There are many parallels between James Watt’s challenges getting his steam engine built with those we face in helping Scottish AI companies succeed — At the Scottish AI Summit in March, I spoke about James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the modern steam engine. My talk received such great feedback that I wanted to share it more widely. Although originally aimed at a Scottish audience, what I say applies elsewhere too.

We’ve got a tech influencer to follow, a landmark sci-fi movie, a thought-provoking book, a fantastic podcast, and a video game-inspired series Spring has (finally) sprung, as it tends to do around this time of year, and with it comes my latest bloom of tech entertainment options for your annual…

Response to the UK Government’s 12-week consultation on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) — On 29 March 2023, the UK Government launched a 12-week consultation on the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). …

The tenth man…only he (or she) is digital. Do we want that? Or should the tenth man spot be reserved for a living, breathing person? Some senior leadership challenges are so hard to solve they might as well be the sky-scraping anti-zombie wall in World War Z. One such challenge…

Working smarter and not harder will only get most people so far in life, so my suggestion? Do both! — I’m not quite sure how, but the end of January is nigh. Even so…erm…Happy New Year. And welcome to my first blog of 2023. If − like a few friends and colleagues I’ve spoken to since Christmas celebrations gave way to Veganuary — you’re still in need of New Year’s…

Do not let your tech cravings go unsatisfied during this lazy time between Christmas and New Year. Read on for my top movies and shows (and an explanation for this dodgy subtitle). — Friends and followers, I wish you all a very merry betwixtmas. Now that we’ve finally wrapped Christmas like an awkwardly-shaped, family-squabble-filled present, it’s time for five decadent days of Olympic couch-potato-ing. …

This month, we’ve got something Westworld-adjacent, unearthly, Bechdel-Test-passing, faux, and borrowed from Gucci — Yeah yeah, I know we’re almost at the end of November. But if I’d nominated this blog as December’s tech content roundup, the inclusion of Christmas stuff would have been inescapable. And I flatly refuse to write about the festive season before I’ve even tucked into my first advent calendar…

More than just a trend, emojis are a powerful means of visual communication with real-world benefits in business, but we must use them carefully — How do people feel about the use of emojis in corporate communications? To answer this, I polled my LinkedIn and Twitter followers a couple of weeks back. Of 150 respondents across both platforms, 25% say they love the use of emojis in corporate comms, 46% believe only limited use is…

I like to pay it forward by buying colleagues’ coffee in the office cafe. Here’s what I mean and why EY is going a thousand steps further… — “What are the things you enjoy the most in the office?” my colleague Lorna Culpin asked in a recent LinkedIn post. …