Strategy

The 26%: what the companies actually making money from AI do differently

Google Cloud surveyed 2,403 executives and found a 26% cohort whose AI returns are accelerating year on year - and BCG independently landed on the same number. Meanwhile MIT says 95% of pilots die. Both are true, and the difference between the two groups is where they aim the technology, not how much they spend on it.

AI for the CEO and Managing Director: How to Implement It

A lot of the work in your business still runs through someone's hands, and that's where AI pays. In today's post I'm looking at why it has to be led from the top, and how I'd organise a small team to do it, with the 2026 evidence alongside.

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What Skills Are AI Companies Hiring For, and What Do the Jobs Tell Us About Their Strategy?

I pointed YubHub at 7,200+ job listings across the major AI labs and the hiring patterns reveal six completely different strategic bets. Anthropic is all-in on research. OpenAI reads like an enterprise SaaS company. xAI is hiring domain experts to teach Grok finance. Here's what the data shows.