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The more I work with organisations and build agents the more I see the idea of agents automating tasks as totally wrong. There are so many complications when looking at workflows. For example, in procurement, you need to scope the project, you need to understand what's in the
Organisations Are Not Points Now that you have the 9Q Grid, you might be tempted to ask: "Where is my organisation?" You might point to Q5 and say, "We are here." Or Q2 and say, "We are here." But that's wrong. Organisations
Last week, two extraordinary moments in sports caught my attention and sparked some deep thinking about talent, potential, and what it means to build capability in our organisations. First, there was Kimi Antonelli, a 19-year-old prodigy who Mercedes has been developing since his karting days. He's
As we enter the co-intelligent era, understanding where humans plan a role and where does machine intelligence play a role is critical. Over the years we have had many tools and frameworks to help us. In strategy we have the BCG matrix, Five Forces from Porter and recently the
Not Humans OR AI. Humans WITH AI. In early days of automobiles, we called them "horseless carriages." The name revealed our thinking. We understood new technology only in terms of what it replaced. A carriage—without a horse. The frame of reference was old world. It took decades
For a long time, my biggest challenge was how do I do something? How do I create something? How do I take this idea and make it happen? In the last six to eight months, that's totally changed. I want to explore design. I use Cloud Design Map
Continuing the series for the book The Co-Intelligent Organisation. The One-Second War Lap 49 of the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. Lando Norris is four laps away from his first-ever Formula 1 victory, his McLaren dancing on the edge of adhesion as he holds off the seven-time
Today I launch the co-intelligent organisation book. It will be written in public, learning and looping and sensing as I go. Preface: These are the questions guiding me. They came after I wrote The Helix Moment, which was about strategy, design, and AI. I had spent twenty years in
Helix Signals
Trust. The single biggest challenge for enterprise Agent adoption. In my new book launching next week as a serial, The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a key aspect of the second part of the book, The License is the ability for organisations to build the capability and maturity to adopt and launch
If markdown is the co-intelligent document format, what is a co-intelligent tool? Salesforce, one of the companies that helped create the SaaS era, is now showing us what comes next. For the past two decades, SaaS software was built for humans. We were the users. We clicked the
Co-Intelligent Org
Exponential growth of AI is creating a new kind of challenge. How will humans and organisations actually move forward?
The biggest change in 2025 for coders was -- launch of claude code and Opus 4.5 which brought a real agentic approach. If we have to become a co-intelligent leader the first step is to become fluent in AI. And not just a chat but a real agentic approach.