Archive | AI CIO

Oct 24, 2026

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10 min read

The Bottleneck Before the Specification

Better specifications begin with better decisions

John Willis

Oct 17, 2026

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4 min read

Finding The Practitioner Voice

Explaining Systems Through the People Who Live in Them

John Willis

Oct 10, 2026

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8 min read

💡 The New Bottleneck Is Ideation

The next revolution in software delivery isn't about writing code faster. It's about learning what is worth building.

Aug 22, 2026

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11 min read

💡Move 78: Why Humans Need to Stay on the Loop

The human advantage lies beyond finding the answer

Aug 8, 2026

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8 min read

💡 The Roads Not Taken

A Thought Exercise on Counterfactual Regret and Organizational Learning

Jul 25, 2026

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7 min read

💡 Are OKRs Enough?

Goals and metrics matter, but they are not a substitute for systems thinking.

William Willis, +1

Jul 11, 2026

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3 min read

💡 Not Another Jevons Paradox Article

Why history suggests AI will expand knowledge work more than it replaces it.

John Willis

Jun 2, 2026

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4 min read

💡AI Token Whiplash

Corporate AI strategy has officially entered its whiplash era

John Willis

May 30, 2026

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5 min read

💡Business Value in the Age of AI

Why AI success is about value, not usage

John Willis

May 23, 2026

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6 min read

💡AI Slop Is Really About Judgment

The Erosion of Accountability, Ownership, and Trust

John Willis

May 16, 2026

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8 min read

💡Asking Better Vendor Questions

Guide for Evaluating AI and Agentic Systems in the Enterprise

John Willis

May 9, 2026

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4 min read

💡 AI Isn’t Failing; Execution Is

A bad system will beat a good agent every time

John Willis

May 2, 2026

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8 min read

💡 The Lesson From The Coal Mines

The AI J-Curve And Sociotechnical Thinking

John Willis

Apr 18, 2026

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3 min read

💡AI Boom And Burnout

Are We Headed Toward Another Burnout Cycle with AI?

John Willis

The Bottleneck Before the Specification

Finding The Practitioner Voice

💡 The New Bottleneck Is Ideation

💡Move 78: Why Humans Need to Stay on the Loop

💡 The Roads Not Taken

💡 Are OKRs Enough?

💡 Not Another Jevons Paradox Article

💡AI Token Whiplash

💡Business Value in the Age of AI

💡AI Slop Is Really About Judgment

💡Asking Better Vendor Questions

💡 AI Isn’t Failing; Execution Is

💡 The Lesson From The Coal Mines

💡AI Boom And Burnout

Work Smarter, Not Harder with AI