Vanessa Walker

The leadership team commissioned the AI readiness assessment eight weeks ago. Today is the readout. Twenty minutes in, the operating-model pillar comes up amber, and the COO wants it noted that the reorganisation lands next quarter. Two seats down, someone is already typing an email disputing the findings. Nobody has yet asked what amber means. … Read more

Forty minutes into the quarterly review, everything is going beautifully. Slide fourteen declares the company “AI-ready”. Three pilots live, one tool rolled out, a roadmap that colours in all of next year. Then a board member looks up from her notes. “Which of these has produced a measured outcome?” The slide does not change. The … Read more