Pilot purgatory · 6 min read
Your AI Pilot Didn't Fail. Your Org Chart Did.
The post-mortem on your stalled AI pilot will blame the model. The vendor. The data quality. The integration layer. The change plan.
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Pilot purgatory · 6 min read
The post-mortem on your stalled AI pilot will blame the model. The vendor. The data quality. The integration layer. The change plan.
Board pressure · 6 min read
Your board asked when you are hiring a Chief AI Officer. Your CFO asked what one costs. Your COO asked if you actually need one.
Board pressure · 6 min read
Your last board update had a slide with an adoption percentage on it. Somewhere underneath that number was a count: how many of your people logged into ChatGPT, or Copilot, or Gemini, at least once that month.
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