Practical writing on AI and technology leadership.

What predicts a successful turnaround? Not the strategy deck - it is the rate of change. The fix: ship the good-enough idea, learn, and repeat.

Modernization makes the business current. Transformation makes it defensible. How to classify every IT project, fix foundations first, and build each of the nine moats with digital and AI.

Nine structural moats, translated from software to the plant floor. Score them honestly, validate them against the numbers, and build the ones a hold period can actually move.

Sponsor return comes from three sources, and most plans manage one. Grow the base, earn the premium, kill the discount, delever - and score every initiative by the pathways it moves.

You do not buy an intelligent organization. You build one in four layers - semantic layer, access, skills, agents - on top of the systems you already run. The mid-2026 version of how we do it.

You do not need a year of data cleanup before AI can work. Build a semantic layer over the mess, reserve cleanup for what is legally binding, and get a first-pass model in weeks.

Rent the AI models - they are commodities. Own your semantic layer - the governed definitions of what your business means. The build-vs-buy line, drawn where it actually belongs.

A bulletproof, step-by-step guide for installing Claude Code on domain-joined Windows workstations, including the PATH remediation step the installer leaves incomplete.

A practical reference guide to AI terminology for executives and operators. Updated with current terminology from large language models to agentic workflows.

The essential tools you need before building AI-powered web applications with Claude Code. Covers Node.js, VS Code, Git, and account setup for both Mac and Windows.