Month: June 2025
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Gigantomania and why big projects go wrong
This weeks news about the further delays and overspend costs associated with the UK’s HS2 high-speed rail project had a distinct air of inevitability about it. Government infrastructure initiatives and large corporate projects that don’t overrun and exceed budget are a unique kind of rarity. Oxford academic Bent Flyvbjerg, who co-wrote the excellent ‘How Big Things…
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Superagency: Amplifying Human Capability with AI
There’s something very attractive about the idea of ‘superagency’, the emerging concept that sits at the intersection of AI, organisational design, and talent. It refers to the amplification of individual or team capability through AI, allowing people to operate with outsized influence, speed, and creativity. The idea is that we’re creating a compounding effect where…
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Integrating AI into the strategy workflow
I’m a big fan of the idea of AI amplifying human capability and have long been working to fully embed AI into my strategy work. For me it’s been a real game-changer. It’s not just about efficiency, although it is like having a mini-team of researchers always on hand which is amazing. It’s also that…
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How streaming has changed music
Was it Marshall McLuhan (or Winston Churchill or John M Culkin) who said: ‘We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us’? After last week’s post on what the end of the silent movie era tells us about inflection points in the creative industry, subscriber Tom Goodwin dropped me a note commenting on how streaming had completely…