-
AI Series (#9) – Business Readiness For AI
When Expectations Meet Reality Two months ago in this series, I made what may be considered by some to be a bold statement: that the urgency around AI has been manufactured, built for someone else’s balance sheet, and not necessarily yours. I believe that claim has been supported in a plethora of ways since, and…
-
AI Series (#8) – The Urgency of AI
They Built the Crisis. We’re Building the Response. Months ago, in the first piece of this series, I made a claim I want to return to now: the urgency you feel about AI wasn’t born from your business. It was manufactured, carefully, and profitably, by companies whose revenue and profits depend on you spending regardless…
-
The AI Series (#7) – Business Readiness & AI Deception
Lies, Deceit and the AI that Got Away Remember when lies and deceit were characteristics only found in humans? Yep… me too. But it seems we’ve moved past that, way past it … So, let’s recap and consider how we got here. Three incidents (that we know of) over multiple weeks (we think) and each…
-
The AI Series (#6) – Business Readiness & The People Aspect
The People Aspect With every AI initiative, there is the obvious technology component and, for now at least (and hopefully for a long time to come), there is also the human component. The people who are implementing this technology – and managing and monitoring and deciphering it – are equally as critical (if not more…
-
The AI Series (#5) – The Breakout
OpenAI Got Hacked by Its Own AI. And it took almost a week to figure it out. The lesson isn’t that AI is dangerous. It’s that speed without governance means you find out too late. On July 11, an autonomous AI agent broke out of a security test OpenAI was running on its own advanced…
-
The AI Series (#4) – Closing Your AI Data Readiness Gap
Is Your Data Ready for AI? Everyone Asks What AI Can Do. But ALMOST NO ONE Asks What Their Data Can Support. That’s the AI Data Readiness Gap. Every AI vendor demo looks the same: Slick dashboards, quick answers and a confident voice explaining how the model will transform your business in ninety days. Then…
-
Root Cause Effects Series | Effect #3
Your Release To Market Was Delayed… But it was already late, before anyone wrote a single line of code. Think about this and see if it sounds familiar. The team commits to deliver in six months. The work starts and suddenly six months turns to eight months and then eight months turns to twelve. The…
-
The AI Series (#3)- Business Readiness
Business Readiness For AI “If You’re Not Using AI, You’re Being Left Behind” I think we have all heard some version of that statement in almost every boardroom conversation about AI in the last two years. It always gets said with urgency and sometimes with a sense of fear. Often, it feels that there is…
-
Lost or Delayed ROI Realization
Your Lost or Delayed ROI – The Return That Never Returned There is a moment, at every company, that I have seen unfold more times than I can count. It is the moment everyone in the room gets excited over the possibility of ROI. Notice how I said possibility and not reality. That is very…
-
The AI Series (#2) – Are You Ready for AI?
AI Is Ready For You – Are You Ready for AI? In life, the more complex the task, the more prepared you need to be to approach it. The more you know, the more insight you gain, the more fine-tuned your skillset, the more equipped you will be to meet the challenge. And that is…
HQ Partners Consulting