AI Disruption and Partnership Strategy: A Guide for Technology Business Leaders
Whenever I speak or write about the impact of AI for technology business partnering, the question of workforce transformationarises. I often point to the 3-point impact of technological disruption with the arrival of electricity as a scaled public utility in the late 1800s. If you were a gas lamp lighter (as in the image above) […]
What’s in a Name? The Great AI Factory Rebrand
A guide for technology leaders navigating the industrial revolution that somehow forgot to involve any actual industry Shakespeare once pondered whether a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Clearly, the Bard of Avon never had to explain to his board why his data centre budget had mysteriously transformed into “AI factory investment” […]
The Regulatory Maze: How Britain’s Digital Reform agenda could reshape technology partnerships
New regulatory frameworks will lead businesses to rethink channel and alliance strategies Britain’s technology sector stands at a regulatory crossroads. TechUK’s latest report on digital regulation reform, published in May 2025, offers both promise and peril for technology companies whose success depends on intricate webs of partnerships, channels, and alliances. While the government’s pro-growth agenda […]
Lessons from History: The spark of innovation and the fire that follows
For the Exposition Universelle of Paris in 1900, artists were commissioned to produce a series of cigar box cards on the theme ‘En l’an 2000’ (Life in the Year 2000), examples of which can be seen in the image above. They conjured visions of motorised combat and submarine sport, communication by movies and remote dictation […]
Watching the Elephant
This article is an approximate transcript of my keynote presentation on ‘Technology and Innovation as Drivers for Growth’ at the recent IT Europa Growth Forum for the UK MSP community. “When I started planning this session it was already inevitable that I would have to address the topic of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), which I […]
From ‘Steam Coffins’ to Brunel’s ‘Great Western’
What the race to cross the Atlantic by steam power teaches technology partners about disruptive innovation. In today’s rapid-paced tech landscape, we often think disruptive innovation is unique to our era. However, the challenges faced by modern technology leaders echo those encountered two centuries ago when America launched its first transatlantic steamship. The story of […]