AI and robots are not enough There is a growing school of thought that if you plaster enough AI across your business, it will henceforth be intelligent. And that is without any consideration of the data cesspit used to fuel the AI. Of course artificial is not the only form of intelligence business leaders have access to. However, Taylorism considers natural intelligence as problematic. Original thought would likely lead to process deviation and that can only result in ineffic

Life-death balance An increasing number of societies today have deified efficiency. Efficiency makes sense. A fundamental driver of any living organisation is to do what is necessary with the minimum expenditure of energy. For most of our time on the planet, nutrition was not just a click away. Thus each day was a balancing act in finding food without emptying our energy reserves in the process. Greed is good? This has wired us to be both greedy (who knows when the next meal

What can Cary Grant, LeBron James and Pythagoras teach us about organisational design? In this post, I make the case for a new type of organisational model that benefits the individual, the organisation and society. Let’s start at the start. There are two types of factory. Factory A: There is a visible conveyor belt along which physical components travel. Factory B: There is an invisible conveyor belt along which data travel. Both factories are staffed by lifeless robots. In

Introduction Today is a cause for celebration. As a result of the exponential advancements in technology, today we are witnessing the swiftest rate of growth ever recorded. But on the other hand, it is the slowest day we will witness again. Businesses and governments cannot keep up with how technology, and topically AI, will likely transform the nature of work and society. Keep in mind that technology is only one of several macroenvironmental forces that are both compounding