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AI in Practice
AI Strategy & Product

AI Platforms vs AI Products

Organizations confuse platform readiness with product value creation.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Strategy & Product

When AI Should Not Be Used

The decision not to use AI constitutes a first-class product judgment.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Operations & Product

Managing Model Drift Is a Product Problem

Model drift is fundamentally a product ownership problem.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
Product & Delivery

Outcome-Driven Delivery Is a Measurement Problem

You cannot deliver what you cannot measure.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
Delivery & Operations

Delivery Velocity Is a Systems Property

Velocity is a property of the system, not individual teams.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
Organizational Change

Why Big Transformations Fail

Organizational change obeys conservation laws.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Operations & Governance

The AI Implementation Debt That Nobody Measures

Implementation debt compounds until sudden failures occur.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Ethics & Governance

Why AI Ethics Without Operations Is Theater

Ethics principles that cannot be measured cannot be enforced.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
Organizational Performance

The Compound Interest of Organizational Learning

Learning velocity determines long-term competitive position.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Strategy

Why Most AI Strategies Are Technology Strategies in Disguise

The confusion between strategy and technology plans dooms AI investments.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Delivery & Operations

Why AI Projects Need Product Thinking

AI systems are products to be evolved, not artifacts to be built.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Operations & Architecture

The Hidden Tax of AI Complexity

Complexity should be treated as a liability, not an asset.

February 1, 202630 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Strategy & Operations

Why AI Requires Product Operating Models, Not Teams

AI success depends on product operating modelsβ€”explicit systems defining how decisions are made, learned from, governed, and evolvedβ€”not on team structures. Teams optimize locally; operating models optimize systemically.

2026-01-2226 min read
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AI in Practice
AI Strategy & Operations

Why AI Decision Latency Predicts Organizational Failure

Organizations optimize AI inference latency (milliseconds) while outcomes depend on decision latency (hours to months). Decision latencyβ€”the time between AI output and organizational actionβ€”predicts institutional failure better than any performance dashboard.

2026-01-2028 min read
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AI in Practice
Data Management & AI Operations

The Data Quality Illusion: Why Clean Data Is Never Clean Enough

The systematic overconfidence in data quality that undermines AI initiatives before they beginβ€”and why fitness-for-purpose must replace the pursuit of abstract cleanliness

2026-01-1634 minutes
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

When Not to Use AI

The Strategic Discipline of Knowing When AI Is the Wrong Solution

2025-03-2417 min read
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

AI as a Capability, Not a Feature

Why Organizations Must Stop Treating AI as Product Functionality

2025-03-2316 min read
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

Why Most AI Roadmaps Are Fiction

The Planning Fallacy in Enterprise AI Strategy

2025-03-2218 min read
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

AI Value Realization vs AI Adoption

Why Usage Metrics Mask the Enterprise AI Value Gap

2025-03-2120 min read
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

From AI Pilots to AI Products

Why Most AI Initiatives Never Scaleβ€”and What the 5% Who Succeed Do Differently

2025-03-2024 min read
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Product Γ— AI
AI Strategy

AI Strategy Is Product Strategy

Why Value Creation, Not Model Sophistication, Determines AI Success

2025-03-1922 min read
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Foundation Canon
Modern Delivery Theory

The Product Leader as System Architect

Beyond Product Vision to Organizational Design

2025-03-0319 min read
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Foundation Canon
Modern Delivery Theory

Designing Product Organizations as Adaptive Systems

Moving Beyond Structure to Dynamic Capability

2025-02-2421 min read
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Foundation Canon
Modern Delivery Theory

Why Digital Transformation Fails

Decoding the 70% Failure Rate

2025-02-1722 min read
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Foundation Canon
Modern Delivery Theory

Why Most OKRs Fail

The Implementation Gap Between Framework and Outcomes

2025-02-1020 min read
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Foundation Canon
Product Governance

Product Governance Without Killing Speed

Enabling Autonomy Through Clarity, Not Control

2025-02-0219 min read
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Foundation Canon
Product Strategy

Product Strategy as Portfolio of Bets

Managing Uncertainty Through Deliberate Risk Distribution

2025-01-2621 min read
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Foundation Canon
AI Strategy

AI Agents and the Management Layer

How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Organizational Design

2025-01-1924 min read
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Foundation Canon
Product Management

Outcome-Driven Delivery

Why Velocity Without Direction Fails

2025-01-1220 min read
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Foundation Canon
Product Management

Product, Program, Project, and Engineering Management

Understanding the Four Disciplines That Shape Modern Delivery

2025-01-0522 min read
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