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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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Zoe Reinhardt

·3 min read
AI

NOW THIS IS SCRUM & AI - NEW ICON EDITION

Our philosophy at New Icon is people, process and technology and the Scrum Guide underpins our process and plays a major part of our approach to people. We want to break down how we use a guide from the 90’s relevant in a post-AI World, track by track. 

Each track takes a Scrum concept and translates it into the real delivery behaviours we apply as an AI-era systems integrator.

Track 01 |  Transparency beats intelligence

Scrum Value: Transparency

AI can produce answers, but delivery only works when the prompts, assumptions and outputs are transparent, auditable and understood by the entire

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