Author: Jonathan
The Leadership Attention Paradox
“The manager’s job is characterized by brevity, variety, and fragmentation.” — Henry Mintzberg, *The Nature of Managerial Work* (1973) At the time, this was an ...
The Long Road to the Threshold
1. Novelty Is Usually a Disguise Most technology ideas arrive in the world disguised as novelty. They are announced as rupture. As invention. As the sudden appe...
Beyond the Codex Moment
In my previous post, I described what I called my “CODEX moment”: the realization that the capabilities of agentic engineering tools have crossed a threshold. F...
Zombie Governance
When Systems Outpace Judgment Modern institutions now make more consequential decisions in a single day than leaders once made in a year. Increasingly, those de...
Five keys to a modern operating model
Ask a dozen consultants what the term “digital transformation” means and you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. The term has become so overused and so lac...
Is there a ‘can’ in your future?
In the economics of computing the most expensive resource is still the network. In scenarios where large data-sets are being processed it is almost always cheap...
The Service Dilemma [eBook]
I’m delighted to make available our new publication “The Services Dilemma” as a free eBook download. The Services Transformation and the algor...
Cloud Computing and Complexity
The business of Information Technology (IT) has a complexity problem. As a domain IT requires deeply specialized skills, the language of IT is arcane and busine...
Why There’s No Future in Cloud Futures
An interesting debate took place at last week’s Cloud2020 gathering regarding the viability of futures markets for cloud computing capacity. I’m fir...