Research & Insights
Executive Insights
Practical perspectives for Business Owners, CEOs, Board Directors, CIOs and senior leaders making consequential decisions about AI, leadership, governance and organizational change.
The aim is simple: help leaders understand what is changing, ask better questions, and make informed decisions without handing judgment over to the technology.
Start with the leadership questions
These selections focus on the decisions that sit with leaders personally: how to build fluency, how to use AI in your own work, how to challenge assumptions, and how to keep accountability with people.
Executive AI Fluency
“Borrowed IQ”: Why Every Leader Needs a Personal AI Council
Explore how AI can support preparation, research and judgment while the leader remains accountable.
Read on Substack →Responsible adoption
In Praise of the AI Skeptic
Use constructive doubt to test assumptions, question outputs and improve decisions.
Read on Substack →Critical Path
CEOs are falling behind
A conversation about what senior leaders need to understand and do as AI capabilities advance.
Watch on YouTube →Connect leadership judgment with enterprise choices
Executive fluency becomes more useful when it connects to strategy, governance, sponsorship and the way the organization creates value.
Enterprise strategy
There Should be No Separate AI Strategy
Consider AI and automation within enterprise strategy, investment choices and operating priorities.
Read on Substack →Executive sponsorship
Public Sector AI Sponsors: From AI Opportunity to Value
Understand the executive sponsor’s role in choosing useful work and proving public value.
Read on Substack →Whom we serve
Business Owners, CEOs & Board Directors
Explore the questions senior leaders need to work through as AI and automation affect strategy, governance and organizational change.
Explore executive support →Go from insight to practical work
If you want to connect these ideas to your own responsibilities, start with your leadership or move into the wider organizational system.
For the leader
Executive AI Fluency & Thought-Partnership
Use focused conversations to build practical fluency and work through the implications for your role, priorities and organization.
Explore Executive AI Fluency →For the organization
The Intelligent Organization™
Use a whole-organization framework to connect leadership, data, technology, delivery and people capabilities.
Explore TIO™ →Connect the ideas to the decision in front of you
Use the material independently, or bring a leadership, strategy or transformation question into a conversation with the Alliance.