Short pieces from High Impact Group on AI strategy, defensibility and the structural shifts reshaping commercial, government and not-for-profit organisations.
Most organisations are running AI as a project. It is not one. In three years the organisations in front will be the ones that moved with a clear view of where they were going, not the ones that moved fastest.
The engineering moat is gone. Four moats remain, and they are not equal. Which moat you hold decides whether you stay defensible.
The frameworks that organise commercial AI strategy break down in government. There, legitimacy is the moat that capability cannot buy.
As AI restructures the sector, technology stops being a moat for not-for-profits. Mission is the one that lasts.
Consulting and integration giants built trillion-dollar businesses on closing the gap between generic software and real organisations. AI is now closing it for them.
Generic platforms that needed armies of integrators sit in the most exposed part of the software industry, and the squeeze starts there.
AI has broken the link between headcount and output. Work you would once have hired for now runs as a workflow, which changes how you build the team and who you hire next.
When building software cost millions, you had to accept the template. You do not anymore, now that the economic logic forcing businesses into sameness has collapsed.
For four decades, software made you change your business to fit the tool. When building costs fall, the specific way you work stops being an expensive problem and becomes your advantage.
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