In What If Knowledge Was Free? I explored the idea that AI may be dramatically changing the economics of knowledge. The article was really a thought experiment. If knowledge becomes increasingly abundant, where does value move? If organisations no longer need to pay primarily for access to knowledge, what are they actually paying for?

This blog explores how AI and networks may be changing the way organisations access external capability. As AI makes knowledge more accessible and networks make expertise and experience easier to share, organisations may increasingly gain access to capability through connected ecosystems rather than traditional proprietary models. The diagram poses a simple question: What if knowledge was free? and explores the potential shift from ownership to access.

Most organisations treat AI productivity, experimentation and transformation as separate strategies. I believe they're different stages of the same journey, and the organisations making the leap are the ones that find a way to bridge the Missing Middle between them.

How I built a 200-asset AI-governance programme with Microsoft Cowork in a single month, and what it taught me. This field report covers the architecture and workflows that made it possible, the real numbers (quality, cost, and how it stacks up against a two-to-three person-year traditional build), the human craft AI can't replace, an honest log of what broke, and where I think Microsoft should take the platform next.

Cowork is MINDBLOWING but there are some risks! I’ve been experimenting with how I can use it to transform an end to end process to aid me develop the Empower Your World structure and content using Reference guardrails, Skills, and collaborating with it - This is about the Why, what and how…

Microsoft licensing pages are marketing — until you've actually switched a licence on in your own tenant and used it for real, you don't actually know what it does.

In March 2026 Microsoft a new enterprise license - the E7 license - It reached ‘General Availability’ GA for organisations to buy and use on the 1st May… But what is it? What does it do? Who actually has it and has used it…. Me!

Come with me and learn with me through hands on configuration and experimentation!

When rolling out AI we need to establish the right mindsets to be effective but also to ensure we’re maximising the value of people as well as of AI. Just because we CAN use AI for almost all use cases doesn’t mean that we SHOULD!

This post explores this concept through 4 patterns, and defines a Human Advantage Framework to give a way of looking at how humans + AI sit on a range of Assist through Enhance & Amplify, to Substitute and Dependence.

There are an increasing number of Copilots with varying capabilities and strengths and surfaced in different areas of the Microsoft platform.

This post provides a simplified view of these and explains how they are used ‘in the flow of work' - Structured, Targeted, Delegated, Directive.

How do we use M365 Copilot to take the learning from last year, bring them together with my goals and ambitions for this year, and maximise the value and impact I deliver through my priorities and objectives?

Let’s experiment with M365 Copilot to get ready for 2026, to maximise our impact and achieve our goals!

This post builds on my last one describing the risk anatomy of an AI use case. It takes that way of describing the risk of a use case and builds a scalable governance model and standards around it to balance that mitigation of risk with enablement of people to achieve value!

How might we describe the risk associated with a use case that uses a single, or multiple, AI ‘units’. I started by trying to break down different parts of an AI Use Case. This post starts to explore that challenge!

Unexpected data was found in a data source associated with a Power Platform solution… Bug in the system? Hackers?

How did it get there? How can we mitigate it and ensure that in this, and our other solutions, we’re using the right design patterns to protect our data and processes?

In this post I’ll explore what happened and how it can be mitigated!

We’ve heard of Copilot… A LOT! over the last year or so but there’s another flavour of it that’s arrived… The Agent… This may conjure up images of James Bond… Or Agent Smith from the Matrix… And in reality they’re kinda a combination of the two… but a bit friendlier than Agent Smith! They’re here to help us be EVEN MORE effective!

I've broken down the key components and described how I currently understand them to work with an example of how this could be used in the real world. come and have a read!

One of the challenges with Power Platform licensing is how to bring the different licenses together to achieve your use case in the most efficient way. Depending on the requirements of your use case, and how you therefore architect your solution, you could have different licensing options! What do I mean? Well let me show you…. with some pictures!

Coilot Studio and licensing is the next piece of the broader Power Platform puzzle to explore - What does it mean? What does it cover? What sort of use cases might it apply to. In this post I explore it and try to explain it and the naming convention.

One of everyone’s favourite Power Platform topics is that of licensing and more specifically… HOW DO I TRANSLATE THIS LICENSING GUIDE INTO HUMAN LANGUAGE?

One area that’s not so clear for people is understanding what Power App or Power Automate licenses are needed in which scenario how to apply it and which licenses are needed for their use case.

In this blog post you’ll understand more!

Security is one of the most important considerations when enabling the Power Platform in your organisation. In this post I’m going to give you an overview of the broad scope of different Security controls we can implement, and some suggestions on how these can be layered on top of our scalable governance model to take a ‘risk based approach’ to the different ideas and use cases being implemented across our organisation!

For some experimentation may conjure up images of an insane scientist mixing together random connectors in the hope of finding a solution to all of an organisation’s challenges…

for others it might be a more regulated scientific method to ensure safe and repeatable results that can be scaled in a controlled and effective way!

In this post we’ll explore how we might unlock experimentation with Power Platform connectors!

Implementing governance through Platforms, Processes, and People is the key to enabling success and value with Power Platform. But How?

In this blog post I’ll break this down, align it to our Scalable Governance model, and walk you through a scenario on how we can integrate our thinking around these governance elements to enable our business.

There are a lot of new ways to manage your Power Platform estate coming from Microsoft - Default Environment Routing is one of these - Providing every maker with their own developer environment rather than using the shared default environment…

But how might you use it? What are the benefits and complexities? Should you use it? We’ll explore that together in this post!