Flow Engineering: From Value Stream Mapping to Effective Action
We have been doing it for many years without realizing it: flow engineering. The book of the same name by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis…
Team OKRs in Action
How to link operations with strategic vision? 👉 OKR. It stands for Objectives and Key Results. There are Company OKRs, Team OKR, and Personal OKR.…
Jobs to be done.
“Once upon a time, there were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. Whenever there was an important job to be done, Everybody was…
The Real AI Bottleneck Is Organizational Reinvention, Not Computing Power
In my many lectures, trainings, and workshops on AI strategy & transformation, I repeatedly return to a topic that is not on the agenda: design…
Speaking of strategic planning …
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” —Mike Tyson
ML = AI?
At Machine Learning Week Europe, I surprisingly had several conversations about whether “machine learning” was still the right name for the conference, because of the…
Data Sanity in an AI World: How to Drive Real Business Value
To the point: “The central paradox of the current AI boom is our obsession with results while neglecting the source.”—Data sources drive AI results! There…
Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems
AI is like humans: alone, we are pretty stupid and can only solve simple tasks. As soon as the problem becomes more complex, more complex…
Low-Flying
The devil is in the details. These details/devils often cause strategies or solutions to fail. What looks good on the surface only reveals the ugly…
Is AI a “Normal Technology”?
This week’s good read is in fact a great read—from a thought leader whom I have followed for many years: Tim O’Reilly. He is asking…
Intelligence at scale: Data monetization in the age of gen AI
Even before the breakthrough of AI, it was a bad idea to sell your data instead of monetizing the products derived from data and analytics,…
AI4ME – Let AI Define Your AI Strategy
Don’t think of AI as artificial intelligence, but augmented intelligence: AI isn’t smarter than you, but you are smarter with AI. Therefore, we developed AI4ME…
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By now, everyone has probably seen the saying “AI Won’t Replace You. A Human Using AI Will.” on LinkedIn and other social media platforms. As…
Workshop Over Workslop
I recently had a good conversation with a head of data & AI. He had created the AI strategy for the company with ChatGPT. The…
Stop Chasing “Efficiency AI.” The Real Value Is in “Opportunity AI.”
We couldn’t agree more: “Companies pursuing incremental productivity gains risk being displaced by AI-native competitors building entirely new business models.” In our training courses and…
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Over the years, my focus has shifted from Data/AI (Architecture) Design to (Data/AI) Organization Design. The reason: even the best technology is worthless if people…
Monetizing Proprietary Data in the AI Boom
This week good read is a long read and it’s worth it! Especially if you think your company data is worth something. What makes data…
How to Measure Anything
“We can’t measure that.” – You probably know the excuse. In times of Gen AI hype, it’s more popular than ever: “Productivity growth thanks to…