Topic

Strategy

Where ambition meets constraint: what to build, in what order, against what the organisation can absorb.

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Writing

  1. The AI skills gap is a job-design problemEveryone is hiring for the scarcest skill on the org chart. The role that decides whether a system survives its first year is the one nobody has written a job description for. · 2 min
  2. The AI centre of excellence is a transition stateCentralising capability is the right first move and the wrong steady state. The question worth arguing about is what the CoE is supposed to make itself unnecessary at. · 4 min
  3. Your cloud bill is a design review you keep skippingCost anomalies are almost never pricing problems. They are architecture decisions arriving late, in a format nobody on the engineering team reads. · 4 min
  4. The business case that survives second lineMost AI business cases are built on hours saved and die the moment somebody prices the controls. The number that matters is the one nobody put in the model. · 3 min

Thinking

  1. From Centre to EdgeThe operating-model handover in four moves, and the three places it stalls. Select a stall point to track it.FIG. 03