Long-form briefings on complex problems facing senior leaders. Each takes a single issue and works it through in depth. Where a subject also needs technical treatment, an Executive Briefing is accompanied by companion publications for the people who have to build the answer, as with AI That Knows Your Business.
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Why organisations stopped designing how they develop people, what the routine work was quietly doing while nobody costed it, and the method for building capability deliberately now that the work which did it by accident has gone.
For executives, board members, and senior decision-makers
Most organisations have never designed how they develop people. Capable people arrived as a by-product of routine work, and that work is what AI does well. The briefing sets out the evidence that the pipeline is already thinning, and the method for building capability on purpose.
Why the technology businesses depend on has become harder to rely on, and the design and rehearsal choices that determine whether an organisation can keep operating when a dependency it took for granted is no longer there.
For executives, board members, and senior decision-makers
Most businesses now rely on technology they neither own nor control, at a moment when the ground beneath it has begun to shift. The briefing sets out where that exposure sits, why it is growing, and how to design and rehearse for the day a dependency you took for granted is no longer there.
Why enterprise AI underperforms on business-specific work, and the architectural choices that determine whether AI investment compounds into an asset or evaporates into reconfiguration. The series argues the strategic position for executives and specifies the architecture for enterprise architects as paired publications.
For executives, board members, and senior decision-makers
Argues the strategic position on enterprise AI: four kinds of knowledge, three architectural layers, four properties of trust, and the five decisions every organisation is making deliberately or by default.
For enterprise architects and senior technical leaders
The architectural companion to AI That Knows Your Business. Takes the same argument into implementation, working through the technical considerations for enterprise AI estates.
For enterprise architects, senior security, and audit leads
The security walkthrough. One request followed across the four layers the Architecture Briefing specifies, demonstrating how the security architecture operates in practice.
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Related reading
The open standard that addresses the architectural problem the briefings describe. Free to use, MIT licence.
The four types of knowledge that make an AI assistant genuinely useful, and why most tools only address one of them.
Articles from MultipleWorks on the questions executive teams are working through.