AI Adoption: Why Your Experts Aren’t Convinced

AI Adoption: Why Your Experts Aren’t Convinced

AI Adoption: Why Your Experts Aren’t Convinced A Copilot licence has a price you can put in a spreadsheet. The cost of an expert putting their name to a wrong answer is rather harder to calculate. That difference matters when you are trying to improve AI adoption. The...
DBA Value in the AI Era: Lessons from Rory Sutherland

DBA Value in the AI Era: Lessons from Rory Sutherland

The DBA Who Prevented Every Outage Is the First One Made Redundant There has been a lot of noise on LinkedIn this year about the state of the technology job market, and AI is taking most of the blame. Some of that is overblown. Some of it is not. A feed cannot tell...
AI Use Case Scoping: Start With the Number, Not the Tooll

AI Use Case Scoping: Start With the Number, Not the Tooll

Start With the Number, Not the Tool: How I Scope AI Use Cases Technology is question six of seven. That is the single most useful thing I can tell you about AI use case scoping, and it is the part most teams get backwards. On a recent 12-week agentic AI and automation...
The AI Adoption Gap: Why Staff Are Ahead of the Business

The AI Adoption Gap: Why Staff Are Ahead of the Business

The AI Adoption Gap: why your people are ahead of your organisation Here is a number that should worry every IT Director in a mid-sized UK organisation. According to the ONS, around 55% of employees say they use AI for work or education. Only 35% of businesses with...
Copilot Chat vs Agents: When to Use Which

Copilot Chat vs Agents: When to Use Which

Copilot Chat vs agents: when to use which The most common question I get in Copilot workshops right now is not “how do I write a better prompt”. It is “should I be using an agent for this?” And the honest answer, probably of the time, is no....