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Applied AI, IT governance, managing consultants.
- An AI redid our consulting engagement. Who would have defended the document in front of the client? An AI rebuilt the deliverable of an engagement billed at tens of thousands of euros in a few hours, and the result was good. What clients really buy is someone who can hold their ground the day they challenge it.
- Shadow IT has become uncountable. What if we stopped the census campaigns? Taking a census of a population of tools that is exploding no longer makes sense. What regains control of shadow IT is not one more control: it is an official fast lane, opened before the workaround becomes the shortest path.
- TradeLens was a good decision. And it failed. And that's okay. TradeLens tracked 70 million containers before shutting down in 2022. That didn't make it a bad decision — and confusing the outcome with the decision is the bias that makes our IT post-mortems useless.
- How to build your 2nd Brain, a tutorial after 100 hours of deployment A hundred summer hours spent building my second brain, starting by writing the rubric that says what such a system must produce. The journey, the setup, and the score: 20 out of 30.
- Self-assessment of an AI-augmented second brain — standalone protocol A measurement protocol in seventeen use cases, to find out what an AI-assisted personal knowledge setup can really produce — and what you should definitely not build.
- The AI Act for those who haven’t read it (and don’t plan to) What the European regulation really says. And what remains unclear.
- Burnout 2× higher than before Covid: why the numbers don’t change practices Since 2020, the same chart keeps going up. Every year a new barometer, a new record, a new right-to-disconnect charter. The problem…
- The day your business delivered in 3 days what your IT delivered in 3 months… and what you… From the triggering incident to the target organization: an IT transformation story in four acts.
- Free access to knowledge never taught anyone anything Why the AI revolution widens the gap between those who understand and everyone else.
- Everyone a developer with AI in 2025, really? With zero technical knowledge, here is how I set out to build a web application with AI agents
- Authors, is your end near? At a time when simple prompts can write novels, is it still worth the effort to write?
- Which ChatGPT user are you? Here are the 5 ways to use it From novice to expert, the 5 levels nobody explained to you
- No, ChatGPT bullshit will not replace consultant bullshit Dear consultants, sleep tight: criticized as they may be, your services will always be needed
- The subtle art of… tracking IT costs When maturity goes hand in hand with complexity, then simplicity
- I tracked my activities every 15 minutes for 4 weeks: here is what I learned It all started a few months ago when one of my colleagues asked me how I managed to get involved in so many topics. He…
- Defining our company values: how we made them concrete How do you go from founding principles to written values, and then to lived practices?
- The subtle art of… building an IT budget Comparing 4 budgeting processes: when simplicity doesn’t necessarily mean agility
- Toward the end of consulting firms? In 2040, will there still be consultants?
- Can we work for pleasure? “Building a castle: a marvelous game or slave labor. It’s all in the way you go about it” — Fernand Deligny
- How to never forget what you read? 3 tips to read anywhere, anytime and never forget to most impactful passages that you read
- The COVID-19 killed expertise Welcome to a world where expertise and knowledge no longer have a place
- One simple rule to avoid self improvement traps Behind the idyllic picture of self improvement hides a much darker world. How to avoid falling into these traps?
- Would the government make a good Product Owner? What if we used agile principles to analyze the French government’s response to COVID-19?
- 4 fundamental problems to fix to make the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) model relevant SAFe is particularly appealing. But when you implement it in the field, you realize that the SAFe model is incomplete…
- Tell me: What are Objectives and Key Results (OKR)? Are OKR… Complex? Useful? Life Changing? Revolutionary? Overrated?
- I love Medium articles (a tutorial for writing and publishing on Medium) Who hasn't dreamed of building an audience and getting paid simply for writing, for being read, appreciated and shared?
- Why should we all stop reading and writing articles on LinkedIn? Had you noticed that in your LinkedIn feed, 1 post out of 4 is sponsored content?
- Tell me: What is management consulting? Consultant is the best job ever. But what does a management consultant do anyway?
- Leaving lockdown: how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the world before? Lockdown restrictions are starting to lift. It is time to take stock of the innovative practices that emerged during lockdown
- Performance reviews suck, here is why How to evaluate individual contributions in autonomous teams? Should we even keep evaluating individual contribution?
- When do Agile practices make little sense? Under which circumstances are agile practices relevant? Let’s talk about Agile, Lean and apple pies.