It was great to host Phil Le-Brun at the LSE last night – though sad to be his missing co-author Jana Werner. They were presenting their new book “The Octopus Organisation” https://www.theoctopusorganization.com/ which recounts a number of anti-patterns organisations must overcome to face the complexity of modern AI led business. Jana and Phil are both executives in residence at Amazon […]
It was great to host Phil Le-Brun at the LSE last night – though sad to be his missing co-author Jana Werner. They were presenting their new book “The Octopus Organisation” https://www.theoctopusorganization.com/ which recounts a number of anti-patterns organisations must overcome to face the complexity of modern AI led business. Jana and Phil are both executives in residence at Amazon […]
https://ischannel.lse.ac.uk/23/volume/19/issue/1 This editions’ editorial (By Gonzalo San Roman) For the 19th edition of the iSCHANNEL the journal explores the dynamic intersection between emerging digital technologies and human behaviour, through rigorous and critical examination of how these reshape ethics, governance, and human agency. Reflecting the journal’s longstanding commitment to critical inquiry and contemporary research, this year the journal brings […]
https://ischannel.lse.ac.uk/23/volume/19/issue/1 This editions’ editorial (By Gonzalo San Roman) For the 19th edition of the iSCHANNEL the journal explores the dynamic intersection between emerging digital technologies and human behaviour, through rigorous and critical examination of how these reshape ethics, governance, and human agency. Reflecting the journal’s longstanding commitment to critical inquiry and contemporary research, this year the journal brings […]
appy to share that our paper “The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem” co-authored with Roser Pujadas and Erika Valderrama has been published in Research Policy
I am really excited to be a co-chair of the following academic workshop at ESSEC & Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. Please join us if you can! AI and the Artificialities of Intelligence: What matters in and for organizing? Call for papers 14th Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) Workshop #OAP2024 When: June 6th and 7th 2024 Where: […]
The following light-hearted script was for an evening talk at the London Stock Exchange for Enterprise Technology Meetup in June 2023. The speech is based on research with Dr Roser Pujadas of UCL and Dr Erika Valderamma of UMEA in Sweden. —– Last Tuesday the news went wild as industry and AI leaders warned that […]
The following light-hearted script was for an evening talk at the London Stock Exchange for Enterprise Technology Meetup in June 2023. The speech is based on research with Dr Roser Pujadas of UCL and Dr Erika Valderamma of UMEA in Sweden. —– Last Tuesday the news went wild as industry and AI leaders warned that […]
So where should a CxO be spending their time when evaluating enterprise AI? I would argue they should seek to evaluate both the AI product and their organisation’s “AI kindergarten” in which the “AI product” will grow? 
Yesterday’s FT provides a fascinating article (available here) on the role algorithms may increasingly plan in price-rigging and collusion. While previously humans have colluded to fix prices, today’s algorithms which seek profit maximization may end up colluding in a way which is hard to detect and difficult to stop. Indeed a recent OECD report states: […]
