The Future of AI: Separating Myths from Reality
The holy grail of AI, the pinnacle of human achievement, the ultimate weapon, our future master, and the end of the world as we know it. Is that plain enough? Don’t Panic… yet. In the […]
Transforming Citizen Engagement in Digital Government
Because the digital landscape is evolving so rapidly, the concept of digitising government services has reached a crossroads. Where we used to think about what’s worked before, we now have a tougher question to consider: […]
Harnessing Sovereign AI for New Zealand’s Economic Growth
Unless you live under a rock you will be familiar with “consumer AI”, be it ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney or even the older and somewhat stupider Siri and Alexa. For most people this is the […]
The Future of Efficient Government: Introducing Digital Advocates
Have you ever found yourself lost in a maze of government websites, filling out form after form, only to realise you’ve missed a crucial document or deadline? I certainly have, and I’m sure I’m not […]
Robotic Process Automation in Plain English
The robots are coming! Be warned, they will automate our jobs, and they will take work away from us. But wait, if the office of the future is full of robots doing our jobs, who […]
Neural Networks in Plain English
If you Google ‘neural networks’ you’ll find millions of articles explaining how Naive Bayesian regression is used to drive reverse propagation across hidden layers of artificial neurons, with cool pictures of lots of circles connected […]
Neural organizations
What is the optimal business process for delivering a disruptive product that has never been made before? That question is like asking Ikea to write assembly instructions for an item of furniture that hasn’t yet […]
In very plain English: Blockchain is not Bitcoin.
I sat through a presentation by one of the industry’s leading experts on blockchain, and was shocked that he constantly confused the audience by talking about blockchain and bitcoin as if they were the same […]
Digital in plain English
Emerging technology is coming at us thick and fast. IoT, augmented reality, neural networks, big data, robotic process automation, deep learning, analytics, wearables, blockchain, bots, and digitalisation. This field is becoming so complex that even for the […]
Blockchain in plain English
Unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, you would have heard about blockchain, and chances are someone has told you it will change the world and be the downfall of banks (or similar grandiose claims). Unless you are part of the 1% that understands what blockchains are and how they work you are probably at a loss as to what all the fuss is about (if you are part of that 1% then please forgive the brutal simplification of the concept that I’m about to provide).
In Plain English 