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Using AI to Write Your CV? Build the Evidence Bank First
Your job search needs an evidence bank before it needs a CV The worst CV I've seen this year was beautifully written. Clean structure, confident language, not a comma out of place. It was also completely void, empty of character and personality. Every line could have...
What Is a Claude Skill? A Plain-English Guide
What Is a Claude Skill? A Plain-English Answer I have started saying the word 'skill' a lot, in posts, in client conversations, and on the consultancy AI operating system page. It is doing a great deal of work in those sentences, and when I searched for a...
What Is a Consultancy AI Operating System?
What Is a Consultancy AI Operating System? Somewhere in your firm right now, a proposal is three days late because the only person who writes them properly is on client work. That sentence describes almost every five to fifty person consultancy I meet, and it is the...
Five Years a Microsoft MVP: Reflections on Renewal
Five Years a Microsoft MVP Every July I find myself watching my inbox a little more closely than usual. This month, the email arrived, and I am pleased to say I have been renewed as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Technically, it is my fifth renewal, which felt like...
Last Person Standing World Cup 2026: Four Teams, 38 Survivors
Four Teams, 38 Survivors: Last Person Standing at the Business End of the World Cup I've been meaning to write an update on Last Person Standing - the web app I built for the game of the same name, for some time. With four teams left in the World Cup 2026 and the...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents: Beyond Drafting to Real Value
Getting Real Value from Microsoft 365 Copilot: Beyond Drafting One of the more interesting parts of delivering AI enablement programmes is seeing how different organisations actually use these tools. Over the last two to three years I have helped organisations across...
AI Operating Model: Three Shapes, One That Scales
The Three Shapes of an AI Operating Model, and Why Only One Scales Every organisation that gets serious about AI eventually asks the same structural question: who owns this? Not who owns the licences, that is a procurement question. Who owns capability, standards,...
AI Landing Zone Design: the Container and Workbench Pattern
The AI Container and the AI Workbench: designing an AI landing zone for builders and business users In part one of this series I looked at how the multi-model agent-building platforms work, Microsoft Foundry, AWS Bedrock and Google's Vertex AI Agent Builder, and how...
Microsoft Foundry vs AWS Bedrock vs Vertex AI: Which Wins?
Microsoft Foundry, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI: The Real Differences in Building Agentic AI I've spent this week teaching AI-901, and if you've taken that course recently, you'll know the syllabus has shifted towards Microsoft Foundry. Not Copilot. Not chatbots....