CEZ Consulting
Essays
Longer-form, practitioner-grounded pieces that apply the operating-model lens to the questions executives are actually facing, and show the structure underneath the symptom.
Locally Rational, Globally Expensive
Every function adopts AI for the same class of problem, under a different name, bought and governed separately. Each decision is locally rational. The aggregate is structural debt nobody chose.
14 Jun 2026
Narrative vs Structure
Faced with a structural problem, organisations change the narrative, not the structure. AI is the first technology fast enough to tell the two apart.
14 Jun 2026
The Fallacy of ROI
The ROI question is not a measurement problem. It is a comprehension problem dressed as a financial one, and it works as a brake that defers commitment without anyone having to say no.
14 Jun 2026
The Production Gap
Enterprise AI rarely fails on technical merit. It stalls at the boundary between experiment and operation, where an industrial-era operating model meets a system it was never designed to govern. The gap is structural, and it is the gap that decides the return.
14 Jun 2026