AI is reshaping business models and value creation across all industries. Forward-thinking leaders are considering how their business models will evolve and the legion new opportunities for enhanced value creation and capture. We are very early in discovering the structures that work best, and how to configure across multiple dimensions, including internal value creation based ..read more

This week I gave the keynote for the leadership strategy session of a U.S. tertiary institution with over 120,000 students, on re-envisaging the future of higher education. As part of my session I shared this framework on unbundling and rebundling higher education. I explain and expand below the image. Higher education can now be unbundled ..read more

For superior Humans + AI creative outcomes we need to focus on process. LLMs are most effectively applied at well-defined points within broader processes, using precise prompts and context for highly specific tasks such as content generation, ideation, structure mapping, analysis, adaptation, synthesis, evaluation. The first step is to pull back to the broader process ..read more

Much of my current work is with boards and executive teams on the implications of AI, the future of work, and strategy in rapidly changing environments. In this overview document I provide details of 6 in-demand workshops, including key content, outcomes, and examples. The Power of Generative AI AI and the Future of Work Framing Your AI Strategy AI-Augmented Strategic Decision-Making Thriving on Overload: Information Mastery Future-Focused Leadership Please get in touch if you have any questions ..read more

All professional services are being transformed by generative AI, but the impact is especially pointed for creative agencies. Agencies need to reconfigure themselves for a substantially different future. The nature of the client-agency relationship will rapidly evolve, but in there lies an enormous opportunity to shift to a far more collaborative dynamic where value is co-created in seamless workflows across organizational boundaries. I’ve distilling some of my recent thinking from client work in the space into this simple framework. I will be refining the high-level framework as well digging ..read more

The history of humanity has been one of accelerating scientific and technological progress. Now, by amplifying the cognition and capabilities of scientists with AI, we can dramatically step up the pace of discovery. By the very nature of discovery, we cannot know what we will learn. The coming advances in life and brain sciences and medicine alone will be absolutely transformative, let alone those in energy, materials science, food, and more. This framework is a high-level distillation of a few of the cognitive tools and techniques for GenAI to assist scientists. As always it is a Beta version ..read more

Soon virtually every decision will involve AI. For every decision we make, the critical first step is to determine the level of AI delegation. And then select the specific Humans + AI architecture most appropriate to the decision. This framework is the latest iteration of the AI decision-making delegation frameworks I’ve been developing and using with clients, made concise for communication and easy digestion. My frameworks are always works-in-progress, so please share any thoughts or comments on LinkedIn to help shape the next version!! ? See more Humans + AI frameworks. AI delegation level ..read more

The Exploitation-Exploration dilemma is deeply relevant, not only to business strategy, but to many aspects of our lives. It is also a fundamental underpinning of intelligence, human and artificial. The dilemma is essentially: should we continue with what we have, or leave that behind to find something better? Explore-exploit’s role in intelligence The exploitation-exploration dilemma lies at the very roots of the evolution of intelligent life. The first lifeforms that could move had a choice: whether to move and in which direction. Their brains were completely focused on this fundamental choi ..read more

Many are crying doom about the future of work. I believe that a highly prosperous future of job is possible. It is even likely, on condition we do the right things today. In order to create that future, we must believe it is possible. In this mini-report I have distilled the major arguments that a prosperous future of jobs is possible. You can download the report from the image or read the full text below. Please let me know any thoughts on how to refine or improve this, or counter-arguments I can respond to, so I can continue to make the arguments more solid. You can message me where I shared ..read more

I believe the media industry has a prosperous future. Today at the fabulous humAIn conference by Unmade I made that case in the concluding “debAIt”, arguing strongly against the proposition “AI is news media’s extinction level event”. What this debate really boils down to is the business models for news media. A key point beyond the extinction or survival of the industry is its diversity, especially in whether it can extend beyond a handful of major conglomerates and mastheads globally. Subscriptions have finally proven to be a sustainable model for some major players, plus an increasing range ..read more