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 […]
The Fickle Nature of AI Choice: Why SME Leaders Must Design for Switchability, Not Loyalty
In early 2026, a visible and rapid migration occurred across professional communities from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Anthropic’s Claude. The shift was not gradual procurement drift. It was immediate behavioural change driven by perceived performance differentials, feature releases, and reasoning improvements. This was not a reputational collapse. It was a capability inflection. For SME directors and […]
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 […]
The Hidden Cost of Uncontrolled AI in Regulated Enterprises
International Organization for Standardization EU Artificial Intelligence Act Most regulated organisations already have AI in production. They simply do not know where, how, or on what terms. AI adoption has shifted from experimentation to operational dependence. Generative systems now support customer service, underwriting, credit assessment, marketing content, legal review, software development, fraud detection, and internal […]
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 […]
ISO 42001 and the Rise of Auditable AI: What Boards Now Expect From AI Controls
Artificial intelligence has moved decisively out of experimentation and into operational, customer-facing, revenue-affecting systems. As a result, boards are no longer asking whether AI is innovative or efficient. They are asking whether it is controllable, defensible, and auditable. This shift explains the rapid rise in attention toward ISO 42001 and the broader concept of auditable […]
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 […]