Eminence
Macro business strategy × the frontier of applied AI
Article 14Education & learning
When Answers Become Cheap, What Should Education Teach?
AI is making answers easier to produce, while making the ability to judge, question and learn more consequential. Education has to respond to both.
Attempt → feedback → independent understanding
Article 13AI & technology
A product cannot improve what it cannot see
Connect the promise on your website to the value your product delivers.
Promise → useful result → learning → improvement
Article 12Strategy & business
The creator economy has a business design problem
Build a business that can capture the value of creative work.
Design the deal → test the offer → retain value
Article 11Markets & society
The AI Future May Be Decided by Who Gets Access
Safety, competition and the future of work all turn on who can use the most capable systems.
Access → opportunity → shared participation
Article 10AI & technology
SaaS Is Dead. The Workflow Is the Product.
What changes when a business owns the workflow it needs.
Strategy → implementation → evidence → next decision
Article 09Strategy & business
Small, Sharp, and Hard to Kill
Ten things startups need to survive the fall 2026 market, and why the next winning team may be a partnership.
Customer need → evidence → economics → complementary partners
Article 08Strategy & business
Playing to Win When Everyone Has AI
Roger Martin’s strategy framework still holds. AI changes where advantage comes from, and how quickly the assumptions behind it need to be tested.
Winning ambition → choices → capabilities → learning
Article 07Markets & society
PESTEL after AI: the weather is changing while we build
Six lenses for the forces changing around your business.
External forces → tailwinds + headwinds → strategic choices
Article 06People & work
The factory is the system
Design the handoffs, checks and learning around the model.
Handoffs → checks → stop points → learning
Article 05Strategy & business
The service company of the future will build some of its own software
Turn repeatable delivery into a capability the whole team can use.
Client context → shared workflow → human review → reusable learning
Article 04Strategy & business
Why Founders Make the Best Consultants for Other Founders
Find the decision underneath the requested deliverable.
Requested deliverable → underlying decision → test → next move
Article 03Strategy & business
We are using AI to make yesterday cheaper
Cost savings can fund the next move. What will you make possible?
Efficiency → freed capacity → new options → evidence
Article 02AI & technology
The Problems Progress Creates
Why the speed of play is accelerating.
Capability → new problem → solution → new capability
Article 01Strategy & business
How do you capitalize on opportunity at the speed of play?
As the distance between idea, build and feedback collapses, advantage shifts to teams that can recognize what matters, test it cheaply and act on what they learn.
Idea → test → evidence → next move