Everyone Has an AI Strategy
April 16, 2026Visit any technology company's website - or increasingly, any company at all - and measure the time to first AI mention. A few seconds, usually...
Continue Reading →The 90-Day Window
April 10, 2026Michael Watkins' influential book "The First 90 Days" made that timeframe a fixture of leadership thinking. Most people read it as a runway: time to listen before you act. But there's a cognitive reason that window matters...
Continue Reading →The first 30 days
March 2, 2026There's a temptation when you step into a new leadership role to make your mark early: reorganise the team, introduce a new process, signal that change has arrived...
Continue Reading →Sketch or finished design? The question at the heart of AI coding quality
February 18, 2026A designer’s sketchbook is a beautiful mess: half-formed ideas, crossed-out attempts, margins full of notes. Nobody expects it to be a finished product...
Continue Reading →AI Adoption Isn’t a Tool Rollout. It’s a Change Programme.
February 9, 2026If you treat AI coding tools like any other dev tool rollout, you're going to hit a wall....
Continue Reading →Focus: The Most Underrated Capability in Modern Business
February 1, 2026It's one of the most underrated aspects of modern business. Everyone talks about strategy, innovation, execution. But focus?...
Continue Reading →Build vs. Buy: A Framework for Growth-Stage Companies
January 26, 2026It's a common question that gets asked as a company is growing: should we build this or buy off-the-shelf software...
Continue Reading →Leadership lessons from volunteer officials
May 21, 2025Andy Kelk has a background in software engineering and is a senior manager with the Wesfarmers group, looking after digital assets across the group’s retail businesses – it’s a leadership role Kelk takes seriously...
Continue Reading →FFS I am not a resource
February 10, 2019If you’ve ever worked in a big organisation (I have) then you’ve probably heard the “r” word used when really the speaker was talking about a person or people. Something like “we have a new resource starting next week”...
Continue Reading →Don't just build the thing right - Build the right thing
December 12, 2016Right now I’m a CTO but I’ve had many different roles in different companies and different countries. I’d like to take you through a portion of my career and what I’ve learned along the way....
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