Insights
Ideas, observations and perspectives.
Our thinking on data, technology and information – what’s changing, what it means for businesses and the questions worth asking.
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Protect: Good governance should enable progress, not prevent it
Good governance should enable progress, not prevent it. Explore how a proportionate approach to data and information governance helps businesses meet their responsibilities, demonstrate responsible stewardship and earn trust.
Enable: Making more possible with data and technology
Better information, greater efficiency, improved customer service, stronger competitive advantage and new opportunities for growth. Data, technology and AI can help businesses achieve all of these. Explore how to identify the possibilities that matter most, get more from existing capabilities and turn potential into commercial value.
Navigate: Finding clarity in complexity
With more technology, more choice and competing priorities, knowing where to focus can be tricky. Discover how commercial and technical judgement combine to help businesses make better trade-offs, prioritise effectively and move forward with confidence.
Embed: Making change stick
New technology, data and processes only deliver their full value when people adopt new ways of working. Explore how involving people from the outset, understanding the human impact of change and designing for adoption can build lasting capability and deliver commercial value.
Introducing the AIK Advisory Elemental Method
Introducing the AIK Advisory Elemental Method: four interconnected perspectives that help businesses manage risk, realise opportunities, navigate complexity and embed lasting change. Bringing commercial judgement to data and technology challenges.
Hidden supply chain risks: six ways to identify dependencies and improve business resilience
Your technology suppliers may be more connected than you realise. Why hidden dependencies put business resilience at risk, and six practical ways to identify and reduce supply chain risks.
Policies being ignored? Why it happens, why it matters.
Policies. Widely unpopular, critical to governance, often ignored. So how do you design, refine and embed policies that the business actually follows?
What would technical due diligence reveal about your business?
Technical due diligence often arrives as part of a transaction. But it can help you grow too. So what are the right questions, and what if you asked them yourself first?
How to change at the speed your business can handle
Change management is an art. Too fast risks not taking people with you. Too slow risks the benefits withering on the vine. Three questions to help you get the balance right.
AI FOMO is not a strategy: is it a race to the bottom?
The pressure to adopt AI is mounting. But how do you know which opportunities are worth pursuing? Explore how businesses can look beyond the hype, make deliberate commercial choices and balance competitive advantage with the risks and realities of AI adoption.
The Hierarchy of Data Needs
The Hierarchy of Data Needs shows the balance between our need to deliver the clever sophisticated applications whilst balancing the needs to make sure that the data is clean, safe and well regulated.
We love a great Data Visualisation
Everyone loves a good data visualisation, but it is important to understand what makes a good visualisation. Here are my thoughts and some of my favourites.
How to create a Data Strategy
The starting point for any Data Strategy is your organisation’s Business Strategy. They work in partnership, but the Business Strategy is the “source of truth” and the Data Strategy will show how your use of data will support it. If you’ve not got a defined Business Strategy, then you may wish to work that out first.
A Data Strategy Story: Why Data Strategy Matters as Businesses Grow
Why does any organisation need a Data Strategy and how does it complement the Business Strategy? Does it have a demonstrable value?
I’m going to describe the journey of a small company and how it evolves over time.