Data leaders need to be braver and bolder than before
Most companies are still thinking too small about AI. In this article, Josie West, Chief Innovation Officer at FOIL, explains why data and technology leaders should look beyond productivity tools, what our award-winning work with Welsh Water taught her about context, and why it is time to be bold.
Keeping hiring human: Reflections with Josie West, Chief Innovation Officer
Josie West, FOIL's Chief Innovation Officer, joined a Frazer Jones panel on keeping hiring human in the age of AI. She reflects on why tool usage is not business value, how AI is creating more noise in hiring, and why leaders must separate personal productivity from organisational change.
Traditional data and AI strategy is dead. But what replaces it?
Most AI strategies are technically sound and strategically hollow. They answer what to build, but never ask what the business needs to become. FOIL's Mish Naik argues that the real work sits in three layers most programmes skip entirely: operating model design, workforce transition, and adoption architecture.