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Implementation, ROI, adoption, and leadership decisions for AI in business

// ai strategy · mar 30, 2025

The Real Price of AI: Ethics, Energy, and Everything in Between

If your opinion on AI can fit on a bumper sticker, you're probably wrong. AI is a trade-off. It can optimise. It can scale. It can even help solve energy problems. But it also comes with real ethical and...
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// ai in practice · mar 23, 2025

How Smart Teams Choose the Right AI for the Job

Don't Let Your Software Vendor Choose Your AI Most businesses use only the AI that comes with their software - like Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini. I've found this limits your results without you even...
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// ai strategy · mar 11, 2025

The AI Job Boom

AI is no longer a niche skill - it's becoming a core competency. Since late 2022, AI-related job postings have increased by 68%, while overall tech job postings have fallen by 17% and general IT roles have...
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// ai strategy · mar 10, 2025

The Future of Professional Services

Clients will soon realise they're paying for something AI can do at a fraction of the cost - what's your next move? AI is Reshaping Professional Services - Are You Ready? AI has fundamentally changed the...
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// ai strategy · mar 9, 2025

Human-First AI

The Business Case for Human-Centred AI If you think AI is just a cost-cutting tool, you're making a billion-dollar mistake. AI is a fundamental shift transforming how we work and live. As this revolution...
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// ai strategy · mar 1, 2025

Can AI Help the Planet Instead of Harming It?

AI is a power-hungry tool - there's no denying that. It can also be a problem-solver for energy efficiency. There's a lot of talk about the environmental cost of AI. 🔥 On one side, people are that AI is...
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// ai strategy · feb 24, 2025

Should You Disclose AI Use?

AI Disclosure: A Practical Path Forward Artificial intelligence in content creation has sparked plenty of debate. Many of us are trying to figure out how AI fits into our work - and more importantly, how...
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// ai strategy · feb 24, 2025

AI is Not Overhyped

There's a lot of talk about AI and it being overhyped. I think that it's fundamentally wrong to say it's overhyped. This is a change on par with the printing press or electricity. I get it. Many individual...
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// ai strategy · feb 21, 2025

Risk and AI Adoption - Whitepaper

Managing AI Adoption: Managing Risks AI is rapidly moving from the horizon to the here and now, transforming business operations across industries. For business leaders, this means more than just keeping...
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// ai strategy · feb 14, 2025

Dealing with AI Overwhelm

When AI Gives You Too Many Ideas (And What To Do About It) Here's a challenge that tends to get worse as you get better at working with AI. At first, you're getting great results, solving problems faster,...
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