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Our blog is where ideas meet experience, where we talk about the real barriers, the bright breakthroughs, and the human side of AI and analytics.
Power of 3 - When Business Analysis, AI Consultancy and Data Expertise Come Together

Most companies no longer need to be convinced of AI’s potential. The more difficult question is how to turn that potential into something people can rely on in their daily work ... read more

Founder Story: 
HICO VAULT CHAT

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how businesses operate, but for many organizations, cost, accessibility, and control remain major barriers. Bastian Lossen, CCO at HICO Group, decided to tackle ... read more

Bringing AI to Life

When small and mid-sized enterprises talk about "going digital" or "bringing in AI", it usually starts with genuine progress: new tools deliver quick wins, dashboards light up, and first automations save time. Yet after the initial ... read more

AI-Ready BI: The More Powerful BI Becomes, the Less Ambiguous It Can Afford to Be

I have spent a large part of my professional life thinking about reporting. And the longer I do this, the more convinced I become ... read more

AI Adoption in Banking: Why Culture Is the Real Barrier 

Banks taught people that change means cuts. Then they wondered why nobody would touch the AI. For most of my years in banking, culture was not a values poster. It was ... read more

AI in Wealth Management: The Economics of Advice Are Being Rewritten.

For a few years, the loud version of the story was simple. AI writes the plan. The relationship manager becomes optional. ... read more

Client Focus in Banking: Why Digitisation Alone Is Not Enough

In a world of agents, automation and trigger-based service, it would be a missed opportunity to stop at fixing the account opening flow. Technology now allows banks to redesign much larger parts of the relationship ... read more

AI Risk in Banking: What Jamie Dimon’s Initiative Cannot Fix

Jamie Dimon is personally recruiting bank and technology leaders into an expanded industry group to tackle AI risks. The initiative grows out of the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure and already reaches more than ... read more

Institutional Knowledge in Banking: Why AI Makes It More Valuable

General knowledge is no longer scarce. Anyone with a decent model can access macro analysis, sector overviews, historical data and coherent reasoning in seconds. The old arbitrage on publicly ... read more

AI in Sales:​ The Signal Got You the Meeting. It Will Not Close the Quarter.

The first call went well. The signal was real. A new head of data. A second visit to the site. A comment on a post that was not polite, it was specific. The meeting landed inside a week. Everyone left the call with the feeling that this ... read more

Shadow AI - Hidden Risks

In the day-to-day operations of many, AI applications have long been in use, but often privately. Employees use tools like ChatGPT or other chatbots to be more effective, test ideas, or simplify routine tasks, usually with the best of intentions. What is often overlooked ... read more

Signal-Based Selling: Why AI Should Own the Signal, Not the Outreach 

Most companies now say they do signal-based selling. What they usually mean is this: a vendor sends a weekly list of accounts that “showed intent”, an AI writes a first line, and a seller sends it before the coffee is cold. ... read more