--- title: "Articles" description: My long-form pieces for directors and senior leaders, where I take a question on AI or emerging technology and work it all the way through. This is where the analysis and the frameworks live. canonical: https://mariothomas.com/blog/ --- ## Pages in this section - [The Principle of Least Intelligence](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-principle-of-least-intelligence/) - [Managers Own the Workflow](https://mariothomas.com/blog/managers-own-the-workflow/) - [The Supplier Grades the Customer](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-supplier-grades-the-customer/) - [Nothing Has to Leave the Building](https://mariothomas.com/blog/nothing-has-to-leave-the-building/) - [The Debugging Gap](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-debugging-gap/) - [EU AI Act Deferral: The Governance Test](https://mariothomas.com/blog/eu-ai-act-deferral/) - [The Unpriced Cost of AI Oversight](https://mariothomas.com/blog/unpriced-cost-ai-oversight/) - [Governing the Redeployment Dividend](https://mariothomas.com/blog/governing-the-redeployment-dividend/) - [Not Everything Needs AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/not-everything-needs-ai/) - [AI and the CEO](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-board-director-ceo/) - [The AI Sovereignty Trilemma](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-sovereignty-trilemma-reality/) - [AI and the CFO](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-board-director-cfo/) - [Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ontology-knowledge-graph-explainer/) - [AI and the Company Secretary](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-board-director-secretary/) - [Ethical AI: Values You Did Not Choose](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ethical-ai-inherited-values/) - [The Headroom Argument](https://mariothomas.com/blog/headroom-argument-ai-efficiency/) - [The Reasoning Gap](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-reasoning-gap/) - [AI and the Chair](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-board-director-chair/) - [The Appreciating Ledger](https://mariothomas.com/blog/cfo-appreciating-ledger/) - [Making Better Board Decisions](https://mariothomas.com/blog/maximum-fidelity-four-indicators/) - [Automated Reasoning for the Board](https://mariothomas.com/blog/automated-reasoning-explainer/) - [AI and the Director](https://mariothomas.com/blog/director-ai-governance-playbook/) - [The Great Remaking: The Diagnostic](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-great-remaking-board-diagnostic/) - [The Great Remaking: Fast Following](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-great-remaking-fast-following/) - [The Great Remaking: Four Dimensions](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-great-remaking-four-dimensions/) - [Understanding MCP](https://mariothomas.com/blog/model-context-protocol-explainer/) - [The Great Remaking](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-great-remaking/) - [When Employees Own The AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/personal-agent-economy/) - [From Consumer Agents to Enterprise AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/inference-migration/) - [Data as a Balance Sheet Asset for Boards](https://mariothomas.com/blog/data-invisible-asset/) - [AI Coding's Hidden Verification Premium](https://mariothomas.com/blog/vibe-coding-vs-classical-training/) - [The AI Talent Bifurcation](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-workforce-bifurcation/) - [The Redeployment Dividend](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-redeployment-dividend/) - [Five Forces Reshaping Board AI in 2026](https://mariothomas.com/blog/five-forces-board-ai-agenda/) - [The Year AI Grew Up](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-year-ai-grew-up/) - [The Return of Traditional AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/return-of-traditional-ai/) - [AI Infrastructure as Energy Infrastructure](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-energy-infrastructure-grid-actor/) - [The AI Maturity Mirage](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-maturity-mirage/) - [Minimum Lovable Governance Explained](https://mariothomas.com/blog/minimum-lovable-governance/) - [World Models: Predictive Intelligence](https://mariothomas.com/blog/world-model-ai-next-horizon/) - [The AI Accountability Gap](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-agency-accountability/) - [Agentic AI and the Compound Loop](https://mariothomas.com/blog/agentic-ai-compound-loop/) - [Understanding