AI for Leaders: Strategy, Agents and Transformation
AI strategy for leaders who have to answer for it: where artificial intelligence actually pays and who has actually done this, what AI agents are and are not, the AI readiness assessment that ends in a ranked plan, which workloads go into production first, AI governance a board can run, and how to choose an AI consulting firm. Each article ends in a plan for the next board meeting.
AI for leaders who answer for it, by email: agents, readiness, governance and the workloads that pay, each ending in a plan.
What Is an AI Agent? A Plain-English Guide for Business
What is an AI agent? How agents work, what they can control, how they differ from chatbots and agentic AI, and how to try one safely, in plain English.
Read the article →How to Choose an AI Consulting Firm: Seven Tests
How to choose an AI consulting firm: what the work covers, what it costs, seven tests you can run in one call, the red flags, and when to skip hiring one.
AI Agents for Business: Uses, Costs and a 30-Day Plan
AI agents for business: what they can take off your team, what they cost to build and run, how to test one safely, and a 30-day plan for the first.
AI Readiness Assessment: A Checklist That Ends in a Plan
An AI readiness assessment should end in a ranked plan, not a maturity score. The checklist, the five questions per workload, and what a good one delivers.
AI Productivity Gains: Who Is in the Number?
A real AI productivity gain can still be too narrow to justify a wider rollout. This article gives the questions that show what the number covers.
Approve the AI Agent Workflow and Its Controls Together
Approve an AI agent workflow and its controls together. Multiply its error rate by volume, then ask whether review can keep up and which errors escape.
AI Task Inventory: How Much Mapping Does the Decision Need?
A full AI task inventory looks like due diligence, but you don't need to catalog every job first. Fund detailed mapping where it can change a decision.
The AI Answer Your Board Actually Wants
Five board questions on AI, the answer that fails and the one that holds, and how a CEO gets two workloads into production before the next meeting.
Wall Street Is Asking the Wrong Question About AI
Two of Wall Street's smartest shops disagree about AI. Both are missing the operator's question: what adopting it actually takes inside a company.
Win the AI Game: Your Practical Guide to Mastering Gen AI Now
Three skills that separate the people who thrive with generative AI from those who merely survive, with prompts you can copy today. From an operator.
The Human-AI Synergy: Redefining Process Excellence in the Digital Age
Human-AI collaboration in core operations, not chatbots: frontline teams using AI to improve the work. Mercedes-Benz, Mahindra, Merck. From an operator.
AI Transformation Is a People Problem, Not a Tech One
AI transformation is a people, process and technology change, in that order. Why failed cloud migrations repeat with AI, from an operator who has run both.
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