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Strategic, governance, and C-suite content. What boards and senior leaders need to understand to make AI decisions that hold up over time.
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The Hidden Risk in PE Portfolios
The core thesis: most PE portfolios were built for a world of integrated, deterministic software. They are now misaligned with the modular, probabilistic architecture that AI is creating, and the implications for value creation are significant. --- The Foundational Mismatch Most PE portfolio…
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The Comfort of Being Equally Behind
Why the winners of the AI era will not be the organisations that picked the best tools. --- On 31 March, Jack Dorsey and Sequoia's Roelof Botha published an essay, From Hierarchy to Intelligence, arguing that corporate hierarchy is an obsolete information routing system. Their claim is that AI can…
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The Web Is Rebuilding Itself for AI Agents - And Your Organisation Needs to Pay Attention
The web was built for humans clicking links. In Q1 2026, three of the biggest infrastructure companies on the planet - Cloudflare, Shopify, and Google - quietly started rebuilding it for AI agents. Not as an experiment. Not as a beta feature buried in developer documentation. As production…
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When Max Met Aisha
In October 2025, Channel 4 aired a documentary about AI and employment. The presenter, Aisha Gaban, delivered her lines with the slightly stilted cadence you expect from documentary narration. She looked professional. She sounded credible. And at the end of the programme, she revealed something…
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The Board's Dilemma: Navigating 5 Forces Reshaping the Future of Work
Smart, experienced leaders are sitting around polished tables, surrounded by reports that would make a data analyst weep with joy, yet they're more uncertain than I've seen them in years. Why? Because we're navigating something genuinely unprecedented. Five generations working together. Digital…
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Future-Proofing a Legacy Finance Firm with AI
Customer Profile A well-established financial services firm with a 50-year legacy, over 350 employees, and consistently strong margins. Renowned for its trust, expertise, and people-driven workflows, the firm had long been a leader in its space. But as AI-enabled competitors emerged, pressure…