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AI is moving faster. Who will prepare your organisation?
Preparing people to work with AI agents: practical steps, three decision scenarios and a downloadable worksheet.
Guide and decision workshop
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An app in a day.
Who will maintain it for five years? Opportunities and risks of low-code, no-code and building with AI.
Analysis and interactive model
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AI companies warn. How I read it.
A personal assessment of safety communication from Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX/xAI: separating risk disclosures, commercial interests and safeguards.
Opinion and communication analysis
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AI · Safety · IT leadership
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Where is your IT budget heading?
A free IT budget model: plan, actuals, commitments and forecast. XLSX template, PL/EN example, cost allocation and CSV import from ERP exports.
Guide and downloadable model
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We bought AI. What now?
How can AI licences lead to a better way of working? Leadership accountability, outcome measurement and a free AI use case assessment record.
Guide and downloadable record
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AI without the chaos
Start with tools and data, then rules and a pilot. A practical plan for organising AI use in a company, with downloadable materials.
Guide
- For boards and companies
Business goals, IT priorities
Six steps from a business objective to the IT team’s work, with an outcome owner, a decision record and measures agreed before change begins.
Guide
- For employers and recruiters
- For boards and companies
Choosing an IT director
Questions for the board and the candidate, evidence of responsibility and an assessment scorecard. First agree the outcomes the new IT Director will own.
Guide
- For employers and recruiters
Will AI pay off?
Faster work is the start of the calculation. Cash benefits, total costs and timing determine whether it pays off.
Guide
- For boards and companies
A faster Dynamics AX
The average runtime of 63 measured AX batch jobs fell from 58 min 21 s to 13 min 9 s. I explain the audit, configuration tests, changes and measurement limitations.
Project case study
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An IT director’s first 100 days
What to agree with the board and team: authority, business continuity, priorities and progress. A proposed plan with decisions, owners and evidence.
Guide
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- For employers and recruiters
IT as a business partner
How can IT work more effectively with the business? Seven changes to decisions, workflow and accountability, without automatically duplicating specialist roles.
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Free resources 10
An IT budget model and practical documents for hiring an IT leader and organising AI use. See what each resource helps with and download it for free.
AI in business · ZIP, 29 KB · PL/EN
AI use case assessment record
Blank template and hypothetical example in PL/EN. Ownership, measurement, data, costs and decisions on continued use. Locally editable HTML and Markdown.
Read how to make the decision →IT budgeting · ZIP, 741 KB · PL/EN
IT budget: plan, actuals and forecast
PL/EN XLSX templates and examples, guides, local CSV importer, company branding and migration export.
How to use the model →AI in business · PDF, 66 KB
AI use policy
Adapt rules for AI use and data sharing to your organisation.
AI in business · XLSX, 22 KB
AI tools register and risk assessment
Record the tools in use and structure the assessment of their use cases.
IT recruitment · DOCX, 40 KB
Brief with the board
Agree on expectations for the IT director before starting recruitment.
IT recruitment · DOCX, 41 KB
Interview guide
Prepare questions for an interview with an IT director candidate.
AI in business · PDF, 99 KB
AI supplier assessment checklist
Review data, security and service terms before choosing a supplier.
AI in business · PDF, 68 KB
AI pilot charter
Record the objective, budget, measurements and decision criteria before the pilot starts.
IT recruitment · DOCX, 39 KB
Reference conversation
Structure questions for people who have previously worked with the candidate.
IT recruitment · XLSX, 18 KB
Candidate assessment scorecard
Compare candidates against a shared set of criteria.
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