Agentic AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/agentic-ai-explainer/) - [AI Strategy: Coherent Actions](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-strategy-coherent-actions/) - [AI Strategy: Guiding Policy](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-strategy-guiding-policy/) - [AI Strategy: Diagnosis](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-strategy-diagnosis/) - [AI Strategy: Introduction](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-strategy-business-case-trap/) - [Next Steps After the AI Amnesty](https://mariothomas.com/blog/shadow-ai-amnesty-next-steps/) - [The Case for an AI Amnesty](https://mariothomas.com/blog/shadow-ai-amnesty-governance/) - [Bank Focus on AI Energy Constraints](https://mariothomas.com/blog/goldman-sachs-energy-diplomacy/) - [AI Sovereignty and Board Strategy](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-sovereignty-board-trilemma/) - [Solving the 95% AI Pilot Problem](https://mariothomas.com/blog/crossing-genai-divide-boardroom/) - [EU GPAI Code of Practice](https://mariothomas.com/blog/eu-gpai-code-board-strategy/) - [Creating Sustainable Value in the AI Era](https://mariothomas.com/blog/protecting-value-ai-era/) - [Measuring AI's Hidden ROI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-hidden-roi-cascade/) - [Transforming Tech Debt to Advantage](https://mariothomas.com/blog/agentic-ai-technical-debt/) - [AI CoE: Becoming Future Proof](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-future/) - [AI CoE: Scaling Beyond Pilots](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-pilot-production/) - [UK AI Sovereignty Thoughts for Boards](https://mariothomas.com/blog/uk-ai-sovereignty-energy/) - [AI CoE: Launching Your First 90 Days](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-launch/) - [AI CoE: Building Essential Capabilities](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-capabilities/) - [AI CoE: Structuring for Success](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-getting-started/) - [AI CoE: Mapping Multi-Speed Reality](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-mapping-reality/) - [AI CoE: Essential Functions](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-functions/) - [AI CoE: Why Boards Need One](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-coe-why-boards-need-one/) - [A Complete AI Framework](https://mariothomas.com/blog/complete-ai-framework/) - [AI Business Case Securing Buy-In](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-business-case-secure-buy-in/) - [AI Business Case Step by Step](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-business-case-step-by-step/) - [AI Business Case Opportunities](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-business-case-finding-opportunities/) - [AI Business Case Foundation](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-business-case-foundation/) - [AI Business Case New Thinking](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-business-case-new-thinking/) - [Building a Future-Ready AI Workforce](https://mariothomas.com/blog/workforce-upskilling-ai-era/) - [Implementing Decision Analytics](https://mariothomas.com/blog/implementing-decision-analytics/) - [Decision Analytics for the Board](https://mariothomas.com/blog/board-ai-decision-analytics/) - [AI Regulatory Guidance for Boards](https://mariothomas.com/blog/eu-ai-act/) - [Building your AI CoE](https://mariothomas.com/blog/building-ai-centre-of-excellence/) - [AI Stages of Adoption Five Pillars](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-stages-of-adoption-five-pillars/) - [AI Stages of Adoption Deep Dive](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-stages-of-adoption-explainer/) - [Chief Wine Officer at Spring](https://mariothomas.com/blog/chief-wine-officer-spring/) - [AI governance and the Board](https://mariothomas.com/blog/board-ai-governance-priorities/) - [The enterprise data advantage](https://mariothomas.com/blog/enterprise-data-monetisation/) - [The future of AI expertise](https://mariothomas.com/blog/future-of-ai-expertise/) - [Measuring AI Investment Value](https://mariothomas.com/blog/measuring-ai-roi/) - [Selecting your enterprise LLM](https://mariothomas.com/blog/choosing-the-right-llm/) - [Europe's AI challenge](https://mariothomas.com/blog/europe-ai-challenge/) - [Monday.com Elevate keynote](https://mariothomas.com/blog/monday-elevate-ai-data-keynote/) - [Beyond the generative AI hype](https://mariothomas.com/blog/beyond-the-hype-generative-ai/) - [Introducing the AI Stages of