Notes for people who have to decide, not experiment.

On where AI value actually comes from, what separates the organisations getting it from the ones that are not, and what the evidence says when you look properly. Most of these began as LinkedIn posts; the full version is one click away.

Enterprise AI

The frontier firm playbook: five pillars that separate leaders from everyone else

Why do some organisations translate AI into measurable productivity gains while others do not? Five pillars show up consistently across high-performing frontier firms: deep system integration, workflow standardisation and reuse, executive mandate, data readiness and evaluation, and deliberate change management.

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AI Strategy

The State of Enterprise AI: from pilot to core infrastructure

OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI report, read through an analyst’s lens. Three findings matter: enterprise AI has moved from pilot to infrastructure, productivity gains compound with depth of use, and an AI performance chasm is opening between organisations.

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Consulting

Beyond commoditisation: what AI does to the consulting value chain

Most technologies become commoditised, and AI will too. Adoption alone will not be a durable advantage. The opportunity for consulting is to move up the value chain: away from tasks that will be automated, toward guiding clients on AI strategy in their specific sector context.

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AI Enablement

Two days in Frankfurt with ninety partners and senior managers

A week in Frankfurt with ninety senior managers and partners, from as far as Helsinki and Cape Town, on how AI is reshaping strategy and transactions work, and how a firm’s proprietary AI-enabled platform brings its own intellectual property to bear for practitioners and clients.

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