AI is moving fast. Really fast. But in many organisations, the way work moves from an idea to actual value still feels slow. AI can speed up analysis, design, coding, testing and evidence creation. But if the output then sits in a queue, waits for the next governance forum, or gets passed through another manual hand-off, a lot of that potential disappears. The pattern we keep seeing is that the technology is accelerating, but the system of work around it often isn't. So, the

What a day! From the moment the doors opened to the last roundtable conversation still buzzing over coffee, Sooner Safer Happier LIVE 2026 felt like a room of people who've been working on similar challenges and at last got to compare notes. As one attendee put it: “This is the only event like this I've been to EVER.” We heard from a 15,000-person US financial services firm founded in 1948, a national tax authority collecting almost £1 trillion a year, a mobile network born

Earlier this year, at our Strategy to Execution Forum in Asia-Pacific, we asked a group of leaders a simple question: Where are you most confident in your organisation’s ability to move from strategy to execution? What emerged was what we started calling the messy middle. Leaders were relatively confident at either end. They could articulate strategy and they had established delivery practices. But confidence dropped when we got into everything required to connect the two: un