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Digital Economy Dispatch #303 -- What Am I Worth?

Oct 11, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #303 -- What Am I Worth?

What am I worth? AI makes that question unavoidable. Professional services have priced hours, not value; now clients want AI’s savings passed on, and advisers must explain what they sell.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #302 -- What the AI Evidence Can and Cannot Tell You

Oct 4, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #302 -- What the AI Evidence Can and Cannot Tell You

Academic evidence on AI adoption is rigorous but narrow. Practice evidence is broad but harder to test. The most useful lessons lie where they meet.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #301 -- Is Your AI Deployment Running on Faith?

Sep 27, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #301 -- Is Your AI Deployment Running on Faith?

We have moved from seeing pilot trials of Microsoft Copilot to organisation-wide deployment in under two years. The evidence underneath that journey has not travelled nearly as far.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #300 -- Who Decides the Future of AI?

Sep 20, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #300 -- Who Decides the Future of AI?

A few thoughts on Cory Doctorow, Carissa Véliz and Joseph Stiglitz exploring why the AI future is being decided rather than arriving, and what that means for your next business case.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #299 -- The Return of the Software Factory

Sep 13, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #299 -- The Return of the Software Factory

The recent appearance of unsupervised AI "dark software factories" misreads both dark kitchens and the 1990s software factory movement. Agile delivery is the better starting point for putting AI to work.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #298 -- The Most Important AI Company in the World

Sep 6, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #298 -- The Most Important AI Company in the World

It’s not in California, it doesn’t build models, and it doesn’t make chips.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #297 -- What is AI For?

Aug 30, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #297 -- What is AI For?

Senior leaders are finally asking the harder question about the value of AI. The answer may be less about seeing further, and more about seeing themselves in a new light.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #296 -- Three Paradoxes of AI Adoption

Aug 2, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #296 -- Three Paradoxes of AI Adoption

Three paradoxes are derailing AI adoption. AI helps most where you are already expert. Supervising it demands more skill, not less. And the productivity gains arrive last, not first.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
Digital Economy Dispatch #295 --  Rethought, Not Restructured: Britain's AI Strategy After DSIT

Jul 26, 2026

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Digital Economy Dispatch #295 -- Rethought, Not Restructured: Britain's AI Strategy After DSIT

Andy Burnham scrapped DSIT on day one. That's two restructurings of Britain's AI machinery in three years, with no rethink of what the strategy is for. The real signal comes in the Budget, not the org chart.

Alan Brown
Alan Brown
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