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The Business Model Canvas Graveyard

The Business Model Canvas Graveyard

Artificial intelligence is delivering the killing blow to an already oversaturated market of knockoffs and copycats.

The Business Model Canvas Graveyard

Artificial intelligence is delivering the killing blow to an already oversaturated market of knockoffs and copycats.

A Map for Agentic Transformation

A Map for Agentic Transformation

Real agentic transformation requires navigating complex organizational tensions and contradictions that no simple ladder can capture.

A Map for Agentic Transformation

Real agentic transformation requires navigating complex organizational tensions and contradictions that no simple ladder can capture.

The Agentic Organization

The Agentic Organization

Humans are the bottleneck. Agentic organizations separate AI workflows from human processes, like ring roads that bypass city centers. Dual-lane processes should prevent intellectual traffic jams.

The Agentic Organization

Humans are the bottleneck. Agentic organizations separate AI workflows from human processes, like ring roads that bypass city centers. Dual-lane processes should prevent intellectual traffic jams.

It's Not Always Cold in the True North

It's Not Always Cold in the True North

AI cannot interpret corporate bullshit or fill gaps with common sense like humans do.

It's Not Always Cold in the True North

AI cannot interpret corporate bullshit or fill gaps with common sense like humans do.

The Future of Consulting

The Future of Consulting

The consulting industry is heading for the same seismic disruption that transformed travel agencies over the past two decades.

The Future of Consulting

The consulting industry is heading for the same seismic disruption that transformed travel agencies over the past two decades.

The Four Tensions of Sociotechnical Systems

The Four Tensions of Sociotechnical Systems

Every team faces the same fundamental question: How do you balance freedom with coordination, spontaneity with discipline, performance with agility, and self-actualization with shared purpose?

The Four Tensions of Sociotechnical Systems

Every team faces the same fundamental question: How do you balance freedom with coordination, spontaneity with discipline, performance with agility, and self-actualization with shared purpose?

Jurgen Appelo

"Maintenance is how the universe curbs productive people."