Author: Peter Brookes-Smith
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Lessons in life from an ai agent
I’ve always been passionate about data and the way it can help drive our businesses forward. A few years ago I took the next logical step with a deep dive into ai. It was part of my personal programme of smashing myself into new ideas (a key ingredient in our ability to innovate on demand). I…
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Five tools for innovation mastery
It’s a curse or a blessing but I’m unable to switch off the part of my mind that searches for new and better ways of doing things (spoiler alert: it’s a blessing!). As a young boy on the farm, through school and university and in all of the jobs I’ve ever done, the search has…
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Value for money
A version of this article was first published in The Parliamentary Review which is a guide to best practice for industry and is co chaired by Lord Pickles and Lord Blunkett. Achieving outstanding value for money cuts across every part of operations, from procurement to HR and everything in between. The optimal use of every…
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Award entry for European CEO Magazine 2017
A couple of years ago, someone nominated me for an award in The European CEO Magazine. I’d never heard of the magazine before and they asked me to submit my answers to five questions as part of their judging process. I enjoy writing so it didn’t seem like much of a hardship. A few days…
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Darwin and The Travelling Salesperson
This is part of an occasional series taking a light hearted look at ai and how it can be applied to real world (sometimes!) situations. If a salesperson has to visit all the cities in their patch and then return home every night, how could they work out the shortest route? The Travelling Salesperson is…
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What is this DevOps thing?
In late 2014/15, I was interested in the concept of DevOps. There were a lot of inconsistencies in the published material so I went on my own journey of discovery to clarify my thoughts. I published this blog in February of 2016. It focuses more on the philosophy or mindset that will lead to a…