Research, practical frameworks and guidance for businesses, filed under Leadership teams.
Boards, investors and banks want four answers about AI: what you use it for and who owns it, what it has changed, what went wrong, and what you need decided. Here is the one-page Quarter Page template, with a worked example, backed by what boards actually do.
Buyers now ask suppliers how they use AI, in tenders and customer questionnaires. This guide compares how UK, Australian and US buyers ask, and gives you the Buyer's Five: the five questions to answer in writing before a form arrives.
When someone resigns, the first question is whether AI can cover the seat. The evidence says AI is reshaping roles faster than it removes them. Use the Backfill Test: four questions to answer in writing before you refill, redesign or close the role.
Managers are the people employees turn to when AI use gets awkward, and most do not feel ready. Run the Friday Four: a fifteen-minute weekly conversation, a copyable sheet and a table of what to settle yourself or send to the owner.
Business owners often try AI on the work that looks impressive while their own backlog holds everyone up. Here is the Waiting-On-Me Rule, a five-day audit sheet, and a worked example for choosing where to begin.
AI can help with hiring, but the risk starts when it ranks, scores or rejects people. Draw the Sort Line, name an owner for every step below it, and copy the hiring sheet and candidate notice.
Most owners do not know what AI training to buy. Run the Gap Test on one job: is the gap skill, permission, time or judgment? Then fill in a one-page brief and decide what to train, fix or skip.
Most surveys count how many businesses use AI. None count how deeply your own team does. This ten-minute setup and two-minute conversation check, with a copyable sheet, shows whether your team's AI use is deep or only widespread.
Headcount stays flat when a team starts using AI, so nobody thinks the job changed. This guide gives you the Core and Margin Rule and a one-hour role review sheet you can copy for every role in your business.
Family firms adopt AI faster than they decide who answers for it. Here is a rule for splitting owner decisions from manager decisions, a decision rights sheet you can copy, and a worked example for a hypothetical 40-person firm.
A business AI audience is split between firms already using AI and firms that have not started. Here is how to choose a keynote speaker who gives both halves a next step: five questions to ask, which kind of speaker suits which slot, and a one-page brief you can copy.
Most small businesses will start the new year with AI in their people's browser tabs and nowhere in their plan. Here is what a one-page AI plan should hold, and the test every line must pass before it goes in.
