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  • SenseMaking from the Web

    Democratizing AI with digital adoption platforms Posted on October 16. More quickly even than the internet, generative AI has become a core technology that is shaping our immediate workplace reality and longer-term … The new non-negotiable marketing skills according to Booking.com CMO Arjan Dijk Posted on October 9. Arjan Dijk has presided over Booking.com’s most…

  • Is Intention running the software in your head

    This is an alternative take on what I have written about before, Choose carefully how you spend your time. In that piece I riffed on Annie Dillard’s famous quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” By that is ultimately meant, you become what you spend your time doing and…

  • Generative AI is here but enterprise adoption is not – here are your strategy choices

    At a time of change or inflection such as I believe we are in, it’s important to recognise how you respond. I don’t mean the regular type of change, as constant and accelerated as it has been over the last few decades. I mean the groundbreaking type. You have to be able to recognise change…

  • The ways and means of technology adoption and strategy

    Last week I wrote about Microsoft’s Viva [employee experience platform] supporting adoption of it’s new AI technology Copilot which is embedded in the Microsft 365 productivity suite (disclosure). This week I wanted to contextualise things a little. Other than just supporting adoption of a new technology like Copilot, Microsoft Viva has to be considered much…

  • Microsoft Viva supporting adoption of M365 Copilot

    As I work on both technologies with customers (disclosure) I wanted to share how I am going about supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with Microsoft Viva technologies, especially with adoption activities. It’s no secret in the technology world that you cannot just make technologies available to users without making an effort to onboard them and…

  • Techno optimist with positive impact – new generational sensemaking

    Two things/events lead me here, to this thinking and sense making. One is Marc Andreesen’s latest thinking, published on the 16th of October in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto. The other is the crisis unfolding in the middle East. Here are my thoughts, not so much on the thinking or the events themselves but our reaction to…

  • The powers and limitations of generative AI in writing

    I think there are broadly three areas in which Generative AI is having an impact on creativity and/or productivity at work. I asked ChatGPT to elaborate on the three and the result I got is below. A great result if I may say and far better than I could have done in the time. So…

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    How brands are reshaping the subscription economy Posted on September 22. The subscription market is booming, fueled by consumers’ thirst for content, convenience and innovative products and services. At the same time, … OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking Posted on September 13. Of all the forms of human intellect that…

  • 5 reasons why those using AI will accelerate innovation

    I’m talking about how the use of AI will accelerate innovation efforts and outcomes for startups and established companies alike. How those that use AI for these efforts will outsmart and outperform those that don’t. Innovation will be a major beneficiary of AI as the process of innovation becomes more efficient and the management of…

  • The pernicious cult of expertise

    Suddenly, Everybody’s an Expert. 👈🏼That article in the New York Times was written in 2000. Can you imagine if that statement was appropriate then, how much more appropriate can it be now? Now in the age of TikTok and YouTube and the plethora of how to shorts and videos. Now in the in age of…

  • Future of humain work – research

    So in this post I just want to highlight two main aspects of investigation that will likely form part of the trend report. The dynamics of human and AI interactions as research subject I unfortunately cannot share details of a piece of research I have been privy to as a result of working at Microsoft…

  • Hackathon as growth lab and how to lead a hack

    I mean growth in terms of mindset and learning and a lab in terms of environments that foster innovation activities and a culture of innovation. It’s no secret that is why they are endorsed by the CEO of Microsoft himself, where I work (disclosure). I’m leading one at the moment (again) and sharing what I…

  • The paradox of performance in the workplace

    The world of work has faced a paradox since the industrial revolution. Managers realised that applying technology and enforcing better processes boosted performance but looking after employees (then from a health and safety point of view), would also. These days it’s not a health and safety issue but more about engagement. The paradox is that…

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    New meta-analysis confirms mindfulness-based programs reduce psychological distress Posted on August 10. Mindfulness-Based Programs lead to small to moderate reductions in psychological distress among adults, with effects lasting up to six months, … The Impact of Generative AI on the Future of Work: 5 Key Insights from the McKinsey Report Posted on August 4. The…