Ahh! The wildly misleading innovation theatre. Be WARNED! It makes sense though, what is exciting & motivating in the approvals office might not be so great in our business as usual (BAU)… or as I sharply say, what looks good on a LinkedIn feed often is straight out silly on a site! My go to example is the back-flipping robot that standing on a scaffold & is simultaneously throwing a tool kit at a human co-worker (seriously, google it, you’ll find the video from a reputable r

70x or greater Return on Investment?… Piss of ______!!! Just check out some of the many quotes from our last cohort "I came on this course today to basically expand my knowledge and understanding of AI and the agents that are potentially available. Within the first hour it had paid for this course ten times over and you look forward to the rest because, yeah it's just mind opening." -  Mitchell McGarry  McGarry, Managing Director,  Agonis Group “I was able to apply the learni

There is a deep disconnect between the emerging tech shepherds & those that could benefit from the use of the emerging tech that runs deep in the BAU of our heavy industries. The harsh (and all to often impossible for the office folk to accept) reality is (and strap in for a controversial point): → Not every computer on a site or in a plant is even connected. In fact, There are many plants that generate $300M+ annually that I have first hand been to that simply do NOT have a

Here’s what they don’t seem to get. No one cares & the more words the less meaning. I am sure that you have seen those emails, notes, pitches, presentations, memos, etc where the author has decided that you need to know their life story, every possible thought, every bit of context, every possible nuance to ever possible bit of related info. Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Blaise Pascal, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pliny the Younger, Cato, Cicero, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Frankl

A Gemini rendition of many a room that I have pitched to! No brainer?… No brains?… a stumble to nowhere! There is an invisible wall holding you back, that’s real! There is also a way to get past it! But first, let’s dive into what’s driving it. The basic emotions Psych 101 time! Psychologists often describe six basic human emotions  that appear across cultures: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust , a framework popularised by Paul Ekman (google him, maybe gr

Why is it that some of the most promising academic projects and emerging tech startups seem to fail when hit with the cold water of reality? There is a gap, a misalignment of goals, a failure to communicate, something… I think it is because the best solution in the eyes of the idealistic creator is often not adoptable into the business as usual of the potential user business. As I talk about in my post The challenge isn’t technical . I completely get it, my VERY technical bac