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Can AI Do a Shakespeare or Only Lucky Hallucinations?

The question of whether machines can replicate the creative genius of a William Shakespeare is intriguing and contentious. How do the nuances of creative genius stack up against lucky hallucination? Can systems ever be trained to achieve genius? Creative Genius vs. Lucky Hallucination Creative genius is often attributed to individuals who produce works of exceptional…
Investors, Management, Organisation, Trend Spotting

Will CxOs have to navigate a re-run of 1848?

The year 1848 saw a wave of revolutions sweep across Europe, toppling monarchies and reshaping the continent’s political landscape. Nearly two centuries later, some observers are drawing unsettling parallels between the tumultuous events of that era and the growing unrest of our own time. As social, economic and technological forces converge in potentially explosive ways,…
Organisation

Are these unprecedented times for CxOs?

In recent years, it has become increasingly common to hear people remark that we are living through unusually turbulent times. From the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change, political polarization, technological disruption, and geopolitical tensions, it can feel as though we are facing an unprecedented convergence of crises and rapid changes. But how unusual is our…
Entrepreneurs, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Trust and survival are intertwined for tech firms

Trust has been a big issue for all of time, or at least the 300,000 years humans have been around. Trust sensitivity has been baked into our DNA by selection, simply because the people most likely to survive and reproduce were those who were skeptical and mistrusting of anything that they didn’t already know. Change…
Organisation

Cloud Challenges for the C-Suite in 2024

Most organisations now live in the digital world and many connect, store and process data and information, and run their operations in Cloud and other IT infrastructure. Usage is accelerating and causing important business issues and challenges. 2024 is shaping up to be a year of opportunity and challenge for firms using Cloud and connected…
Entrepreneurs, Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why Cloud gives tech firms a skills shortage

It’s almost twenty years since AWS publicly launched its first infrastructure service. Those early days of Cloud were chock full of promise: no more hardware ownership to worry about; scale infrastructure up and scale down, paying only for what you use. In many ways that headline promise has been realised. Much of the last two…
Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Three ways Cloud may be holding back your Business Plan

Cloud has become embedded in many firms as the weapon of choice for accessing computing power and storage without needing to own hardware. However, while Cloud has many advantages, there are some important disadvantages that business decision makers must navigate. Sometimes, the underlying disadvantages of Cloud can be overlooked and only become apparent when real…
Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why Operational people dominate the new Cloud era

Cloud technology has captured the headlines for years, and development teams have delighted in all the new services and capabilities that have been added. Rightly so. The race has been on to build new applications and get them running in the Cloud. Yet the emphasis has been shifting steadily, largely overlooked, and this shift has…
Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why using a new Cloud provider is getting even harder

Public Cloud services are widely available, and more and more firms are using these as a platform for their own technology services and systems. Tech teams, though, tend to have a favourite brand of Cloud, often out of familiarity or practicality. This can be a problem because there are several good, business reasons why firms…
Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Why the Cloud carve-up makes life hard for SMEs

Revealing figures published recently in the FT show Cloud supply is highly concentrated in AWS and Azure, and they now command more than half the worldwide revenues in the sector. The rest of the vendors are fragmented and too dispersed for them to be able to exert any significant influence. They pick up what’s left….
Entrepreneurs, Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation, Strategy

What Tim did after Steve

There were a lot of naysayers about the future of Apple when Steve Jobs died in October 2011. Few were confident about the Company he’d created and its future under Tim Cook, who’d just been promoted up from Chief Operating Officer to CEO. Even fewer had any idea about the rocket ship that the business…
Entrepreneurs, Investors, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why business leaders must forget about normal and thrive in the unknown

I’ve been in business a long time, and big events have come and gone: the oil crisis and inflation of 1972; the crash of ’87; a couple of recessions and a few wars and 9/11, you get the picture. Sudden technology changes have done their bit as well. I’m not really sure when it was,…
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