You can’t train your way out of the AI skills gap(CIO)

Teaching your team to use AI is great, but if you send them back into the same old slow meetings and approval loops, you’re just making broken processes move faster. Most enterprises I talk to say they have an AI skills gap. That sounds plausible right up until you look at what companies are doing. […]
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Best Practices for Integrating Machine Learning Models into Existing Applications (AIJ)

What if a high-performance machine learning model doesn’t work in practice? It’s not as rare as you might think. Researchers report that almost 70 to 80% of machine learning (ML) projects are not deployed in production due to a lack of planning, data, or integration. It’s not the model. It’s the process of integrating machine learning […]
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AI And The Future Of Work: No Skill Is Robot-Proof(Forbes)

Neuroscientist and AI researcher Vivienne Ming says we are measuring the wrong things, hiring for the wrong traits, and building AI that makes us less capable. The fix, she argues, is not more training—it is a different kind of human. Ming is author of Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People. She doesn’t speak […]
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This month in AI: How organizations can scale convergent technology(WEF)

Why SA needs an AI leader?(FC)

As South Africa was drafting policy papers and convening consultations on how to govern the technology of the future, something quietly extraordinary was happening in Singapore. There, Vivian Balakrishnan, the country’s Foreign Minister, was doing something that seemed at once futuristic and strangely inevitable: he was building an artificial intelligence version of himself. Not a […]
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New GIBS Article: Managing open strategy in public-private sector business model innovation: Closing to open and opening to close as intertemporal dualities By John D. Nicholson, Philip H. Coombes and Adam Lindgreen 

Abstract Approaches to the management of strategic openness in organizations remain poorly understood. This article presents a large-scale qualitative, longitudinal study into a pioneering public-private sector business model innovation in the UK. By synthesizing insights from literatures on open strategy, open innovation, and open business models, the article reveals the practices in establishing a public-private […]
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New GIBS Article: A Legacy of Brokering Entrepreneurial Tendencies: A Case Study By Mollie Painter, Daniel Hjorth and Gideon Pogrund

Abstract This paper explores how entrepreneurial legacies can have broader social impact beyond the identity of founders, the organization that they created, or their own philanthropic activity. Thus, we illustrate how, in the South African context, social entrepreneuring may be understood as the values-driven, relational brokering of societal legacies amongst a variety of entrepreneurs. At […]
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Why women leaders are ditching the old workplace rulebook—and winning because of it(FC)

For many years, women have been told that they needed to “step-up” to lead. You know the narrative—speak more assertively, be less emotional, less sensitive and toughen up. In essence, to “fit the mold.” The trouble is, that mold was never created with them in mind. It was built in an era where leadership equalled […]
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3 things to learn from the attention economy in 2026(FC)

How consumers allocate attention doesn’t stop at the storefront. The same behavioral shifts that define what audiences watch, buy, and care about are reshaping what employees expect, how teams build culture, and what leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Heading into 2026, three forces are defining the attention economy—a market where the scarce resource […]
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9 leaders on what they’d change about managing staff(FC)

Leadership and management lessons aren’t always figured out off the bat. Making some mistakes and realizing that what works for you doesn’t work for everyone else is valuable. It’s impossible to go back and change the past, but you can think through how you manage now and see if it’s still effective. We asked our Fast […]
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