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AI leadership starts with deciding what comes next
Stefan Buchman on what a fractional CTO is accountable for, the warning signs that data is not ready for AI, and where Microsoft Fabric fits.
When an AI fairness audit says "pass", can you trust the result?
A fairness audit can pass on one sample and fail on another. Joy explains VFR-Audit, research into verdict stability, and what its findings mean for responsible AI.
The Two Modes of AI Software Delivery
Lachlan Wright distinguishes AI assistance within an existing delivery process from redesigning the workflow around supervised agents. The starting point is where work waits, not how much code a tool can write.
Jev, OpenAI or Microsoft: which decision model should you use?
Lachlan Wright compares Jev, OpenAI Decisions and Microsoft-Decision-1 on business-style tasks, examining accuracy, latency, calculated cost and confident mistakes.
The Quiet Revolution: What AI Adoption Actually Looks Like on the Ground
Carl Lowenborg looks at the practical, human work behind AI adoption: choosing a worthwhile process, building trust and turning small improvements into lasting change.
Who Actually Owns Your AI Agents?
nexwave explores the identity, observability and accountability questions that determine whether enterprise AI agents can move from demo to production.
The Velocity Moat: Why “Forward Deployed” Engineering is the New Standard
Ram Vasudevan describes how experienced, cross-functional teams tackle delivery blockers together, and why access to the right expertise matters more than hierarchy.
The Great Divergence: Why AI is the Wave That Won't Wait
Justin Shagam explores the widening gap between AI experimentation and business outcomes, with a practical starting point in employee experience and business processes.
The Quiet Mechanics of Quality: How We Deliver at nexwave
nexwave sets out the consulting habits behind dependable delivery, from purposeful meetings and clear status reports to scope control, forecasting and shared records.
From Copilots to Agents: What Microsoft Ignite 2025 means for the next wave of AI at work
A look back at Microsoft Ignite 2025 and the shift from individual copilots to governed agents, unified data platforms and an operating model for AI at work.
Understand the AI cost of your game changing idea BEFORE the bill arrives
nexwave explains tokens, licensing, consumption and provisioned capacity, and how to model AI usage before committing to a platform or a budget.
Making Sense of AI: Right Tool, Real Value, Less Headache
nexwave explains how to match Microsoft AI tools to the problem, balance experimentation with governance, and measure whether the investment delivers value.