Adoption](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ai-stages-of-adoption/) - [Dawn of the three-hour work week](https://mariothomas.com/blog/dawn-of-the-three-hour-work-week/) - [Harnessing AI for change](https://mariothomas.com/blog/london-school-economics-ai-board/) - [Bedrock Custom Model Import](https://mariothomas.com/blog/bedrock-custom-model-import/) - [Llama 3 on Bedrock](https://mariothomas.com/blog/llama-3-bedrock/) - [Claude 3 Opus on Bedrock](https://mariothomas.com/blog/anthropic-claude-3-opus-bedrock/) - [Executive's Guide to generative AI](https://mariothomas.com/blog/executives-guide-to-generative-ai/) - [PartyRock: Madonna](https://mariothomas.com/blog/madonna-song-to-tour/) - [Hype not hyperintelligence](https://mariothomas.com/blog/ft-generative-ai-valuation/) - [Chief Wine Officer](https://mariothomas.com/blog/chief-wine-officer/) - [Executive's Guide to Digital Workplace](https://mariothomas.com/blog/executives-guide-to-digital-workplace/) - [Change in a downturn](https://mariothomas.com/blog/organisational-change-downturn/) - [The Board in the machine](https://mariothomas.com/blog/the-board-in-the-machine/) - [The CFO and cloud transformation](https://mariothomas.com/blog/cfo/) - [IDC Multicloud Events](https://mariothomas.com/blog/idc-multicloud-fireside-2021/) - [Don't take your foot off the gas](https://mariothomas.com/blog/reinventing-without-a-road-map-foot-on-gas/) - [Podcast with Joe Daly](https://mariothomas.com/blog/cfm-finops-innovation-nationwide-joe-daly/) - [Planning a cloud migration?](https://mariothomas.com/blog/techmonitor-cloud-migration/) - [Retail Week](https://mariothomas.com/blog/retailweek/) - [Edge Markets](https://mariothomas.com/blog/edge-markets/) - [Gartner CFO Roundtable](https://mariothomas.com/blog/gartner/) - [Did Thor just visit Kowloon?](https://mariothomas.com/blog/kowloon-thor/) - [How to build a cloud business case](https://mariothomas.com/blog/zdnet/) - [Migrating to AWS](https://mariothomas.com/blog/reinvent-2016-ent212/) - [Writing your AWS cloud business case](https://mariothomas.com/blog/aws-transformation-day-london-2016/) - [£125m of ecommerce in 2012](https://mariothomas.com/blog/2012-ecommerce-125m/) - [Top 10 things to ask your ecommerce partners](https://mariothomas.com/blog/top-10-ecommerce-questions/) - [Taking the Headache out of International eCommerce](https://mariothomas.com/blog/taking-the-headache-out-of-international-ecommerce/) - [The importance of content writing](https://mariothomas.com/blog/write-on-the-importance-of-content-writing/) - [Pass it on...the wonderful world of Viral Marketing](https://mariothomas.com/blog/pass-it-on-the-wonderful-world-of-viral-marketing/) - [Credit crunch? Google doesn’t care](https://mariothomas.com/blog/google-raise-checkout-fees/) - [Why no news is bad news](https://mariothomas.com/blog/newsletters-why-no-news-is-bad-news/) - [How not to build a website](https://mariothomas.com/blog/how-not-to-build-a-website/) - [Social Media: Asset or Avoidable?](https://mariothomas.com/blog/social-media-asset-or-avoidable/) - [Credit crunch spend](https://mariothomas.com/blog/credit-crunch-affects-online-spending/) - [Going for Online Gold in 2012](https://mariothomas.com/blog/going-for-online-gold-in-2012/) - [A wilting relationship](https://mariothomas.com/blog/a-wilting-relationship/) - [Just an Illusion](https://mariothomas.com/blog/just-an-illusion/) - [IoD News March 2007](https://mariothomas.com/blog/iod-news-march-2007/) - [My Two Cents – Road Pricing](https://mariothomas.com/blog/my-two-cents-road-pricing/) - [What next for Google?](https://mariothomas.com/blog/what-next-for-google/) - [Thoughts on the LA Times sale](https://mariothomas.com/blog/thoughts-la-times-sale/) - [North West Insider Business Manual](https://mariothomas.com/blog/north-west-insider-business-manual/) - [Real Radio](https://mariothomas.com/blog/real-radio/) - [Achieving Chartered Director](https://mariothomas.com/blog/chartered-director/) - [Rumblings in the regional press](https://mariothomas.com/blog/rumblings-in-the-regional-press/) - [Diploma in Company Direction](https://mariothomas.com/blog/diploma-in-company-direction/) - [Arena Magazine (Supplement)](https://mariothomas.com/blog/arena-magazine-supplement/) - [Arena Magazine](https://mariothomas.com/blog/arena-magazine/) - [Leeds Chamber of Commerce](https://mariothomas.com/blog/leeds-chamber/) - [Leeds Media Bulletin](https://mariothomas.com/blog/leeds-media-bulletin/) - [Growing Business Magazine](https://mariothomas.com/blog/growing-business-magazine/) - [BBC Radio Leeds visits Castleton Mill](https://mariothomas.com/blog/bbc-radio-leeds-castleton-mill/)