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19 September 2026 · AI · AI Strategy · Leadership · NFPPolicy Didn't Stop These Breaches. Judgement Would Have.
Why charity AI policies aren't preventing data breaches. Real cases, the 20:60:20 rule for safe AI use, and what trustees now need to know about AI governance.
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17 September 2026 · AI · AI Journey · AI StrategyFour Reasons to Adopt AI
Four reasons businesses give for waiting on AI, and why each one turns into a stronger case for starting now. From the opportunity gap to why trust can improve, not erode.
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16 September 2026 · AI · AI JourneyFour Reasons Not to Adopt AI
Four reasons businesses give for not adopting AI, and why none of them hold up. Practical thinking from the ramsac AI Summit on where to start.
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13 September 2026 · AI · AI Journey · BooksDid a French-speaking robot start my fascination with AI?
PMF was an extraterrestrial robot who arrived in France on a flying saucer, hovered rather than walked and helped pupils learn French. Very 1980s. Very low-tech by today’s standards. But clearly memorable and it got me wondering about just how much little things in our school days can influence our future.
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10 September 2026 · AI · AI Skills · LeadershipWhat did the task you just automated used to teach the person doing it?
I ask business owners how much time AI has saved their team, and they always have a number ready. I ask what the task used to teach the person doing it, and the room usually goes quiet.
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5 September 2026 · AI · ChatGPT · Risk · AGIOpenAI Astra GPT 6: the hype, the risk, and the bit nobody’s actually verified yet.
OpenAI’s Astra just crossed a critical safety threshold. Here’s what leadership readiness actually looks like before that capability reaches your everyday tools.
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28 August 2026 · AI · Copilot · AI toolsMicrosoft Scout and the Shift From Answering to Acting
Microsoft Scout is Microsoft’s first step from AI that answers to AI that acts. Here’s what its two gate admin model tells you about getting agentic AI right, and why governance needs to come before capability.
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23 August 2026 · AI · AI Policy · AI Strategy · ClaudeShould Your IT Support Company Block the Claude AI Microsoft 365 Connector?
Why do IT support companies keep blocking the Claude AI Microsoft 365 connector over data security fears? Here's what it actually accesses, why some MSPs default to no, and how to make a governed decision instead.
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21 August 2026 · Cybersecurity · Best PracticeThe Safest Click Is No Click At All
That unsubscribe button at the bottom of a suspicious email feels like the responsible thing to click. Often it isn’t. Here’s the rule for knowing when to unsubscribe and when to just report, block, and delete.
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18 August 2026 · Thinking · Not Thinking · ReflectionThe Three-Day Lag: Why Your Brain Doesn’t Believe You’re on Holiday Yet
It took me a few days on a family holiday to actually feel like I was on one. The laptop was shut, the out of office was on, and some part of my brain was still running the same background processes it runs at my desk. That got me curious about why switching off takes longer than we think, and what the research says actually happens once it does.
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15 August 2026 · AI · AI Policy · AI Strategy · Best Practice · ISO 42001Five things every business should do before deploying an AI agent
Building AI agents and workflows? Here are five things every business should do before deploying, drawn from the world's first AI governance standard.
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13 August 2026 · AI Strategy · AI Cost · Best Practice · AI JourneyWhat does your post-AI operating model look like?
Every business leader agrees AI will change how they work. Almost none have redesigned their business model to account for it. That needs to change.
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9 August 2026 · AI · AI Skills · AI Training · BooksWhy the problem with AI isn't AI
Most AI disappointment isn't a technology problem. It's a briefing problem. Here's why the ask matters more than the model, and what to do differently.
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7 August 2026 · AI Strategy · PeopleI think therefore AI am
There's a question I like to ask that has nothing to do with technology.
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5 August 2026 · AI Strategy · AI PolicyAI Blocker Diagnostic Next Steps
You've taken the diagnostic, whatever your results (good or bad) there are logical next steps as this article explains.
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2 August 2026 · AI Strategy · AI Training · AI PolicyDo you think you are an AI Enabler or an AI Blocker in your organisation?
Most business leaders will tell you they support AI adoption in their organisation, and most of them genuinely mean it. The problem is that support and enablement aren't the same thing, and blocking doesn't always look like blocking. Sometimes it looks like governance. Sometimes it looks like caution. Sometimes, if we're honest, it looks like leadership.
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1 August 2026 · OpenAI · AI StrategyOpenAI Small Business Support
OpenAI have launched a dedicated programme for small businesses which it's worth knowing about.
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30 July 2026 · AI Policy · AI SkillsWhat is an AI Lobotomy?
Most people hear "AI lobotomy" and think it means AI is making us less intelligent. It means the opposite and it could be happening in your businesses right now.
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24 July 2026 · Carbon Footprint · AI Cost · AI CalculatorWhat's the real cost of using AI?
Every time you use AI, it uses electricity, produces a bit of carbon and drinks a little water. Almost nobody using it day to day has any real sense of how much.
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22 July 2026 · AI Strategy · Best Practice · ClaudeUploading PDFs to AI is costing you money
If you're uploading PDFs to your AI tools, you're almost certainly wasting money. And the fix takes about a minute.
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20 July 2026 · AI · People · HRAI isn’t taking jobs. It’s changing them.
Don’t believe all the alarmist headlines! AI isn’t taking jobs. It’s changing them. There’s a difference, and it matters.
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18 July 2026 · AI tools · AI Strategy · ChatGPT · Copilot · Claude · GeminiWhich AI should I use?
The most common question I get after an AI keynote is "which one should we actually use?" This is how I answer the question.
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17 July 2026 · AI Journey · Stories · CommunicationLet me tell you a story...
Since the earliest humans gathered around a fire, stories have been how we make sense of the world. Not bullet points. Not frameworks. Not slide decks. Stories. They're how we remember things, how we connect with ideas, and how we decide what to trust.
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10 July 2026 · promptingCRIT prompt framework
Most people using AI are getting about 20% of what it's capable of. Not because the tools aren't powerful enough, but because the prompts aren't. When I read "The AI-Driven Leader" by Geoff Woods, one framework in it stuck with me and I've used it ever since.
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6 July 2026 · prompting · Copilot · WorkIQCreating a whiteboard sketch using AI
Use AI to quickly generate a whiteboard sketch which tells everyone a bit more about you and what you do.
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4 July 2026 · AI · Cybersecurity · UpdatesThinking out loud, in public
There's a new section live on the Thought Provoked resource site, a blog, where I'll be sharing my latest thinking on AI, cybersecurity and business resilience as it happens, rather than saving everything for a talk or a book.
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