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Updated automatically from my Forbes feed. Earlier work in HBR, Strategy+Business, MIT Sloan Management Review and the Wall Street Journal is in the research archive. Earlier blog posts are in the blog archive.
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Postcards From the Edge
Informal reflections on how a computable reality affects economics, business, society, daily life and art.
Flatter, Faster, Engineering-Heavy: What Owners Can Learn From AI Startups
Firms that embed cognitive capital in their products are more engineering heavy and flatter. All firms should ask what value they can embed with AI into the product.
AI Agents Are Already Inside Banks. Their Risk Framework Isn't Ready
AI agents are creating new risks for banks, from cybersecurity threats to fraud and lending exposure. Here are five steps banks can take to strengthen their defenses.
AI Apocalypse? Maybe, But We Are Counting The Wrong Things!
AI's real value is improving the capture and use of cognitive capital, and no one is measuring that huge value driver.
Private Equity Uses AI At The Front Of The Deal Cycle. How About The Back?
PE uses AI at the front of the deal process. Most of the value may come later in the cycle.
Can Cognitive Capital Close Private Equity's Growth Gap?
AI enables efficient gathering of cognitive capital. Focus on it may power the organic growth PE needs in portfolio firms.
AI Can Cut Your Costs And Still Leave You Behind
AI's economic returns should be invested in learning faster than the competition.
AI Sovereignty Comes To The Firm: What Thomson Reuters' $40 MM Model Proves
Thomson Reuters owns its own intelligence. Every company needs to think about it too.
Earn, Learn, Bond, Defend: AI Threatens All Four Human Drives, And Your Transformation Depends On Them
AI projects fail because they threaten four fundamental human needs. Smart leaders can fix that.
The Global AI Race Won't Always Be Won By The Biggest Model
Big models won't always win. Look at Ukraine's intelligence production system.
The Self-Driving Company Is AI's Next Business Model.
To understand future AI-native firms, study companies already operating themselves, as military strategists learn from Ukraine's drone warfare.