Browsing All posts tagged under »Phase 0«

Harvard Business Review Talks About Moving Authority to AI. My Advice: Only If You’ve Read the Override.

October 22, 2026

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When your best people override the AI, what do they know that the system doesn’t?

Before the AI Operating System Had a Name, It Had an Operating Record

October 16, 2026

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The market is assembling the AI operating system in 2026. The original framework was implemented in 1998.

Phase 0 Can Be Delayed. It Cannot Be Escaped: The Firm Fence Rules AI Deployments Keep Skipping

October 15, 2026

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Errors are inevitable. Caught at the right time, they are valuable. That is the purpose of firm fences.

Assessing Gartner’s Convergence With the Hansen Models™, 1998–2026

September 23, 2026

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The industry is converging on a question this archive has asked since 1998. Is your organization asking it yet?

When a Consumer Mindset Serves the Business World

September 16, 2026

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Does your AI initiative's success lurk in the shadows? If yes, what is your next step?

Two People Found the Same Gap From Opposite Directions. Here Is What Sits Beneath It.

September 13, 2026

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Why did Frank stop at the door in his CDO Magazine article?

Solving a 1998 Delivery Failure and a 2026 Traffic Anomaly With the Same Trace

September 6, 2026

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Trace backward from a failure and you find the cause. Map forward toward an outcome and you find failures of unknown origin after the fact.

Your AI Guardrails Are Road Cones

September 4, 2026

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Guardrails close on the output. Why don't they close on the operation?

Legacy Drag and Legacy Draft,

September 2, 2026

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Every technology era inherits the last one's unfinished business. Legacy Drag is what you inherit. Legacy Draft is what you choose.

Cisco Just Gave 90,000 People an Agent. The Architecture Is Not New — and the Hard Question Is Still Unanswered.

August 29, 2026

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The most important sentence about Cisco's 90,000-agent rollout came from Cisco.