I joined HFS Research in New York for The Services-as-Software Economy: Disrupt or Be Disrupted conference where I delivered a keynote on AI Business Transformation: Optimized + Innovative AI on behalf of ServiceNow. In a room full of business and technology leaders leading AI investments, I asked everyone to press pause on conversations limited to use cases, automation and efficiency gains, and siloed pilots that optimize yesterday’s work. We are entering a phase of AI where the conversation has to…
AI Agents Won’t Transform Work Until Humans Trust the Work
I’m honored to be included in The Wharton Blueprint for AI Agent Adoption, a new report from Wharton Human-AI Research and Science Says that explores one of the most important questions facing every leader right now: if AI agents are becoming so capable, why aren’t more people ready to trust them with meaningful work? The answer isn’t just technical. It’s human. The report makes clear that agent adoption is moving from a technology challenge to a psychological one. People may…
The AI Dilemma’s Innovator: Why AI Makes You Faster While Still Falling Behind
Every company is now asking some version of the same question…how do we use AI to become more efficient? It’s the right question. But it’s not the only question. If we use AI only to automate existing processes, reduce costs, and accelerate yesterday’s work, we may become faster versions of who we already were. That might improve productivity, but it won’t guarantee relevance. The bigger opportunity is to use AI to challenge the assumptions that define the business itself: what…
AI Is Changing How We Think, Work, and Lead; What We Do Next Is Up to Us
I’ve spent much of my career studying how technology changes people and how those changes eventually reshape markets, organizations, and culture (or how it needs to). AI is accelerating and stressing that cycle in ways and speeds I have not seen before. This is why I keep one question close by. Are we using this moment to rethink what is possible, or merely to make what already exists faster, cheaper, or more efficient? It’s something to think about… When the…
AI Is Eating the World. Are We Ready to Think Bigger?
AI is often compared to the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, or even electricity. At first, those comparisons can sound dramatic, even inflated. But they are not entirely wrong. Fire did not change the world simply because it existed. Electricity did not transform civilization simply because someone discovered it. The wheel did not alter the trajectory of humanity simply because it rolled. These were not just inventions. They were enabling forces. Their potential and ultimatle power came…
The Unreleased X Trailer: Designing Experiences People Love in the Age of AI
More than a decade ago, I created this trailer for my book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. For reasons I can no longer remember, I never released it. It became a lost trailer from the digital era. Yet the idea behind it may be even more important in the AI era. At the time, customers were changing faster than the experiences companies designed for them. Digital, mobile, and social technologies were reshaping how people communicated, discovered, purchased, shared,…
The Four AI Cultures Defining the Future of Business at Different Speeds and Scale
We proudly launched ServiceNow Futures this year. We are a future-forward team of futurists, innovation officers, and futures engineers inside ServiceNow. Our mission is to help customers “see further and act sooner.” As part of our charter, we translate emerging signals and trends into actionable insights for C-Suites. Our research, ourthinking, our customer-facing work leads to executive-level frameworks, reports, webinars and workshops, everything business and technology leaders need to guide the decisions they need to make now for a world…
In an Era of AI Darwinism, ROI Now Represents Return on Intelligence
You can’t cut your way to growth. You can’t automate your way to innovation. AI is forcing every organization to reveal what it really believes about people. Do leaders see AI as a way to shrink the company into a more efficient version of yesterday? Or do they see it as a way to expand the organization’s capacity to learn, imagine, decide, create, and grow? That is the fork in the road. I call this moment AI Darwinism: the new…
Infinite, My Latest Book, is Now Available and I Would Love for You To Read It 🥳
The moment this box arrived, I immediately remembered the moment when this book was just an idea shared in an email. It’s all now very real and I wanted to share this moment (and box break) with you! Today, I’m proud, grateful, and honestly a little emotional to share that my new book with Dave Wright, Chief Innovation at ServiceNow, Infinite: How Visionary Leaders Transform Today’s Businesses into AI-Forward Companies, is now available. We would love your support and invite…
Infinite, My Next Book, is Now Available for Pre-Order
Surprise! 🎉 After writing Mindshift, I took time to listen, learn, and rethink what leadership now requires. I’m excited, humbled, and honestly grateful to share what comes next. Introducing, Infinite: How Visionary Leaders Transform Businesses into AI-Forward Companies. Releasing on June 23rd, Infinite introduces the concept of the “Infinite Company,” a new model for organizations built to thrive in the age of AI. Please pre-order on Amazon. Three years ago, I joined ServiceNow as Head of Global Innovation. More recently,…