The Fickle Nature of AI Choice: Why Enterprise Strategy Must Assume Sudden Platform Shifts
In early AI adoption cycles, enterprise buyers assumed platform stability. Vendors matured slowly. Roadmaps were predictable. Switching costs were high and therefore rare. That assumption no longer holds. The recent and rapid migration of power users, developers, and enterprise teams from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Anthropic’s Claude surprised many organisations. The shift was not triggered by […]
Title: From Pilot to Production: The Governance Gap Killing AI ROI
Most AI pilots look successful on paper. Accuracy improves. Cycle times fall. Staff engagement rises. Slide decks circulate. Executive sponsors take notice. Then momentum stalls, somewhere between demonstration and deployment. The problem is rarely model performance. It is governance. More precisely, it is the absence of governance designed for production rather than experimentation. Across regulated […]
Same Challenge, Different Subject
Every major wave of information technology follows the same arc. The subject matter changes, the terminology evolves, and the vendors rebrand the promise, but the underlying organisational behaviour remains stubbornly consistent. From mainframes to personal computing, from the internet to cloud, and now with artificial intelligence, enterprises repeat the same mistakes, in the same order, […]
ISO 42001 and the Rise of Auditable AI: What Boards Now Expect From AI Controls
Executive summary Artificial intelligence has moved decisively from experimentation to operational dependency. Boards are no longer asking whether AI is being used; they are asking whether it is controlled, defensible, and auditable. ISO 42001 marks a structural shift in how organisations are expected to govern AI, reframing AI not as a technical capability but as […]
Procurement Directors: The AI Contracting Playbook
How to Buy GenAI Without Lock In, Hidden Usage Costs, or Uninsurable Compliance Risk GenAI procurement fails in predictable ways because most organisations try to buy it like SaaS: fixed licence, generic data clauses, and a security schedule that assumes stable, deterministic software. GenAI is not that. It is stochastic, usage-metered, supply-chain heavy (models, hosting, […]
CFO and Procurement: From Tool Sprawl to Portfolio Discipline
How to Consolidate AI Spend, Negotiate Better Commercials, and Prove Value in 90 Days Executive context Enterprise AI adoption is now following the same arc as early cloud: rapid experimentation, fragmented buying, overlapping capabilities, and a cost model that shifts from capital to variable consumption. The difference is that AI adds new forms of risk […]
CFOs: Stop Funding “AI Pilots” and Start Funding Measurable Outcomes
A Procurement Ready Model for ROI, Risk, and Run Rate Control Enterprise AI spending is drifting into a familiar pattern: small pilots, short proofs of concept, and disconnected tool trials that never graduate into controlled, auditable, value producing capabilities. Finance then sees unpredictable invoices, fragmented licensing, inconsistent security posture, and a backlog of “promising experiments” […]
AI Infrastructure Is Starting to Look Like the New Cloud, But Only for Organisations That Build the Control Plane
Enterprise technology funding signals for 2026 suggest a decisive migration from experimentation to industrialisation. Gartner’s 2026 CIO and Technology Executive research highlights a consistent pattern: increased investment intent in GenAI and AI, with parallel uplift in cybersecurity, data and analytics, cloud platforms, application modernisation, and integration technologies. The implication is not simply “more AI spend”. […]
Is the AI bubble going to burst, and if so what can I do to protect my company?
Signs of structural instability within the current AI market are becoming increasingly visible. Valuations have risen at a rate detached from commercial reality, driven by unprecedented investment inflows and by a level of customer experimentation that is itself temporary. The underlying concern is straightforward: the revenue profile supporting today’s trillion-dollar valuations is not durable. A […]
Building an Ideation-to-Demand Pipeline: How Enterprises Surface Real AI Value, Prevent Shadow AI, and Balance Vendor Influence
AI succeeds in an organisation only when deployment aligns with how people actually work. The highest-value opportunities do not emerge from vendor roadmaps, technology demonstrations, or leadership assumptions shaped by the latest platform capability. They emerge from workflow friction: the repetitive, time-consuming, error-prone steps that users experience daily but rarely escalate formally. Establishing a structured […]
Why the Emerging AI Governance Gap Should Alarm Enterprise Leaders
The BSI (British Standards Institution) has issued a stark warning: many organisations are embracing AI at pace — yet far too few have implemented adequate governance frameworks. The State of Play: Rapid AI Investment, Weak Governance A recent BSI–commissioned global study — combining an AI-assisted analysis of over 100 multinational annual reports with two surveys […]
Australia’s new stance: no standalone AI law, lighter regulation
Taken collectively, these steps represent a clear shift away from the idea of a dedicated, sweeping AI regulation framework. The emphasis is on leveraging existing laws — privacy, consumer protections, liability, workplace regulation — augmented by soft governance (guidance, oversight, monitoring), rather than creating novel, AI-centric statutes. Interpretation: What does this tell us about Australia’s […]