AI Doesn’t Create Drift. It Accelerates It.

AI Doesn’t Create Drift. It Accelerates It.

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 11/08/2026

AI adoption exposes the undocumented decisions, conflicting expectations, and local workarounds already embedded in an organization, accelerating operational drift and eroding trust.

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Operating model redesigns expose how organizations handle risk

Operating model redesigns expose how organizations handle risk

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 07/08/2026

An operating model redesign changes more than structures and reporting lines. It creates a transition in which continuity, talent, and communication risks have to be managed while the organization is still expected to deliver. That makes the way an

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When the path from data to decision gets shorter

When the path from data to decision gets shorter

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 06/08/2026

Toyota’s global resource-allocation process depended on dozens of spreadsheets, large planning teams, manual reconciliation and multiple approval layers. The work took weeks. Toyota then replaced that process with an AI-mediated workflow that

The boundaries around an innovation shape what leaders can see

The boundaries around an innovation shape what leaders can see

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 31/07/2026

An organization decides to solve a business problem. A new product, process, or operating approach begins to take shape around that decision. Before implementation starts, though, another choice has already been made: the organization has defined

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