The AI Operating Model for Higher Education
Two years of policy work on what students cannot do with AI. Not one line on what the admissions team can. Here is what an AI operating model looks like in a university.
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The AI Operating Model for Franchise and Multi-Site Operators
One promotion, forty versions of the artwork across the network, and nobody you can hold accountable. Here is what an AI operating model looks like in a franchise business.
The AI questions you’re not asking yet
Recently, I wrote about the questions regional CEOs keep asking me about AI. Where do I start? How do I stay in control? Will it replace my team? Honest questions from leaders at the start of something. Then I saw a post from Alex Lieberman, the Morning Brew co-founder who now runs Tenex, an AI … Read more
The questions regional CEOs keep asking me about AI
Most weeks, I’m across the table from a CEO somewhere in the Gulf. Real estate, financial services, government-adjacent businesses. A year ago, the AI conversation was polite and abstract: what is this, and does it matter? Now it’s sharper, and a bit more uncomfortable: what do I actually do about it, and am I already … Read more
Does Canva Store Data Outside the UAE? What Your IT Team Actually Needs to Know.
Your marketing team has found a platform that solves a real problem. They want to roll it out across the business. They bring it to IT and procurement for sign-off. Within 24 hours, the question arrives: where does this platform store our data? Is it hosted in the UAE? The deal stalls. The platform goes … Read more