INSIGHTS

Thinking from the work.

Practical perspectives on strategy, technology, transformation and governance — especially where the fashionable answer can distract from the real problem.

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AI does not fix a broken process

Automation can make dysfunction move faster. The first question is whether the process should exist in its current form at all.

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Sometimes the software problem is actually an operating-model problem

Digital tools expose ambiguity around ownership, rules and decision rights. That can be useful — if we recognise what the system is telling us.

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Architecture is useful when it changes a decision

The value of enterprise architecture is not the diagram. It is better choices about capability, investment, sequencing and risk.

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