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Dolo Miah

·7 min read
AI

AI adoption in business: real examples, risks and lessons from UK leaders

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AI: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Over the last six months, I have had the privilege of sitting down - virtually and in person - with leaders from across UK industries: energy, utilities, construction, law, manufacturing, media, education, and beyond. Not to sell anything. Not to run a workshop. Just to have an honest conversation about where they are with AI adoption and implementation.

What I heard was revealing. Not because everyone was doing extraordinary things with AI (some were, some weren't), but because the honesty in those conversations cut through the noise that dominates most AI discourse

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George Barnes

·1 min read
Podcast

Future Thinking Episode 10 - Teaching Innovation with Dave Jarman

Future thinking episode 10 with Dave Jarman

I learned a lot in the latest episode of Future Thinking, and that’s not surprising considering I was talking to one of the UK’s leading educations in the world of innovation! This month’s guest was Dave Jarman, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol. 

I’d seen Dave through his TedX talk on why you should start a side project, and was really interested in exploring how he goes about teaching people to actually get better at innovating and using those skills to start and grow businesses. 

It gels with the idea that I’m trying to

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