RcircoWhere Could AI Create Value?
Business Before Technology
A technology decision is only as good as the business question behind it. Start with the objective, the constraint and the cost of the current situation.
Insights
Clear Thinking for Better AI Decisions.
Writing intended to help business leaders ask better questions before committing to AI software, implementation or internal change.
02Featured Insight
03Explore by Business Question
Start from the question you are trying to answer.
Where Could AI Create Value?
Business Before Technology
A technology decision is only as good as the business question behind it. Start with the objective, the constraint and the cost of the current situation.
Why Do Leaders and Employees See Different Problems?
Evidence Before Recommendations
A recommendation without documented evidence is an opinion. The evidence should be visible to the people who must act on it.
Where Is Work Breaking Down?
Diagnose Before You Automate
Automating a workflow that has not been diagnosed tends to move the problem rather than remove it.
What Should Stay Human?
Never Automate Uncertainty
Where the rule is unclear, the exception frequent, or the judgment consequential, the honest answer is to keep a person in the decision.
What May the Opportunity Be Worth?
A Tool Is Not a Business Case
A demonstration shows capability. A business case requires cost, value, assumptions and confidence—stated plainly.
04Industry Briefs
Organized by industry, structured around four categories.
Briefs are published progressively. Each one follows the same four-part structure so a reader can compare industries without re-learning the format.
Accounting Firms
Market Developments
Changes in the market environment that may affect where value is created or lost.
Workflow Problems
Recurring patterns of friction observed within a specific type of work.
AI Opportunities
Roles AI may plausibly play, stated alongside their requirements and limits.
Adoption Risks
Conditions that make adoption unwise, premature or difficult to govern.
Content for Accounting Firms is in preparation. Published briefs will appear here in this structure.
05Rcirco Point of View
- 01Business Before Technology
- 02Evidence Before Recommendations
- 03Diagnose Before You Automate
- 04Never Automate Uncertainty
- 05A Tool Is Not a Business Case
06Latest Insights
Published in publication order.
The list below reflects the point-of-view themes currently prepared for publication. Dates, authors and full articles are added as each piece is published.
- 01Point of View
Business Before Technology
A technology decision is only as good as the business question behind it. Start with the objective, the constraint and the cost of the current situation.
- 02Point of View
Evidence Before Recommendations
A recommendation without documented evidence is an opinion. The evidence should be visible to the people who must act on it.
- 03Point of View
Diagnose Before You Automate
Automating a workflow that has not been diagnosed tends to move the problem rather than remove it.
- 04Point of View
Never Automate Uncertainty
Where the rule is unclear, the exception frequent, or the judgment consequential, the honest answer is to keep a person in the decision.
- 05Point of View
A Tool Is Not a Business Case
A demonstration shows capability. A business case requires cost, value, assumptions and confidence—stated plainly.