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Christmas Future
Reading Time: 8 minutesChristmas Future – The Era of Cognitive Transformation 1. Introduction — The Acceleration to 2035 When I first wrote The Post of Christmas Future in 2014, the world still felt full of uncomplicated technological optimism. We pictured electric cars, self-driving systems, virtual reality training suites, 3D-printed homes, and an emerging [...]

The Post of Christmas Future 2035

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Christmas Past
Reading Time: 6 minutesTen Seismic Shifts in the Decade of AI and Uncertainty I. The Dickensian Frame: Looking Back to Christmas Past to Learn Forward Every December, reflection becomes ritual. It’s when leaders, like Scrooge before his ghosts, turn to the past not for nostalgia—but for truth. When I first wrote The Post [...]

The Post of Christmas Past – 2025 Edition

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Commercial Momentum
Reading Time: 11 minutesIntroduction: Why Commercial Momentum Is the Untapped Competitive Advantage Most organisations don’t fail because they lack strategy, talent, or ambition. They fail because they lose commercial momentum or didn’t have momentum in the first place. Momentum is the force that turns intent into impact. It is the difference between teams [...]

The A to Z of Commercial Momentum

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Digital Handoffs
Reading Time: 5 minutesDigital Handoffs: The Delivery Paradox While digital projects celebrate on-time delivery, we find the real threat to success lies in the handoffs—the critical transitions between teams where intent is diluted, context is lost, and the promised business value quietly leaks away. 70% of digital transformations fail to meet their objectives [...]

Digital Handoffs: Where Value is Lost

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A to Z of B2B CRM
Reading Time: 9 minutesBeyond Transactions to Transformation – B2B CRM For most enterprise and public sector organisations, the B2B CRM promise remains unfulfilled. It was meant to be the single source of truth for revenue growth; instead, it’s often a cumbersome reporting tool, a compliance checkbox, or a system plagued by distrust and [...]

The A to Z of B2B CRM – An Executive ...

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Project Rescue
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhen projects derail and when to move into Project Rescue Every leader has faced it: the project that starts with promise, burns through months of effort, and then stalls. Deadlines slip, costs spiral, and meetings feel more like crisis briefings than progress updates. In the private sector, that might be [...]

The A to Z of Project Rescue

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Reading Time: 15 minutesIntroduction In Part 1 of this series, we explored how to craft a digital transformation vision that truly inspires — one that speaks to every stakeholder by answering the question: “What’s in it for me?” But vision alone doesn’t deliver outcomes. Many organisations begin their transformation journey with optimism, board-level [...]

Leading Digital Transformation: From Vision to Reality

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Reading Time: 6 minutesYour guide to getting more from the world’s most talked-about AI assistant ChatGPT Introduction This A–Z guide highlights 26 top features of ChatGPT, explained in plain English. ChatGPT has quickly gone from curiosity to everyday tool — helping people write, analyse, code, and create at speed. But with so many [...]

A to Z of ChatGPT Top Features

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Reading Time: 6 minutesYour Guide to AI Concepts, Capabilities, and Practical Uses Introduction Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept — it’s here, shaping how we work, live, and make decisions.But with the jargon, hype, and complexity, it can be hard to separate the essentials from the noise. This A–Z guide gives [...]

A to Z of Artificial Intelligence

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Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes, the best ideas don’t arrive during office hours. They sneak up on you late at night, when the world quietens down, the emails stop pinging, and your brain finally gets the space to roam. That’s exactly where I found myself recently — staring down a problem, circling an idea, [...]

Burning the Midnight Oil with AI: A New Kind of ...

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Christmas Future, Business, Technology, Leadership
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn the third and last in the series of Think Oak’s Christmas blog posts – The Post of Christmas Future, let’s take a look at the next 15 years in Technology, Business and Leadership and see how they might have changed by 2030. (In case you missed Part 1 and Part [...]

The Post of Christmas Future

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