Author: Sebastian Dürr

LI AI Governance - Three frameworks for AI Governance in SMEs and Family Businesses

Three Frameworks for AI Governance in SMEs and Family Businesses

In the first part of this series, we examined why AI governance is a leadership responsibility [AI governance starts in the boardroom]. This article addresses...

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AI Governance Starts in the Boardroom, Not in IT

AI Governance Starts in the Boardroom, Not in IT

According to Bitkom, the proportion of German businesses actively using AI has more than doubled within a single year, reaching 41 per cent [1]. At...

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AI Fatigue is not an individual problem it is a structural one

AI Fatigue Is Not an Individual Problem, It Is a Structural One

AI does not make everything better. Hand on heart: the following phenomena have become familiar to all of us, and we have either been irritated...

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AI Transformation - What Large Enterprises Are Experiencing – and What SMEs Can Learn from It

AI transformation: What Large Enterprises Are Experiencing – and What SMEs Can Learn from It

When large enterprises adjust their AI strategies, it is worth taking a closer look from an SME perspective. Not because family businesses and smaller organisations...

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Building AI Organisations, Not Running AI Experiments. 64 per cent of AI-using SMEs operate without a strategy. Why AI pilot projects fail and what the path to an AI-capable organisation looks like. URL slug: building-ai-organisations-not-running-experiments

Building AI Organisations, Not Running AI Experiments

Every day brings fresh AI announcements. Claude can now do this, ChatGPT can now do that. Organisations launch pilot projects, test agents, automate tasks or...

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Data quality and AI - FOMO, evidence, and why most organisations start at the wrong end

Data Quality and AI: FOMO, Evidence, and Why Most Organisations Start at the Wrong End

Anyone who has followed their LinkedIn or social media feed recently will almost certainly have encountered posts declaring data quality as the decisive success factor...

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Avoiding the AI Blindspot - Why process documentation is a critical prerequisite

Avoiding the AI Blind Spot: Why Process Documentation Is a Critical Prerequisite

The capabilities that artificial intelligence now offers are impressive. Beyond established applications such as drafting and refining text, AI can analyse large datasets in a...

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“AI is a leadership topic” has become a consensus statement, yet it is rarely thought through to its logical conclusion. Three recent studies demonstrate that AI usage changes the competencies of those who use it. Those who treat AI as a shortcut lose skills. Those who treat it as a sparring partner — asking questions, critically examining outputs, and maintaining their own cognitive effort - become measurably more competent. For business leaders, this has two implications: first, they need their own AI competence, not least to recognise which usage patterns within their organisation are productive and which are not. Second, they must lead by example rather than by decree. “AI is a leadership topic” only becomes concrete when senior leaders consciously set the direction.

Yes, AI Is a Leadership Task — But Not in the Way You Think

Why “AI is a leadership topic” only becomes true when business leaders practise what they preach: In LinkedIn posts, keynote speeches, and consulting pitches, one phrase...

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AI Signals, Early 2026: What We Know, What We Suspect, and Why Business Leaders Should Tell the Two Apart

AI Signals, Early 2026: What We Know, What We Suspect, and Why Business Leaders Should Tell the Two Apart

The AI discourse is loud, often driven by opinion, and the available data is heavily technical. The good news: that is beginning to change. Business...

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85 per cent of employees see no value-adding use case for AI – not because tools are lacking, but because imagination is. What the Imagination Gap means for SMEs.

The Imagination Gap – Why Imagination Is the Real Bottleneck for Successful AI Implementation

Anyone who regularly scrolls through LinkedIn will recognise the pattern: infographics explaining what a large language model is. Carousel posts listing the ten best AI...

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