Copilot is not an AI strategy. Nor is an AGI strategy.

Copilot is not an AI strategy, but nor is an AGI strategy. Boards need the structural redesign of how the organisation operates around AI today.
AI note-takers: she was wrong about the law, and so was I

Is using an AI note-taker without telling people illegal? Why AI transcription breaks old assumptions, and a simple standard: always disclose.
Risk and control professionals should be shaping AI, not cleaning up after it

Risk and control professionals in financial services are the people best equipped to lead AI adoption. They need to be architects, not the clean-up crew.
AI as a contextual layer around the boardroom

Drafting a white paper during a webinar showed AI synthesising in real time. What that could mean for board meetings, investment reviews and leaders.
From AI paralysis to AI chaos

Mid-market financial services firms have moved from banning AI to so much AI activity that nobody knows what is running. It is a leadership problem.
Stop experimenting, start scaling? Dangerously incomplete advice

Stop experimenting, start scaling assumes AI is stable. It isn’t. Why a permanent, funded and governed experimentation capability matters.
The problem is not that AI does not work. It is that the ruler is wrong.

Boards keep quoting MIT’s finding that 95 per cent of enterprise AI projects show no return. Why that reading is wrong, and what it may cost to wait.
The AI job apocalypse isn’t arriving

Lloyds, IBM and McKinsey are not cutting their way to AI value. Why the better question is what AI lets your organisation do that it could not before.
How far along are financial services sectors on the journey to AI maturity?

How far along are financial services sectors on the journey to AI maturity? This quadrant map offers a high-level view of where key FS sub-sectors stand—based on: 📊 AI adoption (current deployment and capability) 📈 Business impact potential (ability to drive strategic or operational value) While the chart reflects sector-wide averages, the variation at the […]
This time its different

💡 In 30 years of business and digital transformation, I’ve seen many business revolutions—the dot-com era, ERP, CRM, shared services, data science, and automation. But this time, something is different. AI isn’t just another technology shift—it’s a fundamental business shift. For the first time ever, business owners who never cared about tech are asking me: […]