Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How can boards drive AI ROI?

15 Jul 2025 | Raoul-Gabriel Urma

Gaining clear oversight of people-focused AI metrics must be at the top of the agenda for boards as they look to improve AI outcomes and deliver ROI.

Deskilled by design? How L&D can help harness AI

09 Jul 2025 | Charlie Kneen

In aviation – like many other sectors - L&D needs to play a key role in driving the effective adoption of AI and helping to make organisations smarter, not dumber.

AI assessments skew recruitment processes

02 Jul 2025 | Management-Issues

AI assessments skew recruitment processes, new research suggests, because applicants try to please the algorithm to gain a better score.

Move beyond deployment to unlock AI's full potential

26 Jun 2025 | Management-Issues

The true value of AI is only being captured by the minority of companies that go beyond tool deployment to fully redesign their workflows, a new report argues.

The case for connection: reclaiming the human side of work

21 May 2025 | Sonya Alexander

As artificial intelligence redefines the workplace, we risk losing touch with the very interactions that underpin effective teams and resilient organisations.

Businesses face escalating risks from AI-driven cyberattacks

26 Mar 2025 | Management-Issues

Nearly nine out of 10 cybersecurity professionals report that their organisation has encountered an AI-driven cyberattack in the last year, a new survey has revealed.

CPOs: leadership in a challenging landscape

17 Mar 2025 | Emma Burrows

In an era of constant disruption, Chief People Officers must embrace AI, leadership agility and business strategy to drive workforce resilience and success.

British workers lacking AI skills

28 Feb 2025 | Management-Issues

New research suggests that British workers lack the confidence and skills to use AI, with 69% saying they don’t know how to use AI at work

Economic uncertainty and cyber threats are the key risks keeping executives awake a night

17 Feb 2025 | Management-Issues

The economy, cyber threats and talent challenges dominate list of critical near-term risks for boards and executives, a new survey has found.

Report calls for new politics of AI

07 Feb 2025 | Management-Issues

A new report by the IPPR reveals the significant impact generative AI is having on UK society, with up to 70 per cent of knowledge economy tasks at risk of being transformed by AI technology.

AI failings are about people, not tech

22 Jan 2025 | Management-Issues

With 80% of companies saying that AI tools don't deliver hoped-for benefits, new research argues that its the emotional reactions of employees towards AI that is the critical factor in its uptake.

The majority of audit professionals don't see AI as a threat

15 Jan 2025 | Management-Issues

The vast majority of audit professionals in the UK do not see AI as a threat to their jobs, a new survey has found.

Growth and talent issues top concerns for CFOs

10 Jan 2025 | Management-Issues

Attracting and retaining skilled talent and worries around top-line growth are the biggest CFO concerns for 2025, a new report suggests.

Garbage in, garbage out

06 Jan 2025 | David Livermore

Even the best AI tools display cultural bias. So without knowing how to write culturally intelligent AI prompts, it's easy to end up with content that is not quite right for your intended audience.

Generative AI can significantly boost the aptitude of knowledge workers

05 Sep 2024 | Management-Issues

Consultants using GenAI for data science work perform up to 49% better in certain tasks beyond their existing capabilities, according to new research by the BCG Henderson Institute.

Can AI be trusted as an impartial recruitment partner?

23 Jan 2024 | Dan Adeline

The introduction of AI into the recruitment process has the potential to upset the balance between process and people, undermining diversity and fairness.

Cyber leaders worry that AI will overwhelm cyber defences

25 Sep 2023 | Management-Issues

The overwhelming majority of cybersecurity leaders believe that AI in the wrong hands will outpace cyber defences, according to new research.

Cultural intelligence and competing with robots

23 Mar 2021 | David Livermore

The dystopian view of a future overrun by robots forgets that the human brain gives us some things technology cannot compete with, namely our ability to adapt and create.

A far more serious public health crisis

03 Nov 2020 | Rod Collins

As we struggle against the the Covid-19 pandemic, it's clear there is a far more serious public health crisis that has long been hidden in plain sight: a digitally primitive healthcare system.

A faster path to intelligence

13 Nov 2019 | Rod Collins

If AI applications can be designed as collective intelligence systems, they may be able to help us move past the rancid divisiveness and entrenched thinking that prevents us from solving our most pressing problems.